Suggestions for External Hard Drive

[Unregistered]

Hi all. I'm looking for suggestions for good external hard drives and where to buy them. Any ideas? Thanks.

[dcv]

If you're not averse to "some assembly required," it's normally cheapest to build your own external hard drive. Just check http://www.newegg.com - you can get a big hard drive for very little cash and a USB External enclosure for maybe $20.

If you want to buy a prebuilt external hard drive, http://www.newegg.com is still a great place to go - I like Western Digital MyBook drives and Seagate external drives, personally (Seagates because they're my favorite hard drive brand with the best (5-year!) warranty, and Western Digital because they're quite cheap).

[mah4]

I have bought lots of computer parts from www.newegg.com and never had a problem with them. Also to help decide on which external hard drive you would like to get, their site has lots of reviews and other helpful stats.

[dparm]

Cheap external case from computer parts store + any hard drive

Cheap, upgradeable, and gives a lot of flexibility.

[rjhill1]

I totally agree with Dane's suggestion, Newegg and Western Digital rock my socks. At last check, SWS in town also has like a $20 hard drive sled you can use, plus they'll give you a 5% discount if you show your UA ID when you buy it. I was going to buy one for my friend, but they unfortunately were already closed when she needed one.

[dparm]

Western Digital MyBook drives can be had fairly cheap these days -- $100 gets you at least 160GB from Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.

[dcv]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=mybook&x=0&y=0

On Newegg, $90 can get you a 250GB WD MyBook - and $160 gets you 500GB(!).

Man, that's about the same price as a plain 500GB drive and an enclosure...

//me contemplates purchasing one