Fast External Harddisk recommendation needed

phuile <phuile.DeleteThis@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I need to get an external harddisk for connecting to my Dell laptop.

> This is basically to expand the disk space of my laptop so I can
> install more apps to run on it (one of it being Flight Simulator).
> I would like to know what's the best one to get.

I'd avoid the Maxtors, they dont cool the drives
very well at all and die like flys because they dont.

> The external HD can be connected either via USB or Firewire,
> which should I be looking at if I need to stream media?

Both will do that fine as long as you have USB2.

> Basically, I need some good suggestions of which one to get.

I personally prefer to buy a decent housing separately
and put a normal drive in that. That way you get the full
3-5 year warranty rather than the universal 1 year
warranty that the packaged external drives have.

That does require more of you than taking a packaged drive out of the box tho.
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