External Drives

[Nick Barker]

here is one for 60$... they have others as well.
http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=DRV10893


On 5/25/06, Hans Fugal <hans at fugal.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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Nick Barker
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