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I need an external hard drive, preferably one of 1TB. I saw one on newegg for about $50 but the deal expired. I need a recommendation for one under about $75. Thanks.
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I personally use a WD Elements 1.5TB. The 1TB version only cost 10$ less. It's my third WD Elements external and I'm pretty happy with them so far.
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spinpoint f3 1 TB for $55 at superbiiz with coupon code "autumn5"
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=HD-HD103SJ
Cheap n64 type dock:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182196
$35 enclosure which I have currently, and like except for the shitty LEDs, and the fan is a bit loud, comes with an eSATA bracket, has been down to $20 before:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042
Cheapest enclosure I can find with a fan $22 AR:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817709026
$30 cheapest I can find right now with eSATA.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182162
Quite frankly, the spinpoint f3 is the best drive on the market right now. At $0.055/GB, there are very very few drives which can beat that price/GB. If they do, they beat it with a 2 TB or 1.5 TB configuration or are at 5*00 RPM. It has better throughput (ie sequential read/write) than any other mainstream hard drive, including all of the caviar blacks, which often cost twice as much. The caviar blacks are better due to server related operations and general quality. Here's a crazy idea: get the spinpoint f3 for an internal, and convert your old hard drive into an external. If it's really old, it's IDE, in which case you can get a super cheap enclosure, and you can also better utilize the slow USB 2.0 interface (max is 40 MB/s, whereas spinpoint f3 can do 120 MB/s easy. Old hard drives cap at about 60 MB/s)..
If you don't want to deal with this shit:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822186260
$65 (was $50 just a few days ago).
To be honest, unless you need it now, black friday is coming up. It's pretty dumb not to wait until then, unless another $50 deal comes along.
spinpoint f3 1 TB for $55 at superbiiz with coupon code "autumn5"
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=HD-HD103SJ
Cheap n64 type dock:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182196
$35 enclosure which I have currently, and like except for the shitty LEDs, and the fan is a bit loud, comes with an eSATA bracket, has been down to $20 before:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042
Cheapest enclosure I can find with a fan $22 AR:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817709026
$30 cheapest I can find right now with eSATA.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182162
Quite frankly, the spinpoint f3 is the best drive on the market right now. At $0.055/GB, there are very very few drives which can beat that price/GB. If they do, they beat it with a 2 TB or 1.5 TB configuration or are at 5*00 RPM. It has better throughput (ie sequential read/write) than any other mainstream hard drive, including all of the caviar blacks, which often cost twice as much. The caviar blacks are better due to server related operations and general quality. Here's a crazy idea: get the spinpoint f3 for an internal, and convert your old hard drive into an external. If it's really old, it's IDE, in which case you can get a super cheap enclosure, and you can also better utilize the slow USB 2.0 interface (max is 40 MB/s, whereas spinpoint f3 can do 120 MB/s easy. Old hard drives cap at about 60 MB/s)..
If you don't want to deal with this shit:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822186260
$65 (was $50 just a few days ago).
To be honest, unless you need it now, black friday is coming up. It's pretty dumb not to wait until then, unless another $50 deal comes along.
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Read these two posts to know what you should *not* buy:
http://www.staredit.net/230663/
http://www.staredit.net/topic/11516/
http://www.staredit.net/230663/
http://www.staredit.net/topic/11516/
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Don't knock WD too much; I disabled it with a software update, don't get pestered anymore.
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