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Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:54 am**

Just wanted to get your feedback on what you have and if you are happy

500 gb is about what I need right now ...

200 bucks is about what i would like to spend maybe a little more

your opinions wanted

is there any speed advantages of getting a network hard drive...??

even though i don't have a network at teh moment i will in a couple of months so this may be a benefit

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:04 am**

I have 2 LaCie here.. no problem.. and I think it fits in your budget..

I'm sure they're cheaper in US..

http://www.lacie.com/fr/products/range.htm?id=10007

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:18 am**

Not up to date with HDs martgreg, sorry.

is there any speed advantages of getting a network hard drive...??

Afaik no drive reaches the read/write speeds of S-ATA, so you probably wouldn't see any difference when using another interface. Big Cache helps, and i think pretty much all prosumer drives come with 16MB by now.

I use Samsung drives, quite happy with them. Pretty silent ones.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:57 am**

I just bought this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-500GB-D ... ce_title_2

Except it was USB2.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:01 pm**

I always recommend Seagates.

_Mike

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:27 pm**

i have a NAS and some external HDs and i got to say i love the NAS one more for the fact all my computers can connect to it.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:03 pm**

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage ... VPlus.aspx

BEst Think Out there

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:36 pm**

mverta wrote:I always recommend Seagates.

_Mike

They own Maxtor now as well.. do you know if it would matter to buy a Seagate that is basically a Maxtor?

I wouldn't recommend Western Digital btw, friends of mine have had way too many problems with those (=harddrive failures).

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I want a new external hard drive .. any suggestions ?

I want a new external hard drive .. any suggestions ?