Topic: External HD

[jbell]

My seagate is filling up and I need to grab a new one.  I am looking for 1-2TB external and I have liked the Seagate I currently use.  Thought I would see what others have used with success.  Thanks

[sparkey]

My seagate is filling up and I need to grab a new one.  I am looking for 1-2TB external and I have liked the Seagate I currently use.  Thought I would see what others have used with success.  Thanks

No idea about reliability, but Best Buy had 2TB on sale for about $140 this past weekend in their flyer.

[Gordon]

I prefer to buy internals and put them in a enclosure.  especially if your computer supports esata!  much faster than usb.  I have one of these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

in one of these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042

and love it.  I've had two of these enclosures for a few years now and no problems at all.

I used to swear by seagates but it seems they are slipping these days.  that said I have 4 internals and one external seagate and no problems thus far.  the actual external gets way too hot for my liking though.

[mattmiller]

I also have started going the internals-in-enclosure route.  This 2-drive enclosure works great, although it's not cheap:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392024

Toss in two drives and set it to either RAID 0, RAID 1, or JBOD and you're cruising.  Silicon Image's Steelvine Manager (http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=103&cat=24) works great for monitoring the drives.

[kirk97132]

I got a 1TB Iomega a little while ago which I heard has seagate drive in it.  I'm liking it so far and it has about 9 months on it. fwiw It was just under 100 w/shipping