External hard drive or dvd burner?

[dotsncoms]

<p>&nbsp;I need to make some space on my hard drive. Would you use an external hard drive or a dvd burner to save your files?</p>

[suggums]

its all about porn storage maintenance.&nbsp; out with the old, in with the new<br />

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>It depends - if you aren't going to be accessing the data a lot, I would get a USB enclosure and a hard drive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cheaper than an out-and-out external HD, more conveient and better transfer times than the DVD burner.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Tenbatsuzen]

Wait - do you already have all the HD slots on your computer taken up?&nbsp; If not, I'd just add a second HD.&nbsp;

[zentraed]

<p>External hard drives are much more convenient than DVDs. You don't have to decide which 4.3 GB to put on the disc, how to label it, where to keep them, how to find them later, etc. If you storing really important things, you should store two copies in different locations.</p><p>I have a serious downloading problem, so I have a closet full of burned CDs, a dresser covered in burned DVDs, a few old hard drives I bought enclosures for, and a file server that I'd like to expand from 500GB. The file server's by far the nicest solution, but with an external hard drive, you can take a LOT of data with you. If you really need to burn DVDs, just get a cheap internal model.<br /></p>

[PaulF]

<p>I also have a number of external enclosures loaded with hard drives, as well as burnt DVDs.</p><p>I find the hard drive much more useful for stuff I will access frequently (music, etc) or I know I will eventually delete (images of hard drives prior to upgrades or just for backup purposes). Also with the hard drives, I can move files around and in the case of music, retag them without having to burn a new copy of the disc it was on.</p>

[fohat]

<p>Be careful what kind of enclosure you buy.&nbsp; I've gone with the 25-30$ ones (fanless, give off alot of heat) and had three different models fail on me (3 different Hard Disks also); it seems the IDE controller fry's and takes out the master boot record.&nbsp; I'm able to save the data after a fixing the master boot record however.&nbsp;</p><p> I've had really good performance from LaCie drives, their &quot;porsche&quot; series is fairly affordable.&nbsp; Also have a Western Digital one that looks like a book, it works great too.&nbsp; If you buy your own external case to put your own drive in, check out Adaptec.</p><p>If you don't have a DVD burner, the internal ones are under 50$ if you have a free bay.&nbsp; I got my external dual layer LaCie for not much over 100$ from Newegg.com&nbsp; (dual layer holds about 2x as much data as a normal DVD but the discs are bloody expensive)<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hope that helps ya budday&nbsp;</p>

[dotsncoms]

Thank you for the help<br />

[fohat]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>dotsncoms</strong> wrote:<br />Thank you for the help<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have it on good authority, that on &quot;black friday&quot; Best Buy will have an external Western Digital hard drive, 250GB for like 60 bucks.&nbsp; I think there will also be an internal Seagate for even less.&nbsp; Also they'll have a 1GB flash drive about 15 bucks.&nbsp; You heard it hear first!&nbsp; (Or perhaps second)<br /></p>

[aceofspades7]

<p>these are really nice enclosures:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817332007" target="_self">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817332007</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[dotsncoms]

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/online.php#bestbuy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought 2 western digital Mybooks for 69.99 bucks each online.