Good price on external HD?
 

Hi everyone. I'm thinking of purchasing an external hard drive to store media (since my computer's hard drive is tiny) and to lug it around on trips instead of binders of dvds. I saw this one on futureshop's website
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0077170&catid=

I was wondering if it was a good deal and/or product.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

sometimes I see them for $99 for a USB enclosure and a large drive...I watch them on Techbargains.com

Cavalry 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Hard Drive $89.95 Free Shipping - September 16, 2006
Buy.com has the Cavalry 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Hard Drive with enclosure USB 2.0 for a low $89.95 after rebate. Free shipping. Tax in CA, MA, MD, TN.
$10 rebate Exp 9/30/06 Similar Deals

I bought a Seagate 250GB 7200RPM IDE HDD with 5 years warranty and a Cooler Master XCraft external enclosure with USB2.0 interface for

RM 295 + RM 150 = RM 445

That converts to about.. USD 118.

A good casing matters so that the HDD doesn't heat up too much. Good warranty matters so that you can get RMA-ed when it gets bad sectors.

I found this one also on the futureshop website: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0075519&catid=

It says nothing about the casing, but claims the hard drive is cool-running. Any thoughts?

Would any of you dissuade me from getting the first one? I don't really want to spend $270 for the one in this post, but I guess I would spend that much (either on this one or something else) if it really is that much better ie: won't break in a few years.

I would prefer to get a case that is seperate from the drive, this gives more vesatility where you could buy a 250Gb drive today, and later you could buy a 800Gb and put in in the same case...

it also gives you the ability to reuse some old drives or help out a friend with an old drive to a new computer.

I was just about to post something about this.

One of my friends suggested I get a separate case and use a normal internal hard drive.

It sounds like a good plan, i'll see how much this is going to cost me.

I recieved this offer in my e-mail

http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/categ...keycode=284339


250GB Western Digital External Drive for $99.99 after rebate at Circuit City

a good drive, but again, I prefer one that I can use a housing and then install my own drive as drive sizes get larger. Also I'd like to recycle my old drives into something more useful than a paperweight.