1 TB External Hard Drive: Do they work fine?

[Sushubh]

nice. i bought internal for 4500 so these prices are pretty good. i guess these are with power adaptors.

 

[ranjitonly]

Yup these are the prices for the retail box pack.Rgds...

 

[tartutic07]

1 TB costs around 5K (prob little less)I think ur sys will bcom very slow.

 

[cavier]

Hi guys, I plan to buy a 1 TB Seagate External HDD. I have a 2.2 GHtz system, & 2 GB RAM, Sata.Can anyone tell me the difference between 2.5'' & 3.5" specifications, & how do they really matter?Also, please tell me if 7200 RPM speed will be Okay for this configuration, or do I need a higher speed?Hoping for early responses.

 

[Sushubh]

you are talking about external hard drive... i do not think you have many options when it comes to drive speeds... the newer ones do not require power adapter. the older ones require power adapters. i think 3.5" would be the bigger ones requiring power from an external source. 2.5" would be laptop drives capable of running on USB alone.

 

[cavier]

I have a PC. So want to be sure about this 2.5" & 3.5" dilemma, before I place an online order. Here's one, but they don't mention this aspect:

Seagate 1tb External Desktop Hard Disk Drive gifts in india at rediff shopping.

It requires a power adapter, as mentioned. Could be an old model.

 

[Sushubh]

DUDE. external hard drives. you do not put them in your cabinet. it has nothing to do with your computer requirements. you connect them to the power supplies. you connect them to your PC with a USB cable. that's it. it works like a pen drive. what are you worried about?

 

[Sushubh]

here is one without external power requirements... Seagate - ST910004FAA2E1-RK - Buy.com

 

[moindear]

I recently bought a WD 1 TB ext hard diskI think WD is better as there are no complaints compared to seagate which has many issues (google for seagate issues)These ext hard disks work with any configuration, the difference may be in the transfer speedsMy desktop with 1.8Mhz and 384 MB RAM worked great with my 500 GB Ext hard disk, only the transfer was slow.ps: Be careful, the external hard drives do have bad sectors problem. I lost one Ext HD due to that.

 

[Notam]

I got TB Segate External with Power Adopter & 500GB Segate which doesn't need any external Power .Both are Working Fine. Been using them for last Six Months