extrernal hard drives

[ksaajasto]

as the topic said, i'm looking to get an external hard drive, but i don't really have any idea what brands are reliable or not, thanks for help in advance.

 

[agathodaimon]

I've always liked Western Digital's offerings...

Or you could buy a hard drive by itself, then take your pick of enclosures at newegg.

 

[coupland]

I bought a Fantom G-Force MegaDisk 1TB External. Cheaper storage you won't find. Failed after about a month and took 500 gigs of data with it. Cracked the case open and found two 500 Gb Seagate drives inside, so it's certainly not awful components. Maybe I just got (un)lucky.

(As an aside, I plugged the drive that didn't fail internally in my PC and managed to recover all my data.)

 

[ksaajasto]

how expensive are enclosures? thanks for the responses

 

[agathodaimon]

Oh... Enclosures can be $15 or they can be $75... Just depends on how fancy you want to get.

All I wanted was an on/off one that looked sleek. Cost me about $25 shipped and is passively cooled.

It's similar to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817145343

 

[imported_wired247]

I would recommend anything you like with 5 year warranty.

 

[ksaajasto]

okay, thanks again for the replies. wow... a 75 $ enclosure... thats ridiculous.