Posted: 6/10/2007 6:55:29 PM EDT
| can anyone give me any advice on what external hard drive to buy? the main reason i want it is to store pictures on. best buy has a seagate 500gb for $169.00 that i am thinking about buying. any help would be great i no almost nothing about computers. |
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I've had a Seagate external 300 GB for a couple of years now and love it. To expand on TinLeg's idea (I think these are what he means): A "thumb drive" (they go by other names, as well) is very easy to transport and won't need the power source the much larger Seagate or the like will. If you're just leaving the external drive plugged in at home for the most part this won't matter, but if you want to travel, etc. with the pics on something more portable a small/thumb USB drive might be a good idea. If just a small one fits your needs, you can fit rather a lot of images, even high resolution types, on a small USB drive of decent capacity (they're fairly easily found as large as 2-4 GB in many stores). If you do plan on simply leaving it plugged in at home for the most part that Seagate would be a great choice. I usually burn DVDs of my images to free up space on my 300 GB, but it takes even me--I take a LOT of high resolution images--a good long while to fill it up. The 300 GB might save you some money if that's a concern and you don't really need the 500 GB. Hope this helps.  |
No, i'm not talking about flash memory. I'm talking about external hard drives. Usually it's a laptop hard drive shoehorned into a small a case as possible, along with a USB adaptor. |
I picked up a 160GB Western Digital 2.5" drive (no external power required) at Costco a few weeks ago for $105. Works like a champ. I use this as my backpack/laptop drive. |
| thanks for all the info this is just what i was looking for. I just want something to leave at home and store my pictures on. the 2 reasons i want one is because i want to make sure i have some backup in cas emy computer crash a would hate to loose my pictures. the other is becuse my 30 gb hard drive only has 7gb left. agian thanks for all the help i will problly get the seagate 500gb |
