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Heya folks, im looking for a new external hard drive, largest possible size available in Perth, (in-store please), i have around $150 AUD to spend and would like to know which is the best?

Not Western Digital.

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Originally posted by Eddie
Heya folks, im looking for a new external hard drive, largest possible size available in Perth, (in-store please), i have around $150 AUD to spend and would like to know which is the best?

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lol, your pretty much wanting us to do your shopping for you.
Anyway we could all probs help you out with the size and cost but what store to get it from will be hard because there's like only 1 person who lives in perth and that's phillip lol.

anyway, i would suggest you go with Seagate and for around about 140 dollars you can pickup a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM 32MB SATA 3Gbs.  Thats pretty much the best you will get.

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Originally posted by Th3rmal
Not Western Digital.

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I have a WD,  it's fine,  I like it and they are ultra portable

i love my WD 1TB... though its about AU$175 atm... so that might be a little pricey for you... but you arent gonna get the quality if you opt for a lower brand and slightly higher space...

i love and only use WD...

I disagree,

I have
2 500GB Seagate
and 2 500GB WD

(and a 1.5TB Seagate)

And so far neither has had anything wrong with them, so from a statistical point of view, in my experience, whichever is cheaper, go get it

Seagate and WD are the ones to go with, i just prefer WD... mainly because i dont see Seagate as much and havent really used them before...

Well I have a WD, and the adapter broke within 3 months of having it, and it was a proprietary plug so I couldnt just buy a new adapter, ended up paying extra for a new housing.

Maybe mine was just bad luck, go with WD i guess.

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Originally posted by nimicitor
WESTERN DIGITAL ARE #1!

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you present a strong case

What are you looking for? USB? eSata (Firewire?)

Also, are you looking for an all-in-one product which may make it harder if you want to replace the drive after a while, or do you want a generic external drive enclosure so you can buy any drive to put in it. Or are you looking for something portable (2.5 inch drives in a slim enclosure)?

Or do you want an ultra cool stand that allows you to insert bare drives on the fly so you can use any spare drive you have lying around?


As for the actual harddisk itself. If it's not connected via eSata it really doesn't matter much what drive you put in there as you will never use it so its full speed anyway.