External HD vs HD + External Enclosure
rolleggroll
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Is there a big difference when purchasing an External HD by itself vs an HD + external enclosure? Can someone explain the pro's and con's to both sides please? Which one is better to use when you have to backup files, so I don't lose my important files when formatting and so I don't have to burn 20+ dvd-r's full of data.
I am willing to spend around $100 give or take a little. I am exlcusively buying from newegg.com since there is no good place around my area to buy computer equipment.
Thanks in advance.
I am willing to spend around $100 give or take a little. I am exlcusively buying from newegg.com since there is no good place around my area to buy computer equipment.
Thanks in advance.
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Eggroll, I would recommend getting an external enclosure of your choice and a hard drive of your choice. There are tremendous deals on hard drives these days. You can probably get a high performance hard drive plus and good enclosure for less than the price of a mediocre kit drive of the same storage capacity. If you do get an external enclosure without drive, I would go with a SATA drive. In the future if you wish to upgrade the hard drive in the enclosure, you don't want to be limited to PATA (IDE), which probably may not be available in two or three years.
If you want the convenience of a ready-made external drive, please get a major manufacturer like Western Digital, Samsung, or Seagate. Those brands will most certainly contain a hard drive with good performance specifications.
Thanks for the advice!