I am looking to purchase an external hard drive for my computer and want to know which brand is best?

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Sandra L

am looking at the portable hard drives with 500gb and there are many brands and I am unsure which ones are good ones and which ones to stay away from. They are all in the same price range. They are samsung, toshiba, western digital, a-data, lacie, seagate and dane-elec. Any info on these would be helpful.

Answer
The interface matters the most and you probably want 7200 RPM instead of 5400 RPM, unless you use the external hard drive infrequently and want to save power. Do you have e-SATA, firewire ports, or USB 3.0 ports? Note that USB 2.0 is standard now and few people have 3.0 yet.

Is a âportableâ external hard drive for storage-and-carry only, or can it be used alongside your computer?

suntleones

I want an external HD to store my music library and wondered if a portable version (such Seagate's FreeAgent Go) was any worse or better than a regular external HD like a WD myBook or LaCie. Thanks!

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Just consider the usage of the external hard disk. If you plan to use it as intensively as an internal disk, you should check out the transfer rates.
This varies with disks and especially with the interface used: USB 2.0, eSata or FireWire.

Tony

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