External Drives

[Hans Fugal]

It's time to play the hardware advice game again.

I'm out of disk space. On my laptop, on my workstation, everywhere I
turn. I'm too poor/cheap to go get a huge drive for the workstation. I'm
definitely too poor/cheap to replace the drive in my laptop. So I'm
thinking an external drive might be the way to go.

Here's my criteria, in order of importance:

- Price. Did I mention I'm cheap?
- Decent speed, not necessarily bleeding edge high performance, but I
  will be compiling copious amounts of code on it daily.
- Decent size. 10G would be plenty, 40G+ would be niiice
- USB 2.0, because my workstation doesn't have firewire

Powered through the usb port would be nice, if it's reliable.

I thought this would be an easy thing to decide, but there seem to be a
lot more factors at play, upon closer inspection. Disk speed, transfer
rates, power issues, etc. So do any of you have
recommendations/warnings?

-- 
Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
 
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the 
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
    -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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