Tech help

[ivyfic]

Anybody know anything about external hard drives? What should I be looking for?

Comments

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

"What should I be looking for?"
That's an open-ended question--what do you want? What are you planning to use it for? Is it going to be stationary or do you want something portable?

[embroiderama]

I bought this one about a month ago, and I've been totally happy with it.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot of friends have problems w/ La Cie, so I'd stay away from those if you can.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Depends on the space you need and the space it will occupy. You shouldn't be paying more than $0.40 cents per gig, probably less, now. I think I got my 250 gig for like $70, and even that's on the more expensive end.

Western Digital is good. I like them. They also have a "my book" that looks kinda like a book. But if you want it solely for vanity reasons, might I suggest the Lego brick model? I don't know that that's the one my roommie has, but there's something like it out there.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

And speaking as a contrary voice, I have a LaCie rugged drive, which has small capacity for the money, only 80GB, but my husband dropped it on a pointy hard surface that dented the case but it still works fine.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, ten minutes left in the work day and nothing to do. What do you want from me? I just need a supplementary back-up system. Reliable redundancy is really all I'm looking for. I just figured people would have stories.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Fight! Fight!

[justcomeinalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah,gryphon's right, you need to be more specific. If you really don't care that much, I'd go for LACIE. They work great. I've been using a Lacie drive with 250 gigs for the past year and a half to store all my movies and TV shows and I've had absolutely no problems with it. Pretty standard plug-n-play.