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External Hard Drive Recommendation

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by cmcneil

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Hi

This is urgent. Can anyone help me? Need to purchase a realllly good and reliable external hard drive for backup and storage purposes.

Cheryl

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by rghoch

Do a Google Search on "External Hard Drive"

Wal-Mart is advertising a Maxtor 500gb external hard drive for $118.88

by dr dij

I use a couple 300 gig USB Seagate drives, the silvery ones. I had to return a seagate free-agent drive because my computer would not boot even to the bios password when it was attached, even tho I had it on boot from c: only.

I have another one dift brand. don't remember. was $50 at Fry's, 160 gig.

be sure to eject the drive with the icon, and if that doesn't work for some reason shut down your system if you want to power off / disconnect the usb drive.

also best to have a mini-ups battery power supply supporting the USB drive and not have alot of other USB devices such as usb kb, usb printers running when you are doing major copies to the USB drive.

if power goes off while copying or even just attached with power on, you will scramble it somewhat. it will be scrambled even if you can see the directory.

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