Thanks for all the advice. I purchased a Seagate FreeAgent Desk External
(3.5" 500gb) and a FreeAgent Go (2.5" 320gb). The latter was an
afterthought since these drives aren't near as expensive as I thought they'd
be and will just be used occasionally for transporting info to other
computers.
Monica
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> Monica wrote:
>
>> I haven't purchased a hdd in nearly 4 years. The last one I bought was a
>> Seagate Barracuda, SATA, 7200rpm. What kind of specs should I be looking
>> for in a fast and reliable drive? It's been suggested to me to buy an
>> internal drive and an external housing. Drive warranty is longer. Is
>> this
>> a good idea? Would there tend to be more of a conflict with the drive
>> and
>> housing than if I bought a dedicated external drive? I'm thinking in the
>> range of a 500GB drive.
>> Thanks,
>> Monica
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>
> The advise I give is to buy 1TB drives like the Samsung F1, put inside
> a external drive box with USB 2 link and then back up everything, and then
> keep incremental back ups and then when its full or one month has
> passed, put that 1TB drive and drive box and get another set to do the
> same.
> Thats very cheap option compared to what the data is valued at.
> Buy the external USB 2 good quality drive caddy and drives separately -
> the
> reason is that some of these external caddys with drives prefitted tend to
> be on the slow/inferior side and until you open it or have a second
> opinion
> of what is inside, you may be buying into sloppy disk that gonna cost
> a lot of time and/or money.
>
> To be extra safe you might want a Linux PC to connect the drive caddy
> and share it out with Samba so that Linux and Windopws PCs can connect
> and backup data into it. This is a lot safer than connecting an
> external caddy to windummy PCs - a good chance of major corruption
> and loosing the entire drive if the USB cable is disturbed, inserted
> too slow into a PC, or removed too slowly from the USB socket.
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