[ale] External HDD (non?)recommendations

[m-aaron-r]

Rather than a dedicated case, the external docking bays seem
like a good idea.  I'm considering this one:

<http://www.ixbay.com/en/dual-3-5-2-5-sata-ide-hdd-dock-docking-station-sd-usb.html 
 >

An ideal unit for me would have a 1394a (or b) Firewire interface, but
this one at least has eSata. Only thing that's not 100% clear is if the
eSata will address drives in the EIDE/PATA sockets or if you have to
fall back to USB for those.

peace
aaron

On 2010/05/31, at 10:03 , Ken Cochran wrote:

> Hey y'all, any recommendations/non-recommendations about
> external HDDs?  Looking for USB/Firewire & maybe eSATA.
> What are some good (or not so good) ones?  Sometime back,
> when I asked at a college bookstore, they indicated that they
> like LaCie, because at the time they held up pretty well with
> Evil Students (who tend to drop or otherwise mistreat them)
> and they didn't get a lot of returns compared to others.  Or,
> would I do better building something from a (external/portable)
> case and separate HDD (suggestion for a make/model)?  Capacity
> isn't super important - looks like everything nowadays is at
> least 500gb - looking more for reliability.  Ideas?
>
> Thanks, -kc
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