So anyways, what my plan is to buy a external hard drive (prob 1TB), and then either move some or most of my stuff onto it from my hard drive. Then wipe my hard drive clean, reinstall everything, and then just keep my computer hard drive for my system opreations, and the external hard drive for all my junk. Any suggestions?
bad idea
USB is too slow, and this comes from personal experience of earlier today moving tons of stuff to and from an external
just get a 7200RPM 1TB internal
[QUOTE=TheMadness;17295511]bad idea
USB is too slow, and this comes from personal experience of earlier today moving tons of stuff to and from an external
just get a 7200RPM 1TB internal[/QUOTE]
Agreed. If you don't want the external for moving around a lot then just get a nice internal drive and save yourself the troubles of USB HDD's.
[QUOTE=bob311;17295397]So anyways, what my plan is to buy a external hard drive (prob 1TB), and then either move some or most of my stuff onto it from my hard drive. Then wipe my hard drive clean, reinstall everything, and then just keep my computer hard drive for my system opreations, and the external hard drive for all my junk. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
Why?
Ok, maybe i should just buy another internal hard drive, but what i was thinking was that i would have one for just my operation system and all the important stuff, and then the other for all my junk.
You could put all your junk on another internal hard drive and it would be faster than usb.
[QUOTE=TheMadness;17295511]bad idea
USB is too slow, and this comes from personal experience of earlier today moving tons of stuff to and from an external
just get a 7200RPM 1TB internal[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Either that or consider E-Sata, because the read/write on USB HDDs is utterly abysmal.
With the E-sata route you would either have to have an E-sata slot on your motherboard's back panel, or buy a relatively cheap E-sata expansion card.
Alright, well another internal hard drive it is. But, any suggestions to a good hard drive, preferably 1TB.
[QUOTE=bob311;17296678]Alright, well another internal hard drive it is. But, any suggestions to a good hard drive, preferably 1TB.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136337[/url]
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Wow, I just realized that it costs 10 cents per gig to get that.
[QUOTE=KarlHeinrichMarx;17296873][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136337[/url]
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Wow, I just realized that it costs 10 cents per gig to get that.[/QUOTE]
Just get an OEM drive, costs less.
[QUOTE=bob311;17296678]Alright, well another internal hard drive it is. But, any suggestions to a good hard drive, preferably 1TB.[/QUOTE]
Samsung SpinPoint F1
[B]Do NOT get a WD MyBook[/B]
Get an e-SATA drive. They are really fast, however don't get anything by Seagate because those have problems.
[QUOTE=bob311;17295397]So anyways, what my plan is to buy a external hard drive (prob 1TB), and then either move some or most of my stuff onto it from my hard drive. Then wipe my hard drive clean, reinstall everything, and then just keep my computer hard drive for my system opreations, and the external hard drive for all my junk. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
This is exactly what I did. Because my laptop is my only computer, upgrading the [i]dell[/i] HDD would be a major pain. thus, I bought a 500GB external HDD and and ESATA express card adapter. I now run all my games off of it; it works like a charm. I also have a second copy of steam with only CSS, HL2:DM, & TF2 installed on my internal, for when I want to LAN. No performance drop that I see, even with a slight bottleneck at the card. (Of course, my computer is so horrible, the external isn't the limiting factor.)
But, it looks like you have a desktop, so I would definitely recommend an internal. If you had the money, you could buy a small 10k RPM+ or even a SSD for your OS and a larger slower 7200 RPM- drive for your big files.
Sweet, thanks for all the help.
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