External Hard Drive Issues & Questions

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If you prefer to go light and portable, the fastest 2.5 inch (laptop) 
drive at the moment is the Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 7K60 (60GB, 7200rpm, 
8MB cache), according to Barefeats.com. They also make an 80 gigger but 
it's not as fast.

I have a 7K60 in a Weibetech MicroGB800 case and, again according to 
Barefeats, this combo out performs 3.5 inch drives in a Firewire 400 
case. You can use Firewire 800 with 400 ports, but only get 400 speeds. 
The set up is still a tad expensive, but fits nicely in your shirt 
pocket :-)

<http://www.hgst.com/hdd/travel/tr7k60.htm>
<http://www.wiebetech.com/products/microgb800.html>

Rick


> So what do all of you use for external hard drives? Any
> recommendations for a desktop vs notebook? Any drives that have
> exceptional quality and reliability? Anything manufacturers or
> resellers I should avoid like the black death?