External Hard Drives

[athene]

Ok Internets, I have a question for you.

For my capstone, I need to buy an external hard drive for my boss. The hard drive is going to be holding lots of high quality scanned images and possibly some video and audio files.

I'm thinking at least a 750GB if not at 1TB drive. USB connection or Firewire A connection a must (both would be better).

So, oh internets, what hard drive should I buy? Or at least what company should I go with/should avoid?

Thanks!

Comments

[drackyyn.livejournal.com]

Keep these things in mind:

1) Maxtor sucks.

2) Seagate bought Maxtor... I certainly wouldn't trust Seagate any longer.

3) Internal drives with an external enclosure. Best of both worlds right? Well the power supplies on external enclosures tend to break. I would only suggest this is your boss understands that replacing the enclosure is likely in the near future. It's certainly possible to get a good enclosure, but I'm at a loss to tell you what to look for...Internets?

4) Dont forget eSATA as an option...much faster than FireWire if your systems supports eSATA.

[athene.livejournal.com]

Boss is somewhat of technophobe. She has a Mac. It'd be easier to get an external, instead of an internal-in-an-external.

[missingwatch.livejournal.com]

eSATA won't be supported on the mac, but if you're doing video files i recommend the firewire drive. and dont' buy off the mac store--overpriced.