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Premade external hard drive or internal hard drive with enclosure?
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My WD mybook external hardrive died, and now i need a new one for my laptop (which has th elaptop firewire conneciton, which isn't the same as the pc firewire connection that most external harddrives come with, thus need to use usb) So I'm thinking of getting the following toshiba 320 gb external ( see link below). However I have also been considering getting a regular internal harddrive and enclosure. would this be better in terms of reliability and speed? How difficult is this to set up? If this is better any recommendations for a 300-500 gb drive and enclosure? Thanks. http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HDDR32...0686&s r=1-11 |
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Premade external hard drive or internal hard drive with enclosure?
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" wrote: My WD mybook external hardrive died, and now i need a new one for my laptop (which has th elaptop firewire conneciton, which isn't the same as the pc firewire connection that most external harddrives come with, thus need to use usb) So I'm thinking of getting the following toshiba 320 gb external ( see link below). However I have also been considering getting a regular internal harddrive and enclosure. would this be better in terms of reliability and speed? How difficult is this to set up? If this is better any recommendations for a 300-500 gb drive and enclosure? It's very easy to grab an external enclosure and set it up, however, a lot of the cheapo adapters have heating problems, so I'd generally recommend buying a single piece unit if that is how you intend to use it. Your local market may be different, but the last time I priced it out, the single unit was cheaper then buying parts. |
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Premade external hard drive or internal hard drive with enclosure?
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: Hi, My WD mybook external hardrive died, and now i need a new one for my laptop (which has th elaptop firewire conneciton, which isn't the same as the pc firewire connection that most external harddrives come with, thus need to use usb) So I'm thinking of getting the following toshiba 320 gb external ( see link below). However I have also been considering getting a regular internal harddrive and enclosure. would this be better in terms of reliability and speed? How difficult is this to set up? If this is better any recommendations for a 300-500 gb drive and enclosure? Thanks. I've used build yourself external cases and have two pre-built external HDDs too. The thing with build your own is that the cheap cases I used were a bit flaky while the pre-built have been rock solid and it is actually cheaper to buy pre-built than build your own. I have 1TB Comstar and 500GB Acomdata. Acomdata is only $89.99 for 500GB model and has both USB 2.0 and eSATA. I see at Newegg they have a model with USB 2.0 and Firewire too. You can also get a model with 1TB for $139.99 at neweeg that has USB 2.0 and eSATA. Acomdata is good in my experience and I expect cheaper than that Toshiba model you are looking at. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822216035 |
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