Buying An External Harddrive

I've been looking around to buy another external harddrive and I was on Bestbuy.com.
I saw this:

SimpleTech - SimpleDrive Turbo 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive - Black

Is this good? It costs 80 dollars

 

simpletech.. havent really heard of that brand so i cant tell you about that
specs look good 7200 rpm should be fast get it if you feel to
i would go with a more known brand though
or even better, wait til usb 3.0 is finalized

 

+1 for newegg.com...i bought a 500gb external hard drive for less than 100 bucks on there a year ago and its still working

 

dude get one of those portables 500gb

or even just throw some money one time and get a tb so you nah gotta fus fus

 

Ehh its alright but if I was you I would go on Ebay and buy 1tbyte External Hard Drive I only paid 100 bucks for it and it works like a charm. Not bad thou its western Digital or some crap like that loll. Just type on ebay 1tb external hard drive and you will see.

 

western digital is an okay brand,
but id shoot for seagate.

externals are cheap now
you could probably find a 1TB for less then 70 bucks if you look around

 

Ok, so I'll try and find a cheap 1TB even though thats alot for me. I still have alot of space left on my 320 GB Western Digital right now. But is the brand, SimpleTech, any good? I think 500GB is good for me and that was a good price, $79.99

 

yea i recommend you get a seagate thats really good lost you a long time wont crash or ne thing it shut down by it self and stuff when u not at the comp

note: Maxtor and Seagate is the same brand made by the same company

Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 750GB 3.5" External Hard Drive - 7200, USB 2.0

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3718771&CatId=136

 

dont ever get a free agent.
that shit has 10000 software bugs

look for hard drive external
not free agent

 

I wouldnt trust eBay on buying hard drives because anyone can sell it there and by the time it gets to you, if they didnt package it right, it might get screwed up, leaving out the fact they could send you one that's already dead and theres no much you can do about it.

 

western digital or lacie
PERIOD

just in case you have issues there custi service is good
thats what you pay the extra loot for

they both use western digital drives or seagate i think in lacie

 

careful with what drives you buy, specially if its dirt cheap, my friend is a photographer, tons of pictures and lifelong memories down the drain when his so called "western digital hard drive 7200 " turned out to have a samsung hard-drive 5200rpm inside of a WD case which later crashed and had to pay a very good amount to restore his shit which i don't even know if he got all his stuff back...he purchased it from newegg.com btw

 

Why Buy Bootlegs When You Can Download Them For Free At Mastahpiece.com!!!

 

LOL fah real yo
i paid around the same price for my 400gb external 2.5 years ago

 

Really? WD is really good, I have one right now. Yeah, so I'll go with you guys on WD and Seagate.
So your saying SimpleTech is good?

 

No, 2 of my WD drives ****ed up, my 500gb feel from like 6 inches, and then i lost like 65gbs of data... and then what jigouttrev said about his friends drive, that was mine.. i bought a passport drive to back up my data because i was gonna reformat my laptop, and then i backed up my data, reformatted my laptop the next day, and then 2 days later when i was going to restore the data, the drive didn't work, tried it in 3 different computers still didn't work.. I trust Seagate and Simpletech though.

 

I Was Wondering, Is It Best To Have Two External Drives, And Back You'r Stuff Up On Both Of Them, Cause In Case Of One Of Them ****s Up, At Least U Got A Back-Up? Man, They Gotta Be A Cheaper Way To Do This!

 

i made a partition on my internal for my music and documents, and the rest is my regular C drive, that way when i have to reboot i just reboot my windows partition.