Re: External Hard Drive

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Examples:

Maxtor OneTouch II
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.ba88f6d7cf664718376049b291346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Products/External%20Hard%20Drives/OneTouch%20II%20Family/Maxtor%20OneTouch%20II%20FireWire%20and%20USB

Western Digital Dual-Option Media Center
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=77

Where to Buy
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=414

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"denisedenise" wrote:

| I want to install/connect a 200 GB or a 300GB external hard drive to my
| computer. I download many mp3's, mpeg's, and other video clips that I want
| to store in it. I've searched around the internet and eBay and the ones that
| I like have the following features: USB 2.0 Cable A-B (data transfer rate up
| to 480Mbps) or IDE to USB 2.0 and Firewire, 16MB buffer, 7200 rotational
| speed (high performance for PCs / Mac and entry-level ATA servers, simple
| plug and play installation, seek time 9 ms, interface Ultra ATA/100, can be
| used with any brand of 3.5-inch internal IDE drives, supports up to UDMA/100
| - No Max Hard Drive RPM, and it will allow multiple number of exernal drives
| to my computer. The requirements of these hard drives are: 1. PC: Must have
| Windows . . . 2000XP Pro, 2. 1 USB 2.0 port (download compatible with USB
| 1.1), 3. Windows 2000XP Pro does not require any drivers.
|
| I don't know if they would be compatible with my computer nor do I know the
| name of a very good brand. It will get a lot of use.
|
| I thought I'd give you all of the info that I could find about my computer
| in case it's needed (sorry for the overload of info):
|
| It has an AMD Duron Processor, 945 MHz, 256 MB of RAM, Windows 200XP Pro V
| 2002, SP2.
|
| Additional info:
| 1. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC
| 2. Disk Drives: IOMEGA ZIP 100, Maxtor 63040L0, WDC WD800JB-00ETA0
| 3. Display adapters: RADEON 8500 / RADEON 8500 LE (Microsoft Corporation)
| 4. DVD/CD-ROM drives: TSSTcorp CSW/DVD TS-H492A
| 5. Standard floppy disk controller
| 6. Floppy disc drive
| 7. IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers: Primary IDE Channel, Secondary IDE Channel,
| SiS PCI IDE Controller
| 8. Network adapter: SiS 900 PCE Fast Ethernet Adapter (Speedstream 5100 -
| 4 lights)
| 9. Ports (COM & LPT): Communications Port (COM1), Communications Port
| (COM2), Printer Port (LPT1)
| 10. Sound, video and game controllers: a. Audio Codecs, b. C-Media AC97
| Audio Device, c. Legacy Audio Drivers, d. Legacy Video Capture Devices, e.
| Media Control Devices, f. Video Codecs
| 10. Storage volumes: Generic volume
| 11. System devices:
| a. ACPI Fixed Feature Button
| b. ACPI Sleep Button
| c. Direct memory access controller
| d. ISAPNP Read Data Port
| e. Microcode Update Device
| f. Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
| g. Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver
| h. Numeric data processor
| i. PCI bus
| j. Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator
| k. SIS PCI to ISA bridge
| l. SIS to AGP Controller
| m. Sis735/733 Host CPU Bridge
| n. System CMOS/real time clock
| o. System speaker
| p. System timer
| q. Terminal Server Device Redirector
| 12. Universal Serial Bus Controllers
| a. SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
| b. SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
| c. USB Root Hub
| d. USB Root Hub
| e. USB Root Hub
| f. USB Root Hub
| g. USB Root Hub
| h. VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Companion Controller
| i. VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Companion Controller
| j. VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller
|
| 13. My c drive has 20GB and I have a separate internal 80GB hard drive.
| Both are almost full and I'm planning on downloading a lot more files.
|
| I have 2 questions:
|
| 1. Would the type of external hard drives stated above be compatible with my
| computer?
|
| 2. What is a very good name brand?
|
| I would understand that the second question is a matter of opinion but there
| may be some brands that are known to not be good or have been noted to have
| problems.
|
| I also understand that you may or may not want to deal with name brands on
| an open forum such as this.
|
| If you would prefer to respond by email, my email address is
| denisedenise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx I shall not hold anyone responsible for any and
| all opinions that he/she may state. I'm a baby boomer who knows next to
| nothing about hardware and I need plain, straight-forward good advice.
|
| Thanks in advance . . . Denise

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