Tuesday, December 30, 2008

External Hard Drive

I need to get one to store thousands of photos and lots of short videos... any recommendations for a brand/type of external hard drive, under $100?

I've been saving photos/videos to CDs, and recently one disc of videos of my son is now not responding when I insert in in my laptop, which probably means I didn't burn the videos on it right (but I usually check that things go on discs when I burn), or for some reason the disc is worthless now... I need something easier and more reliable than the many CDs I have accumulated since my son was born...

5 comments:

ReBecca Foster said...

This is what I have and I really like it: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8935833&type=product&id=1215216548970

Michael D. Barton, FCD said...

Thanks, ReBecca, for your suggestion!

ReBecca Foster said...

Anytime. After my computer crash in May I have used this thing alot and I am really glad to have it. It also came with a free trial of a sync program, which I ended up buying and run on both my PC and laptop.

Danny Boy, FCD said...

After losing gigabytes of irreplaceable personal files on hard drives (all hard drives will peter out eventually), I finally decided to get online storage. Online services are great for archiving rarely-used files (baby pictures, home videos). Microsoft has a free service called SkyDrive, which gives you 25 GB of online storage (100 MB limit per file), while other sites vary in free storage (Humyo - 10 GB, Dropbox - 2 GB, Mozy - 2 GB). I am currently testing LiveDrive (for free), but I plan to get the premium (fee-based) service when it launches.

Anonymous said...

I just bought one of these http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012GQZZU and I really like it. 320GB for $93 can't be too bad.