How are USB hard-drives, and can anyone recommend any?

[Informant X]

I'm looking into gettin a 80 gig external USB hd or so. How are they? How long do they last? Anyone have recommendations?

 

[PliotronX]

I can't imagine how long it would take to copy 80Gigs through a pipe that small =-O

I'm guessing since it's a hard drive, it's probably like any other in terms of reliability. But performance is going to be down the crapper.

 

[Gunbuster]

Sloooooow

 

[pay]

i hope your not running at a high fsb

 

[NFS4]

I would NOT buy any USB hard drive that doesn't use the USB 2.0 spec.

 

[Pariah]

Buy an IDE drive and a $100 firewire enclosure. Firewire card too, if you need one ($25).

 

[gogeeta13]

I would get a audigy for the firwire, then get an enclosure

 

[Joony]

i have a 10 gig USB HD and its pretty good, transfering 600 meg files take maybe 5 minutes...iam using a laptop USB enclosure with a lappy HD...

 

[Informant X]

This is for someone who has a laptop. So he needs USB.

 

[anthrax]

the new laptops these day do come with fire wire...don't they.....check has he/she got it...
USB is not that fast.....
sure u can do 600 megs in 5 min (300 sec) ? wasn't the max transfer rate like 1.5 Mb/s?

 

[Joony]

wait, actually its more like 9 minutes, i was just sending a file...

 

[Pariah]

Many current laptops have firewire built in. Even if it doesn't, you can buy a cardbus firewire card from numerous manufacturers.