I don't know what to go with. I've got $80, and I would like to keep some of it so I can keep saving for a Fender Jazz to replace my crappy bowed-neck Silvertone revolver. I have a crappy 40GB in my laptop now (long story short-), because it's filled with my step-dad's backups for work; he needs them; can't be removed; I have less than a gigabyte left without deleting what I'd consider to be cherish-able memories.
There are a few candidates that I'm looking at, on Ebay, and Amazon, because they are the cheapest I can find anywhere (and some of them are Goddamn cheap!), and I'd prefer to buy off of a site that I have been using forever.
I'm not asking you to decide for me, just to give some advice, and if you have any experience with any of these, talking about it would be nice. I have a laptop with like 4 USB ports, and I don't have a firewire port (I don't think any of these are firewire, though).
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Western-Digital-250GB-Portable-HDD-Recert-WDBAAA2500ABL-/380226171994?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58873ef45a#ht_5636wt_839[/url]
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Verbatim-320GB-PORTABLE-HARD-DRIVE-/320521271937?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa08e7a81#ht_928wt_1065[/url]
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Toshiba-320GB-USB-Portable-Hard-Drive-/390186662175?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ad8eff91f#ht_1396wt_1065[/url]
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Western-Digital-640GB-PORTABLE-HARD-DRIVE-WD6400H1U-0-/300419398075?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f26439bb#ht_996wt_1065[/url]
(I wouldn't even need 640GB, but isn't that a fucking deal?)
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-Portable-External-ST902503FAA2E1-RK/dp/B001FWBUUG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1272101624&sr=8-6[/url]
(The 250)
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Portable-External-Drive-HDDR320E04XW/dp/B002CM3N2Q/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1272105400&sr=1-5[/url]
(The 320)
As you can see, I'm a very indecisive person. I, pretty much right away, am going to fill up any of these that I get with 50-100GB of music. I don't really know which one I'd want... I'd want the best deal, id est the most space for the least price, comparatively. If I had a job, I'd just save up for a new laptop, but you know the rest of that.
Any help/tips/advice/anything?
you might also want to consider just buying a new internal HDD, copying over the backups onto some other storage method and installing the new one and restoring them.
he also then has the backups on an uninstalled 40GB internal hard drive, which is always good.
[QUOTE=mike;21540859]you might also want to consider just buying a new internal HDD, copying over the backups onto some other storage method and installing the new one and restoring them.
he also then has the backups on an uninstalled 40GB internal hard drive, which is always good.[/QUOTE]
I had two other different hard drives laying around, both of them good, and neither of them worked in this laptop. It's 7 years old, and it was a weird model back then, so it's a bit... antiquated. Even just to upgrade the RAM to 2GB, to find my specific kind of ram, it'd cost me more than $200.
I have a new idea, and I need a bit of help with it.
[url]http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hitachi-SimpleTough-320GB-Portable-Hard-Drive-Carbon/12457368[/url]
This is the cheapest, highest capacity (for my needs), external hard drive, and best of all (for me), it's ruggedized! I can spill shit on it, and drop it and it'll still be fine.
Just one question: Can I keep this connected to my laptop and use it just as I would a normal, or secondary hard drive? Save all of my games/music/porn on it and play it off of there seamlessly while connected?
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