Best external hard disk drive company?

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Gaby5011 wrote on 2013-01-11 15:34

1 ~ 1.5 TB, USB 3.0 please.
Osayidan wrote on 2013-01-11 16:11

I would suggest just assembling your own.
You get an external drive enclosure, and then you just need to buy individual drives. You can then label them and swap them out depending on what you need.
It even allows you to re-use old drives you might have laying around.
Gaby5011 wrote on 2013-01-11 18:48

I'm not that good sadly. Would rather buy one or have a friend help me. But I have no friends who are good are hardware stuff, only software.
Valkyrio wrote on 2013-01-11 18:51

Quote from Gaby5011;1012538:
I'm not that good sadly. Would rather buy one or have a friend help me. But I have no friends who are good are hardware stuff, only software.

It's really, really easy. You mount the hard drive (screws) and hook up the power and data cable, then pop it in the casing. That's it.

So long as you don't buy an IDE enclosure or something you'll be fine. Plus, you only need to learn once to know how to do it again in the future.
Lewd wrote on 2013-01-11 18:53

http://mabination.com/showthread.php?t=65736
Gaby5011 wrote on 2013-01-11 22:33

Quote from teneshi;1012541:
http://mabination.com/showthread.php?t=65736

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Plus, I don't want to command from internet.
RebeccaBlack wrote on 2013-01-12 08:51

It's really easy to put an internal hard drive in an external casing.

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This is a hard drive. It might be thinner or thicker than this. It's decently sized, but you can hold it with one hand. It's a raw, unprotected computer part so it does look a little unusual.

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This is a dock. You literally just slide it in and it works.

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And that's a slightly more secure hard drive enclosure where you still just slide it in. In this picture, there's a hard drive in it that's sticking out partially to show how it fits right in. Anyway, you push it in, tighten a couple screws, and it's in there securely and will function as good as an external hard drive.

If you can charge an iPod, you can use a hard drive enclosure.

Just make sure they're compatible.