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What is the best external hard drive, good size, and a middle of the road price?
 
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WD MyBook 1TB for like 99 bucks.
 
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Newegg.com - Western Digital Element 1TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive - External Hard Drives $99 shipped
 
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I bought my own separate HD and external enclosure, and it's been working fine for a couple of years now
 
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WD MyBook 1TB for like 99 bucks.
I have one.... Gets the job done but it can be painfully slow transferring big files.
 
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Wow, holy ****, that's a pretty good deal.
 
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Are you wanting a portable drive or a external desktop drive?
 
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Are you wanting a portable drive or a external desktop drive?
It is not for me, but ideal yes something that *could* be carried around with out too much trouble.
 
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spend ~$20 more and get one with eSATA, it helps a lot with transfer speed, especially if this HD is gonna be docked at one PC 50% or more of the time.

Newegg.com - Fantom Drives G-Force GF1000T 1TB USB 2.0 ***47; IEEE 1394a ***47; eSATA Triple Interface External Hard Drive - External Hard Drives

i have that one, no complaints.
 
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spend ~$20 more and get one with eSATA, it helps a lot with transfer speed, especially if this HD is gonna be docked at one PC 50% or more of the time.

Newegg.com - Fantom Drives G-Force GF1000T 1TB USB 2.0 / IEEE 1394a / eSATA Triple Interface External Hard Drive - External Hard Drives

i have that one, no complaints.
Newegg.com - Fantom Drives G-Force GF1000EU 1TB USB 2.0 ***47; eSATA External Hard Drive - External Hard Drives

This ones only 75
 
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WD MyBook 1TB for like 99 bucks.
I have one, it's pretty decent

It's noisier than a Lacie, though.
 
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I have this one and no complaints, sure if your doing huge file transfers every day you could look into one wit eSATA but for a place to dump my TV shows ans movies this one kicks ass.
 
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I have this one and no complaints, sure if your doing huge file transfers every day you could look into one wit eSATA but for a place to dump my TV shows ans movies this one kicks ass.
This is pretty much what he is doing. He wants to be able to rip all the dvds that he has, and be able to get rid of them (or at least store them somewhere).
 
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maybe thats teh one i have. i got it a few months ago for like 115 shipped. definately no complaints though. quiet, quick file transfers. i like it.
 
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i have 2 wd's, one 120gb and one 1tb

have had the 120gb for almost 2 years and the 1tb for a year and i have no complaints
 
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I have one, it's pretty decent

It's noisier than a Lacie, though.
is this one of the NAS models?

I have trouble streaming from my 4TB WD NAS and the built in media server that they said was awesome sucks donkey balls.

Setting the VLC buffer to 20 seconds cleared it up mostly but for a gigabit connection it is no where near fast enough. Large file transfers go at about 5MB/s which means it should be able to stream just fine but it doesn't
 
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I've had 2 WD external 'my book' or whatever die on me. I just back up on an internal drive and simply unplug the molex from it since I rarely download anything worth keeping.
 
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is this one of the NAS models?
Nah, it's just a basic Elements one, like this but silver:

 
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Buy an internal SATA drive with good specs.

Pop it into an eSATA enclosure.
 
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Buy an internal SATA drive with good specs.

Pop it into an eSATA enclosure.
This is what I do, for sure. But it isn't for me, and the guy wants to be able to just go to a store and pick one up. And I don't want the hassle of building it for him, or having any complaints if something ****s up.
 
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