Looking for an External Hard Drive

[Twisted Fairytale]

Hey everyone,

I've recently filled up two terabyte hard drives with Photoshop documents, games, and pictures. Everything I have is considered important, so I can't really delete anything. I don't have another port in my computer for an internal.

Therefore, I'm looking for an inexpensive external hard drive to continue expanding my disk space. Can anyone recommend a reliable external HDD for someone on a budget?

 

[Russhawk]

I have a Seagate Expansion+ 500GB HDD, and I like it. It's relatively cheap (~$60) and it's pretty reliable for me.

 

[_Jerry_]

I have a Seagate Expansion External Drive of 1TB. It bought this for 70$ 2 years age. It is very good so far and little bit bulky, requires external power supply.

 

[froggyboy604]

I recommend making your own External hard drive by buying a 1TB or bigger hard drive, and buying an External drive enclosure.

I heard VantecUSA makes good external hard drive enclosure : http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/sea ... +enclosure

Western Digital/WD, and Hitachi makes decent hard drive. I think a 1 TB sata 3 hard drive cost about $60 online.

Plus, if the external enclosure breaks many years from now, you can connect the hard drive to another working external enclosure to access your data if the drive still work, and it is the external drive enclosure circuit board drive controller which is breaking, and not the hard drive which is breaking.

 

[Teekay]

If I was to buy an external hard drive, it'd be this one - http://amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005MNGQ6C

 

[Venom]

Would really recommend backing up all your documents to an external HDD then swapping out one of your 1TB drive for a larger drive. Unless you have USB 3.1 and even then you will notice slower transfer rates.

 

[froggyboy604]

There are hard drive SATA controller PCI and PCI-X cards like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... Product for adding more drives to your computer, or using to replace failing motherboard cards.

There are brackets like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... Product which you use to screw in the hard drive to the slot on the case which is usually use to install an extra optical drive if you do not have any 3.5 hard drive bays left.

 

[Gamer Outpost]

This 2TB external HD from newegg looks like a good deal: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822152409.

 

[S-Jack]

My Toshiba's are getting on for 3-4 years old now and are performing at great speeds & USB 3.0 😀

 

[Venom]

My Toshiba's are getting on for 3-4 years old now and are performing at great speeds & USB 3.0 😀

Still, It's quite alot slower than SATA and the difference is defiantly noticeable.

 

[george.vladd37]

Hp, western digital and Seagate, have the most reliabe and economic hard drives.

 

[froggyboy604]

My Toshiba's are getting on for 3-4 years old now and are performing at great speeds & USB 3.0 😀

Still, It's quite alot slower than SATA and the difference is defiantly noticeable.

I agree.

I think E-Sata which can be found on the case on some newer desktop computers is as fast as internal SATA drive.