Requesting advice on external drives

[Star]

I need to buy an external drive 232+ GB in order to have my Carbonite make a mirror image of my laptop. Can some of you please check these out and give me some opinions?

 

http://www.frys.com/search?query_search=&cat=-69562&pType=pDisplay&fq=100385%20500&sort=price%20asc&start=0&cat=-69562&from=0&to=24

 

Thanks for your input,

Star

[TV_Tech]

I'm partial to WD but that's not entirely carved in stone. 

[Stormy]

I have two externals, a WD and a Seagate, I really can't tell the difference, although I'm not sure I'd bother with a USB 3.0 if your USB ports are 2.0. I'm no expert on the difference though, just my 2 cents worth.

[Koach]

You have a million options.

 

I have two Samsung EVO series SSDs and like them. But, WD is good too.

You'll need some kind of an external case to give you power for the drive and will also give you a USB port to connect to.

 

Here is a place I have ordered from before, but once you decide what you want, you could check Amazon as well.

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=5298

 

Here is an example of an easy to use, and cheap to buy external enclosure.

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3743049&CatId=2781

 

There may be better options to adding a larger drive and perhaps people will chime in with better ideas.

[Smiley]

I have a one Gig external I got from Tiger, it has USB 2 line (the highest speed that my old computer's usb bus will handle, and it has a little power supply transformer similar to what you would have with a laptop computer.  If you want to lug it around with the laptop, then you would want to go with one of the passport types, they are designed specifically for portability.   Winchester and Seagate are both excellent manufacturers, and I have used both as replacements or extra drives to the factory installed ones.

[Star]

Oh my. I'm overwhelmed by all this input. Thanks to all of you. I need a bit of time to digest (aka understand) all of this.