Opinions needed, should I upgrade my internal hard drive or get another external and use that as back up? I would daisy chain the second external to the one I already own. Thanks
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New internal or external hard drive
- Thread starter Edandlindz28
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considering it's an iBook, i'd say external. Only cause laptop hard drives are WAY easier to damage.
it will be painfully slow...particularly given the iBook doesn't have any card whatsoever supporting 802.11n
get a big fat external I love G-technology. a bit pricier, but the most reliable drives we've ever used. we haven't had great luck with LaCie HDs
definitely external. you pay thru the nose per gb with lappy drives.
look into assembling your own though - could save u some $$$. it's real easy - buy the case and then just shove the hd inside and there ya go!! get a cheap external case with firewire 400 and the biggest disk you can afford.
aussie_geek
look into assembling your own though - could save u some $$$. it's real easy - buy the case and then just shove the hd inside and there ya go!! get a cheap external case with firewire 400 and the biggest disk you can afford.
aussie_geek
Neither company makes HDs. Also, I have had zero failures with LaCie. I can only report 1 complaint; their original 1TB triple interface drive was noisy if it was close to you.
do you know what drives they use?
fw400 enclosures are usually more pricier than the usb2.0 ones
lacie was awful for me.
personally i'd rather assemble my own as I know what hard drive goes in there, and that means a lot to me.
Thanks, I think I will go with another 500gb ministack. I built the first one, I didn't know if it will help the computers performance out with a bigger internal HD.