External Hard Dive

External drives are nice, the speed is decent provided that you use firewire or usb 2 (most common). On older machines with usb 1.1 is a pain in the ass.

Congrats on the purchase, I hope it serves its purpose well.


I'm planning on buying one too, but not as a finished product. I'm going to pick one of those external cases and buy an internal hdd to put it in.
 
I was lead to an IDE/SATA USB adapter for cheap once, but at the time I didn't have the money to buy one. Would be really useful right about now, I just don't remember where I found out about it.
 
I'm still using and old Bytecc enclosure, and have a ide 160 in it ATM.
I use it mostly for storing image backups.
It's kinda slow...not as bad with usb 2.0, but dawg slow in the old mode.
I can get 2-3 gigs transfered in 5-10 mins.

If I have big big backups, I just remove the drive, and plug it in my main rig.
 
I bought a cheap enclosre ay Circuit City & added a cheap HDD. Less than 80 bucks for about 200GB
 
I've got a Maxtor OneTouch that I adore. It's a little bulky, but it was 80GB for $40. Not a bad deal. I sure was glad I had it when my laptop's hard drive fried.
 
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