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My current one died. Windows doesn't recognize it and can't find the installation files. I installed it in January. I've restarted, no use.
Size isn't a particular concern (the 500GB one I had before wasn't even half full), reliability and speed are. Need a drive that won't overheat or otherwise shit itself when I'm running programs and playing games from it (my computer's drive is small.)
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Well, I'm pretty sure the drive simply overheated. This thing was running warm when the drive wasn't even accessible, just plugged in and not doing anything. To say nothing of how warm it got by the end of some nights.
Which sounds to me like the drive itself is probably damaged, but I'm really not a hardware person. Thing looks like it'll be a bitch to open, though - it's one of these
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | Generally I use a Samsung hard drive, one of those new one-platter dealies, I forgot the name, but they're sorta durable.
I dunno, as I never leave it running forever, out of fear that it will overheat and break.
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I have a Seagate "FreeAgent" external hard drive that has worked well so far, but I only got it this summer so I can't really vouch for long-term reliability...
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| 00:00:00 | Illumina Prevue Guide Emulator | POST #
5083 | I bought a Seagate 500GB external on clearance at Kmart a few months ago... although it's only really used for video storage, software storage, and games, so it rarely gets used (and it never gets unplugged from the computer, either) 
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I'd just buy a hard drive and get an external enclosure for it. Lets you reuse the enclosure and do whatever with the hard drive.
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Originally posted by Gig
I'd just buy a hard drive and get an external enclosure for it. Lets you reuse the enclosure and do whatever with the hard drive.
Can you elaborate on this? I don't mean to sound useless here, but I'd rather admit I don't know shit about hard drives than end up getting something that doesn't work or miss some parts or something.
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Any enclosure + any internal HD; I mean something like this where you provide your own (internal) HD.
That way, if the HD goes bad (or you want to move it into the computer, replace it with a larger one, etc) you're free to do so.
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