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    Best External Hard Drives

    Alright well I'm a fan of External Hard Drives and curious what one's you guys all recommend - like - use quite often.
    I use:
    -Seagate 75gb small one.
    -Western Digital My Book Essential 2.0 [500gb]
    I use the My Book for backing up all my web

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    I'm having trouble(s) with my pc right now, so I don't have mine plugged in. But 2 of my many PC's use backup hdd's.
    I use the 1tb(1000gig) Maxtor STM310004SSA20G-RK extrnal.
    It is very nice, very quick relay. It doesn't matter how big your external is, that all depends on what your storing at 1 given time.
    What you want to look at is the RPM's, mine is a 7200 RPM. You also want to look at the Cache and Network card. You should make sure you have a 16mb cache atleast, and atleast a 100mbps network card capability. Mine is a 16mb cache, with a 1000mbps network.
    Hope this helps!
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    If you have the money, mine only cost me $300 for each.





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    500GB Lacie Rugged hardrive.
    Pretty fast for a 5400RPM drive, it's got Firewire 800, and feels... chuckable. and I dont need to worry about it getting damaged.
    - looks cool too.





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    lol@freebase. I recommend a 7200RPM all the way around '
    How much did you pay for yours?





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    140 on dabs.co.uk..





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    That's like 170 us not bad at all





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    Yea JustinSmall I actually was looking at that Maxtor 1TB one the other day and was very convinced to buy it, think I may soon.

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    I have various 120 GB to 320 GB unbranded ones. On 22nd of Nov I will have Seagate - FreeAgent Xtreme 1.5TB External eSATA/FireWire/USB 2.0 Hard Drive. This one I am getting for $229.99 from bestbuy.





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    Good to hear brandon, I highly recommend it! You will be pleased with it I am sure.





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    I have had several WD's fail on me quite quickly - Seagate seems to be pretty reliable.





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    I've got a Lacie and a Freecom external hard drive. Both function quite well, although I think the Freecom performs a bit better.





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    welling Guest
    i prefer Seagate

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    I prefer maxtor, so I did some google searching. Like any other computer hardware out there, it was a mixed reveiw. I did read something about maxtor using seagate technology So, hmm dunno!
    I think they are both great, but I would take Maxtor. It all depends on the persons own stand point though.





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