I need an external Hard Drive

[Irving]

I appreciate advice and opinions. Buying an external hard drive is incidental to what I'm actually doing, but since I want one, I thought it'd be a good thread to start so I can be educated on the matter at the same time. With that said, have at it. Opinions welcome.

[Madeinhb]

If all you're looking for is back up pictures and what not - don't really need a HDD. Get a flash drive from amazon. I was able to pick up a 128gb one for 50 bucks on sale.

I do have a HDD to hold all my digital movies/ TV shows, etc as well as pictures. However I was a raid system for those.

[Irving]

I'm sure once I have one, I'll find all kinds of things to fill it with.

[thedave1164]

If you just want an external drive, and the one you linked is in your price range at the store you want to buy from, then it is not a bad choice.

The only drives I really tell people to stay away from are toshiba's, had a client that insisted on using them for "backups" 3 times they had to pay $1500 for data recovery when they failed, they kept using the same drive since when it failed toshiba sent them a replacement.

Just remember, it is not if it will fail, but when it will fail