I was wondering if anyone knows of the good brands. I am looking to get a 1 terabyte hard drive and was looking at the LaCie, western digital. Or if somone could recommend a brand. The reasons for me getting one are obvious just to store all my music. Thanks guys/gals :D

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You could buy any 1TB harddisk and put them in an external enclosure? That should cost less.

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NEVER BUY LACIE....

trust me

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I've seen massive amounts of Lacie hard drives in operating rooms and heard nothing but good things from IT people. What gives?

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[quote=feather;555598]You could buy any 1TB harddisk and put them in an external enclosure? That should cost less.[/quote]

Sorry mate but you will have to explain what you mean by this :what

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Those external hard drives you see are basically your typical 3.5" internal drives that you find in your computers. All you need is an external enclosure similar to [URL="http://www.vantecusa.com/p_nst360u2.html"]this[/URL] with either a USB or Firewire connection. The difference is when you purchase a complete drive from makers like LaCie, it usually comes with some one-button backup function that you might or might not use.

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[quote=johns;555586]I was wondering if anyone knows of the good brands. I am looking to get a 1 terabyte hard drive and was looking at the LaCie, western digital. Or if somone could recommend a brand. The reasons for me getting one are obvious just to store all my music. Thanks guys/gals :D[/quote]

do what i did m8, buy 2 500 gig instead of 1TB, its much cheaper and if the TB'r goes down @least ur not loosing all ur data, i bought 2 500 sata's and 2 500 externals so i have everything backed up incase of any misshaps

never trust a hard drive is my moto :|

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[quote=miketpoto;555645]NEVER BUY LACIE....

trust me[/quote]

all my externals are lacie and i,ve never had 1 problem with any of them

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not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know of any other portable external drives that are bus-powered, like a WD Passport (i.e., that don't require an external power source)? Looking for something 250 MB or bigger. Might just go the Passport route, but I'm not even aware if there are other options. TIA.

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I know staples had a 320 Gig Maxtor (bus powered) I saw around Christmas time for about $90. Not sure the deal is still running.

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[QUOTE=red1;555813]all my externals are lacie and i,ve never had 1 problem with any of them[/QUOTE]

We have had over 70 of them fail in the past 2 years... and their customer service bites it too.

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I've got a WD pasport. 2.5" 80GB version and I just hook it up via USB to the laptop and it works like a charm. Small, light-weight and doesn't get hot. You can always get a 1.8" flash drive and an enclosure for it. You can find those at places online like Newegg.

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[quote=miketpoto;555882]We have had over 70 of them fail in the past 2 years... and their customer service bites it too.[/quote]

tbh i never have any of them on for more than 10 minutes @ a time and like i say i back up all my data to other sources aswell so tbh i cant really comment fully on the subject :|

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[quote=toasty;555816]not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know of any other portable external drives that are bus-powered, like a WD Passport (i.e., that don't require an external power source)? Looking for something 250 MB or bigger. Might just go the Passport route, but I'm not even aware if there are other options. TIA.[/quote]

From what I know, only 2.5" notebook drives can be bus-powered, anything bigger, ie. your 3.5" internal drives, need an external power source. I use a 2.5" 80GB for portability, and a 3.5" 250GB for home.

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I have been using Maxtor and Seagate. Personally I like Maxtor because of their 800 Firewire bus and daisy chain option. I have been very lucky with externals. I currently have over 8 external drives and I use them strictly for back up. I buy them in pairs. I have two copies of everything.

Just be careful when you go with higher gigs. They tend to have a higher failure rate.

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You can get a FireWire800 enclosure for any hard drive. Don't be stuck with just Maxtor. C'mon now.

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Time is money. I do not have time to go back and forth to Fry's. ;)

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Why would you buy an enclosure from Fry's? They have the worst prices for enclosures.

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Gonna get a 500 gig maxtor. Hope it's good.

Or outta this range which do u recommend?

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i've got a 320Gb Western Digital jobbie!

works a treat, but a bit on the bulky side and it needs to be plugged into the wall for juice.

apparently u can get selfed power 320gb drives now that are a lot smaller.

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Yes. The 2.5" laptop drives can just be plugged into your system and won't need additional power.

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i am thinking either get a Western one or Maxtor. Which is a better name and model. i don't care bout plugging it into the wall as long as by plugging it into the wall it won't heat up more.

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WD have been producing decent hdds recently, I'd go with them. The Maxtor external hdd is a fugly brick anyway, I know, it's sitting right next to my notebook right now. Good thing it isn't mine, just dumping gigs of music into it for my friend.

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rip it out and put it in your own case then :lol:

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WD it is then.

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Just bought the WD 500 gig one. Copying some files onto it now. Since this is my first one is there anything i should be careful of ? EG not moving too many files at one time or anything else. Thanks guy's its nice and compact. and no noise (so far anyway). 8)

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oh and i got it for $189 Australian dollars. which i think is quiet cheap. I thought it would cost me like $300-400. so thats nice to know how cheap they are. once this is packed full which won't take long will get another one. depends if it gives me trouble or not.

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You are good to go with it. If at some point you want to connect it to a Mac, then the drive has to be formatted in FAT32 (which it should be by default).

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cool. cheers bro :D

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bro?