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[mrsronweasley]

I have spent the past hour reading external hard drive reviews on Amazon and a few other places, and I've got it all coming out of my EARS and now I'm even more paranoid about which one to buy, and ACK.

So, I come to you, friends' list, for help:

Any recommendations?

I really need to buy one SOON, or I will kill my computer. This would be bad. Buying an external hard drive would be preferable to computer demise.

So far, I've looked at Seagate, Maxtor and SimpleTech SimpleDrive. And the reviews are no help, because they vary, and I don't know who to trust. It's all kind of annoying - mostly because I don't know that much about computer technology, and also have really bad luck with it. So, I'm ULTRA-paranoid.

So...help? Seriously, any help would be appreciated.

Comments

[twentyfourhours.livejournal.com]

I have a 160GB Maxtor external HD from when I used to have a laptop, and have never had any problems with it. It comes with this automatic backup software called Retrospect or something that literally zooooooooms everything you want onto the disk at the touch of a button. And it seems pretty robust, as I've dropped mine a few times and haven't broken it yet

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

I went with the Maxtor. It'll all be on your head! *g* Just kidding. Hopefully it should be fine. Yeah? Yeah. We'll see. :D Thank you!