Hi George,
The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to
think about.
BRANDS
I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general
consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their
reasoning
was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the
business many years.
WARRANTY
Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs.
Remember,
as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not
the
information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files,
music,
and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven.
USAGE
Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the
Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost
exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of
your
hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all
one
would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive.
My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000
GB. I
use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection
What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's
storage
capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7
inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it
flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk
spance.
I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3
tiimes the memory.
OPERATION
The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up
process
when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but
there
are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS.
If
you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make
a
difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the
Seagate
Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt
them.
One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to
"hibernate" just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes.
Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool.
Maybe
that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty.
PRICES
In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen
as
many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity
as
your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will
get
filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting
more
capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's
unbelievble
BEST PRICE
Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is
a
great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts
tables
of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores.
Just
go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine
all
the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then,
just
comparison shop.
One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full
capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current
stored
files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in
your
closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that
you
have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost.
So,
put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up.
I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned.
Shannon Burle
-- Original Message -----
From: "George Marshall" <marshall.geo...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Hi:
The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the
software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and
paste
from your C drive.
HTH,
George R. Marshall
marshall.geo...@gmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <acart...@juno.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Hi Rogelio,
I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the
walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all
depends how much you are going to put on it.
It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but
I
soon will.
The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an
on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the
format is.
I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format.
Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English.
:)
Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility.
I
didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here.
I now have it downloaded an installed.
AC
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Rick Justice" <ricjust...@jaws-users.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive
Message-ID: <4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick>
References: <7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio>
Hi Rogelio,
The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey,
instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference.
Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rogelio Terrazas" <rogelio.terra...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive
HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner
www.blind-computing.com
I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid
$79.00 for it . Is that a good price?
rogelio.terra...@gmail.com
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