It's time to play the hardware advice game again. I'm out of disk space. On my laptop, on my workstation, everywhere I turn. I'm too poor/cheap to go get a huge drive for the workstation. I'm definitely too poor/cheap to replace the drive in my laptop. So I'm thinking an external drive might be the way to go.
Here's my criteria, in order of importance: - Price. Did I mention I'm cheap? - Decent speed, not necessarily bleeding edge high performance, but I will be compiling copious amounts of code on it daily. - Decent size. 10G would be plenty, 40G+ would be niiice - USB 2.0, because my workstation doesn't have firewire Powered through the usb port would be nice, if it's reliable. I thought this would be an easy thing to decide, but there seem to be a lot more factors at play, upon closer inspection. Disk speed, transfer rates, power issues, etc. So do any of you have recommendations/warnings? -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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