retired_lidaltd

I currently own a 250 GB HD. I had 500 GB, but one crashed and now I am thinking about buying an external one for videos, photos etc. However, I heard an external hd is way slower still and you can run programs on it etc. Putting videos and photos on it will save a lot of room for my 250 internal hd nonetheless.

I have nothing to back up my files and therefore I need another harddisk. Would you advice buying an internal or an external?

retired_oist_rohan

Use floppy's

retired_tripaige

I bought this the other week and it's been awesome.

retired_ehoff15

there should be not much difference in using an external hard drive if you are just use it to watch video files. I use external hard drives to store video files for my video editing works.

retired_selvinel

I have a high speed external HDD, but the only programs I install onto it are non-games. The difference is pretty much non-existent to the high RPMs and good cache size.

retired_lidaltd

Ok, so games and programs should be installed on the internal. The rest and back-up can be installed on the external.

retired_therob

I'm thinking of getting a HDD to back-up files and photos. Thing is, I could probably fit everything I want to back-up onto one or two 1gb USB sticks. It seems my main reason for wanting a HDD is because I'll no doubt lose the sticks.

retired_navy0614

I've got an external USB-powered HD. It's absolutely wonderful, I love Western Digital :thup:

retired_gitfresh

link ? My brother wants a usb powered one for his laptop iirc

retired_navy0614

link ? My brother wants a usb powered one for his laptop iirc </BLOCKQUOTE>

There's the 120gb one Can get various other sizes also. Ignore the negative reviews from clueless mongs, it's absolutely wonderful.