SillyDog701

[iJohnE]

I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good portable hard drives. I'm looking for something that I can put all my pictures and music on, that way I can use them both on my laptop and my desktop. I also want something that is going to be easy to take with me when I go on a trip or something.

Any recommendations?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11

[Antony]

Get a 2.5-inch portable HDD, preferably USB powered, so you can save carrying one extra powercord and an AC adaptor.

And I recommend LaCie Rugged Hard Disk for extra strength against physical shock an damaging.



(my blog entry for more detail.)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.1 Safari/530.18

[PaulD]

Similar [sdt=14825]question[/sdt], different reason, from a year ago.
Check the variety at http://www.westerndigital.com/en/. Both hard-drive and solid state storage are available. I have no judgment on the advisability of the solid state.
There is excellent educational/technical material on the site - see under the Support heading.
Other [sdp=84084]manufacturers[/sdp] (paragraph 7) also have web sites.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11

[richard mitnick]

I have used a Western Digital Passport 320 gig drive. I have use it at work, at home, on an airplane, in a hotel, whatever, wherever, no problemo.

You can now get a 500 gig unit for around US$100.00

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)