External hard drives

[PSPduh]

Hi all,
all of my south park episodes are filling up my small 30GB hard drive
so I thought I should just get an external hard drive so that'll free up some space on my small hard drive.
Thing is I don't know jack about external hard drives.
Is this any good?

I've heard about thumb nails or w/e but I don't know.

[3rd person]
Once again PSPduh needs fellow QJ'ers to enlighten him.
[/3rd person]

I'm not spending above $100 for an external hard drive. Newegg sells them really cheap, or so I see.

So suggest me a good bang-for-my-buck external hard drive or thumb nail drive or whatever that is outside of my compooper that has a lot of space.

[Hooger]

to get cheaper yet. buy an internal one. then buy an HDD enclosure. preferably with firewire and usb. because firewire is a hell of alot faster.

thats cheaper. my dad bought a 200gb (or 150 or something i forget) internal for like 50$ (on sale i think) and a cheap ass enclosure BAM instant savings

[PSPduh]

Originally Posted by Hooger

to get cheaper yet. buy an internal one. then buy an HDD enclosure. preferably with firewire and usb. because firewire is a hell of alot faster.

thats cheaper. my dad bought a 200gb (or 150 or something i forget) internal for like 50$ (on sale i think) and a cheap ass enclosure BAM instant savings

Dude you gotta give me links and explain what the **** your talking about.
Firewire?
HDD enclosure?
Wouldn't I lose everything on my current HD?

[PopeOfDope]

Basically you buy a hard drive. Here are some good ones.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=
Then you buy an external enclosure to put the hard drive into. Examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=

...and there you go, you just made an external hard drive at a fraction of the cost.

If you don't know what firewire is, chances are you probably don't have it.

[PSPduh]

Originally Posted by PopeOfDope

Basically you buy a hard drive. Here are some good ones.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=
Then you buy an external enclosure to put the hard drive into. Examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=

...and there you go, you just made an external hard drive at a fraction of the cost.

If you don't know what firewire is, chances are you probably don't have it.

Thanks for the links,
but wouldn't I lose all the stuff on my current hard drive?
If so then I have to find a way to transfer the most important stuff...which is probably like 5 - 10 GB of my hard drive is really important.

[PopeOfDope]

Well you wouldn't loose anything on your existing hard drive since you aren't going to do anything to it.

One you have put the hard drive into the enclosure, plug it into your PC via the USB port, format it, then drag your South Park episodes onto the USB hard drive and store it away.

[PSPduh]

Originally Posted by PopeOfDope

Well you wouldn't loose anything on your existing hard drive since you aren't going to do anything to it.

One you have put the hard drive into the enclosure, plug it into your PC via the USB port, format it, then drag your South Park episodes onto the USB hard drive and store it away.

OH I GET IT.
I thought I was taking out my current hard drive.
D'OH!

And what enclosure is good? Any one?

[PopeOfDope]

Vantec and AMS make good enclosures.
When picking one out, check the following:
The internal interface is the same as the hard drive interface that you selected.
The enclosure comes with an AC adapter.
The enclosure has a USB external interface.

Personally I would go with this but it is a bit on the expensive side at $50. A cheaper alternative is this

In both cases, use a Seagate SATA 3.5" hard drive. The size is up to you

[twelve]

Originally Posted by PopeOfDope

Basically you buy a hard drive. Here are some good ones.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=
Then you buy an external enclosure to put the hard drive into. Examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=

...and there you go, you just made an external hard drive at a fraction of the cost.

If you don't know what firewire is, chances are you probably don't have it.

Chances are with a 30GB internal HDD that it doesn't have firewire. I haven't seen a PC with that little amount of HDD space for ages.

[PopeOfDope]

Originally Posted by Dr_Phil

Chances are with a 30GB internal HDD that it doesn't have firewire. I haven't seen a PC with that little amount of HDD space for ages.

Even newer PCs can come without a firewire port, it seems to be more of a Mac thing. The PC I built doesn't even have firewire, but at least it has eSATA which is much more awesome.

My older PC has 30Gb on it but I just use it as a makeshift media center and stream all my videos off my main PC. A 800MHz Pentium II is hardly enough to play back HD content . I would overclock it but I can't seem to find any socket 370 heatsinks around.