F900

I want to buy one from Dell.com but from the reviews of the top brands, alot overheat and end up failing. I need 200-250Gb

Just want to see if any you guys have had any luck with them

pgatour1

oooo good post...I need one as well.

I don't want to spend more than $100 though...so I wouldn't get one with as much space.

anothercls

I have a 250GB maxtor with firewire and usb 2.0, it is used nearly daily for backups at the office, usually about 15GB transfers to it. I have never had it overheat and it has been fine with staying in my car for a couple days in the winter and being plugged in and working immediately.

We paid nearly $300.00 for it two years ago.

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Zapata

Lacie 160gb....it rocks I love it..........it's loud as hell.

oneilc

I also have a 250G maxtor. No problems yet. Paid $180 for it

pgatour1

perfect...I have 5 computers with different data on each one...and I want to put it all to one portable Hard drive to move it around the house.

thanks

I am so cheap lately.

Red-CL

I got one too.

It's 120gb I think it's by Lacie.

Haven't had a problem yet.

Sarlacc

My La Cie shit the bed after 2 years...drive was still had to get a new enclosure for it.

also have a 250gb custom drive with triple interface (firewire 2) - i want to get another one.

and my ipod for smaller things.

Tom Blasing

Can any of those be set up to do mirroring as your working? In place of taking time to back up once a day...

F900

With Maxtor's drive yes, all u do it press 1 button on the ext drive and it backs it up

slo007

My brother has one, and he really likes it. But I'm not sure what model.

Try reading the reviews here (look for hdds) or here.

nahooneyya

i got a 160 Gig Seagate external harddrive~ i love mine to death!

JJ4Short

I just bought a 40 gb laptop hard drive ($40) and a IDE--->USB External drive case ($20) off ebay

Whiskers

Put all my spares in a drive enclosure from Compusa.

Rock2534

have you used it yet? wonder if you will notice any slowness since those laptop drives usually have lower rpms??

plethera1

I would suggest an internal drive with a drive enclosure like wsklar said. It usually is a lot cheaper and works just as well.

It also gives you the ability to buy a DVD burner,CD burner and/or another hard drive that you could use with the enclosure as well. Swapping may be a little bit of a pain but the cash you will save on all the external devices would make it worth it until you bought additional drive enclosures. Also, you could use the internal hard drive to upgrade a destop computer some day when you want more space on your external hard drive.

joeshmoe

That's what I did. Purchased a 200Gb Western Digital internal HD (about $120) and a external case ($30). Works like a charm.

zamo

500 GB Lacie Hard Drive with USB 2.0 / Firewire connection

It died 2 weeks before the 1 year warranty expired.

I should be receiving a replacement today.

Doc.Booty

We have a thread on this every week. Search for them, there's tons of good information already out there.

Dan Martin

Just buy an external 3.5" enclosure and a regular hard drive in whatever size you want and pocket the $80-$100 difference that you would pay maxtor or lacie.

I put together a 160gb unit for just over $100 US about a month ago.

bigman

get yourself an external case with usb 2.0 or firewire and then purchase a seperate hard drive with an 8 mb buffer. You will not regret it. The cost will be cheaper depending where you shop.

havokgroup

I have a 120 gig externa usb drive. I use the to store my ghost images and porn

HQuakers

<---- Got an 80gig maxtor with USB2.0...no problems. The fan is pretty quiet and I dont have any complaints.

RedRSXGrrl

I have one 120GB Lacie Firewire and one 160GB Buffalo (weird brand but there was an $80 rebate) USB 2.0. I prefer the Lacie one because it reads filenames better.

soopa

I've a Lacie d2 Extreme Triple Interface and a older SmartDisk FireLite... both dope.

Lacie is sexy