wats the best external drives on the market and how much?
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I used to have a Toshiba and it crashed and nobody can fix it. My suggestion: dump it and get a Gateway.
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As long as you are going to all that trouble to put another drive on the new machine you might want to see what is on sale lately. I saw that Microcenter on the Internet has a 250 gig drive for $49 after rebates. Comes the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) I expect a bunch more great sales. Keep an eye out for a biggie at a low price.
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I would go with a lacie drive :\n\nhttp://www.lacie.com/products/family.htm?id=10007\n\nDepends what sort of features you are after, If you have lots of money then I would suggest one of the RAID ones they have ( they are like a couple thousand dollars ) so be warned, when I say expensive I mean expensive lol.\n\nOther then that just get which ever one suits you, mobile or desktop one - As long as it is external and or internal if your laptop has a modular bay. I suggest external though but make sure that your laptop can support the interface types ie firewire or USB 1.1 or 2.0. ( WIth regards to USB they both work ie you can use USB 1.1 devices with USB 2.0 and visa versa ). Same goes for firewire but you can NOT and do not use usb with firewire or firewire with usb.
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I think the Western Digital Raptor line is currently the fastest SATA 3.0 hard drive.  It's 10,000rpm, but I can't say how it compares to SCII drives.\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136034
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I've always good luck with Seagate's and Hitachi's.\n\nYou can get a Seagate 300GB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive from Best Buy for about $190 and it's a 7200 rpm for fast read/write times.
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largest USB flash drives are 8GB from SanDisk, Lexar, Memorex and others.\nBut you still have the opportunity to use a 2.5" hard disk in an external USB 2.0 case. And btw, this solution is far cheaper than a single 8GB USB flash drive.\n\nAnnex\nI just found a brand new USB stick of 20 GB on ebay, it's called X-pen but the manufacturer is unknown. It consist of a 1.8" HD (4200 RPM) and the size is the same of a 2.5" HD. Price is approx. $170.
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Raxco's PerfectDisk is better than Diskeeper.\n\nhttp://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/
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There are 2 types of External HDD's.\n\nType one - 3.5 inch format that requires an external power supply.  These are great if you plan on connecting it to a DESKTOP (or Laptop) PC and you will never need to move it from your desk, or operate it away from a 110 outlet.  These are cheaper, bigger, heavier and have much larger storage capacities.\n\nType two - 2.5 inch format that usually is powered thru the USB cable - does not need the external power supply like the first type.  These will be much smaller and easier to bring over to a friends house to use on another computer or share files (MP3's) etc.  They are about the size of an Ipod and come in sizes up to 120GB.  These cost more per MB compared to the larger ones metioned earlier.\n\nHere is a good one with a $50.00 rebate! from newegg...\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136016\n\nGood Luck!
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ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe. It is a good board. It runs around $120. I have had excellent luck with Hitachi hard drives and they have excellent performance. 400GB Hitachi will run about $175.
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goto http://www.driverguide.com\nMost of the drivers for most drives are there.
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never tried them, always used seagate... why fix something that doesn't cause u headache. go seagate?
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Western Digital flat out makes the best hard drives be it for a laptop or a desktop!!! They have the best drive utilities and are the easiest to setup,As well as the longest lasting. I have three WD laptop drives in constant use with no failures. The one drive is over six years old!! The other two are over two years.
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Haven't heard of such a device, I believe you meant an external USB hard disk or Thumbdrive.\n\nIf there is such a device, you may want to ask Santa to get one for everyone of us here.
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I don't think you lose anything, other than it taking a little of your time.  I'd recommend going with a reputable case vendor rather than buying a cheap one.  I've been very happy with the external drives I've got from Other World Computing (link below) and the cases they sell are the same ones they use on their external drives.  Despite their name, the drives work fine on PCs as well as Macs - - in fact, I have one of their drives on both a PC and a Mac at the moment.
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Get an external USB hard drive. 80 gig should be just under $100 US, and would be much faster.\n\nOr try burning files you don't use often to DVD.
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If this the RAID array is going to be for your primary boot volume and you're simply looking for top loading speeds, the Raptors are your best bet.  If you're looking for maximum capacity for your dollars, get the 7.2K drives.
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I believe that this drive is nothing more than an external HDD. So, I suppose that any other external USB HDD would work? But you never know with HP!