What is the best brand/kind of portable hard drive?

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Kelley

I'm looking to free up my laptop with an portable hard drive. I don't a good brand or model for one. What has worked for you all?

Answer
Western Digital is a very good / reliable brand. Many choices based on size and connections (USB/Firewire). A lot of good values in the 250-320gb range

can i use a WesternDigital portable hard drive as my main harddrive?

NoahBD

So i am looking into buying a western digital 1Tb portable hard drive but just wondering if i can use it as my main hard drive.

I have a laptop with like 10GB out of 218 left.
If you need anymore info let me know.

Answer
yes you can you just need to format it to the right file type fat32 or ntfs more likely the later
put it in to the laptop and use your os disk to start instaling then use the hardware from the portable case to copy your data from your old hard drive

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