need advice on a USB Hard Drive

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I would like to buy a 1.1/2.0 External USB Hard drive and I do not know
which one to get.
My choice is between the Maxtor and the Western Digital but i need some
advice on which one I should get.
I use Drive Image 7.0 and want to clone it to the drive.

Can you please help me?

thanks
robin

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flower said:
I would like to buy a 1.1/2.0 External USB Hard drive and I do not know
which one to get.
My choice is between the Maxtor and the Western Digital but i need some
advice on which one I should get.
I use Drive Image 7.0 and want to clone it to the drive.

Can you please help me?
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Forget USB1.1. Recently I attempted to transfer 20GB of video files from my
son's PC to his friend's. It took 9 hours for each copy process. Both of
them only have USB1.1. It took under 16 minutes on my own USB2.0 system. My
pocket size unit is capable of 22MB/s. Bought the enclosure and a 40GB
notebook size HDD separately. Takes power from 2 USB ports so no external
PSU is necessary.
http://www.bona.com.tw:8888/index1.htm
 
Alien Zord said:
Forget USB1.1. Recently I attempted to transfer 20GB of video files from my
son's PC to his friend's. It took 9 hours for each copy process. Both of
them only have USB1.1. It took under 16 minutes on my own USB2.0 system. My
pocket size unit is capable of 22MB/s. Bought the enclosure and a 40GB
notebook size HDD separately. Takes power from 2 USB ports so no external
PSU is necessary.
http://www.bona.com.tw:8888/index1.htm
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Sorry, damn web design. Click PC Products, Enclosure, ME-250U2.
 
flower said:
I would like to buy a 1.1/2.0 External USB Hard drive and I do not know
which one to get.
My choice is between the Maxtor and the Western Digital but i need some
advice on which one I should get.
I use Drive Image 7.0 and want to clone it to the drive.

Can you please help me?

thanks
robin
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I have an 80GB Maxtor and a 120 GB Western Digital. They both work great.
Make sure to get the 2.0 USB (and make sure your computer has the 2.0 USB
port.) My older computer didn't have the 2.0 USB port so the HD complained
about it when I first hooked it up. It was extremely slow that way so I put
a 2.0 USB card in that computer (they aren't very expensive and have extra
ports) and it works great now. The only deciding factor would be price,
size and speed. Don't get anything slower than 7200.
 
which one do you like better the maxtor or the western digital- the maxtor
now comes with a one touch system and backup program- the one i looked at is
part A01B120 and sells for retail (I am assuming I can prolly find it for
less online $179.95 and is 7200

robin
 
I would like to buy a 1.1/2.0 External USB Hard drive and I do not know
which one to get.
My choice is between the Maxtor and the Western Digital but i need some
advice on which one I should get.
I use Drive Image 7.0 and want to clone it to the drive.

Can you please help me?

thanks
robin
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Consider doing this, which will be cheaper and more versatile:

Buy one of those USB to IDE cable converter kits, which
includes the cable and the power unit for the drive. The beauty of this is
that you can use it for other drives including CD/DVD drives as well if
needed.

Buy whatever drive you want, separately. Then you don't necessarily need
any enclosure at all for the drive if you're careful (not recommended). But
what makes a good enclosure on the cheap is one of those removable
driveracks, the kind that normally mounts in a case. Some include little
fans, too (get the kind that includes front fan), which is great for
keeping your drive cool. Sometimes you can buy the remove part, the part
that encloses the drive itself, separately, which would be even cheaper.
But having the removable rack is convenient for occasionally putting the
drive into your box, maybe swapping out with another drive for backups.
 
If I was in the market for one right now, I would buy this one:

http://www.buy.com/prod/Western_Dig...0RPM_W/Cable_AC_Power/q/loc/450/10357139.html

$147.99 after rebate, free shipping and it looks really cool too.
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Looks good, nice price, but 120GB "JB" series is the older, much louder,
whiney ball-bearing design. IMHO, there is no good reason today to put up
with that whiney noise, except if, this being a USB drive, it'll only be
on long enough to make periodic backups. Then again, I suspect the
ball-bearing versions might be less shock resistant, worse overall for a
portable drive. I have no evidence that this is the case, but thinking
back to other devices with ball-bearings, they were always tolerant of
less shock.
 
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