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January 28th, 2004 19:00
Adding 200GB, External USB Hard Drive
I want to increase the storage space on my laptop. I don't want to buy another computer, so I'm debating on getting an external hard drive to use. I don't know to much about add an exteral hard drive and would like feeback before I invest $ into something.
I've found IOgear and Maxtor carry larger exteranal hard drives, I don't know if these are just back -up files or if you can use them like the hard drive on the actual computer.
My end goal is to have an exteral hard drive that I could use to keep and use all my files on, so if my computer bombs I won't lose anything. This would also help keep my machine a ' lean speed machine'.
any feed back, comments, etc would be greatly appreciated.
mattcowger
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January 28th, 2004 21:00
They appear as another drive (say, e:) in windows.
autodefrost
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January 28th, 2004 22:00
Thanks for your feedback.
Do you have recommendations as far as brands and reliability?
brulkikker
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January 29th, 2004 07:00
Before i bought my laptop i already had an external 120 gb hd (maxtor). It can be used via USB2 (and USB1, of course) and firewire. I think in this laptop (8600) the USB-support builtin is still version 1.x (I am not sure though). Via firewire though it works like a train (that is: fast and solid).
U ***don't*** want to use a large external HD via USB 1.x, so you should make sure you can connect via FIREWIRE or USB 2. USB 1.x is far 2 slow for transfers of large data ammounts. Firewire and USB2 will give you the performance as were it a normal HD.