Re: About external hard drives


"Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" <Ken_Bland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm ready to buy an external hard drive and there are three office
supply/computer stores here offering 500GB units for about the same
price, $80-90, made by Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate. (Maybe
Seagate and Maxtor are the same company now; the Seagate box says "Maxtor
technology" in one corner.)

Would anyone with experience care to recommend one of these over the
other? (I know that two of them claim a 5-year warranty.)


$80-90 sounds like a very good price, but I just wanted to offer another
alternative you should consider.

An external drive is nothing but a regular internal IDE drive mounted in
an external box with a USB connection. Besides choosing an external dive,
you could also choose to buy an internal drive and an external box. You'd
have to mount the drive in the box yourself, but it's extremely easy to
do, and takes under five minutes even if you're all thumbs.

You may not beat that $80-90 price (an external box is usually around
$20US), but I think it's worth your while to see what you can buy like
that and compare models, specs, prices, etc.



My sincerest thanks to each of you. After my original post I spent much of
the afternoon looking around for others' comments on various sites. No one
manufacturer made a product that everyone endorsed, but there seem to be
fewer objections and more recommendations for Western Digital than the
others. And yes, I learned that Seagate and Maxtor have become one company.
I had neglected IOmega, although the name was quite familiar to me.

Once again, thank you all.

Ken Bland


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