External Hard Drive

[AK.]

Hey Monsters,

Im looking at getting a external hard drive to store my music on, basically im looking for a recomendation do you have one? is it good? are they easily corrupted?

cheers.

[bingo83]

I have a Western Digital My Book World Edition NAS drive. You can connect to it from anywhere in the world and stream your files. It connects to your Router and you can either use the software it comes with or Map a drive letter to it and use it that way. Its pretty decent but the software can limit is usage which can be annoying.

When I get home I will update this as I was looking at new ones recently.

[padds78]

I use a maxtor 500gb external HD and ive never had any problems with it(Y) and its only £58 from tescos.

[Veteran]

Just remember not to have anything that you value, like music or photos only stored in one place. Western Digital or Maxtor or LaCie can guarantee all they want, but if the disk dies and you lose 50Gig of music / photos / data then you're fooked. I have data in three different places : DVDs, an External HDD permamnently attached to the Mac, and a portable external that I carry around with me. You could also look into online backups if you want. Stuff like Amazon S3 are quite good.

[Jodaphone]

I have a 1TB Freecom external hard disk drive!

Absolutely love it. Makes no noise what so ever and its a TERABITE! AHAAHAAAAAA!

Seriously recommend. Never needed to do anything since!

and great for backing up like files and stuff ^_^

[demon cleaner]

I have several, including Western Digital, Maxtor & Buffalo, and so far I had no greater problems, only one of the Maxtor's died. I'm no big fan of external HDD, but I need them to make backups or transfer ROM collections, but I won't trust them blindly, I always have another backup around.