Can anyone recomend a good Xternal Harddrive?

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

I just got my utorrent working how i like it and i am filling up my computer extremely quickly. I have a few thousand songs on in windows media player and currently 9 discographies on utorrent. What would be a good external source to put all my music on? I am looking on a budget.... under $150 i guess??

Something that i might be able to take out and hook up to a car HU maybe?? I have never looked into anything in the computer area so i am a total noob and do not know what is good or bad.

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[PioneerSPL1990 10+ year member]

seagate 500 gig at curcuit city should do it. there around 79.99 i think.

 

[svarasnj 10+ year member]

here it is my friend 120 shipped for 1.5TB. Thats going to be enough for quite some time

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-SlickDeals&cm_mmc=AFC-SlickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16822148357

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

http://dealnews.com/search.html?search=external+hard+drive&x=0&y=0

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

western digital has some decent prices as well

 

[brynm 10+ year member]

Man look at the reviews on Seagates 54% gave a 1 star.

Look into Lacie drives, they are supposed to be one of the most reliable drives out. You can get a 750GB for 90 on newegg, or a 2TB for under 200.

 

[nineball 10+ year member]

Look into Lacie drives, they are supposed to be one of the most reliable drives out. You can get a 750GB for 90 on newegg, or a 2TB for under 200.

lacie drives kick ***. i had a 40g i used to dj from and ran it for 3 ears with never a problem. sold it and changed to the 80g, ran that for 5 years and never a problem. now i use it in the car (bus powered ftmfw).

 

[geowick07 10+ year member]

I agree with the folks that mentioned Western Digital. I just had to tear apart a Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 320 GB because the power supply/brain over heated. Drive still works, though. I got very lucky. It is now an internal drive, lol!

But yes, try to go with someone other than Seagate.

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[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

pretty much any external that fits your needs and budget will work fine since there are only a handful of hard drive manufacturers anyway(seagate/maxtor, western digital, hitachi/ibm, fujitsu, samsung). no matter what brand you buy it will have one of those drives in it anyway

the 1.5tb Seagates have some mega firmware issues so i would stay away from them on that drive, otherwise they are a solid choice

if you dont need more than 500gb storage look for a 2.5" portable drive

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

I'm a big fan of Lacie and Fantom drives...you can find real good deals all over the web, dealnews which has been posted is a great source...buy.com, tigerdirect and newegg.com as well...

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

I like my Western Digital 500gb

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

I have dealt with maxtors and they are junk if you are going to get one get a western digital

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

The new 2TB Caviar Green looks like one hell of a drive.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

i have never bought anything than 2.5" externals, but the 160gb 2.5" seagate external i have has been working fine

i also have a "JBOD" setup that uses 4 seagate drives(2x500gb+2x640gb) and those have given me no problems in the few years i have had them

i also have a 1gb seagate ES.2 drive which has been working great for about six months

i also have a 30gb OCZ SSD drive and i would highly recommend it. the thing is quiet, cool and fast(and i was using a 10k raptor before it)

the only drives i have had problems with lately are two 160gb western digital drives which both developed data errors, but the RMA process is great through WD

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

Thanks guys, i am just trying to see what to stray away from because i have never bought anything for my computer before besides my wireless mouse and keyboard. They had a 1TB for $100 @ the local staples. I think i might settle for that.