Thread: Need advice on a External HHD....

here is one on newegg.com

Newegg.com - iomega Prestige Desktop 34275 1TB 8MB Cache USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - External Hard Drives

Originally Posted by Len-Det64

Western Digital - My Book Essential 500GB External Hard Drive $75.99

Actually I was looking at its Big bro, the WD 1TB at Sams...Its on sale for $109. Seems to have good to excellent reviews with a few "wont turn on" stories behind it.

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/nav...864&pCatg=5795

I think that at Newegg you can use Bing shopping cashback and save even more. If you haven't joined Bing shopping cashback program, then get on it!

Originally Posted by nocturn

Actually I was looking at its Big bro, the WD 1TB at Sams...Its on sale for $109. Seems to have good to excellent reviews with a few "wont turn on" stories behind it.

Sam's Club - Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential Hard Drive

i got this one a while ago for $120. i didn't shop around and didn't have any cash on hand, so i bought it at BB with plastic.

works fine.

Cool. I just went and bought it. I already formatted and partitioned it into 2ea 100gig volumes. I dumped the back up software that came with it because in some reviews it was giving the HDD grief and is only limited to a 30 day trial.

I currently do not have msbackup installed on my rig. Can I do a 100% mirror from msbackup? I want to mirror both my and my wife's disks. For that matter is there a better backup/mirroring program out there that is cheap or even free? Im going to shoot over to Major Geeks and see what they have....

Seagate has the best drives IMO. They go through the most thorough QA/QC process. Less likely to get a dud. Western Digital has a great RMA process and its real easy to return a drive, but come on, you don't want to have to RMA a bad part.

As for backup, you can use something like clonezilla, which is free.