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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

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. When my original Maxtor 250GB drive died at just over a year old (my fault because I didn't know any better and kept it powered on 24/7 instead of turning it off when not in use), I shopped around and it seemed like there were pretty much equal numbers of reported problems with virtually everything I looked at.

I ended up with another Maxtor, 300GB this time, and it's been great. I just turn it off except when I'm actually reading from it or writing to it, so it doesn't overheat and doesn't burn out the drive.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Hey, I am taking that into consideration - because I just ordered a Maxtor. *g* Note to self: turn off. But yay, thank you! Maxtor got the most mentions, and it seemed a good deal. (I got the 200GB one.) Thank you! :D