Does Lexar put out a line of external hard drives?
I have one of their thumb drives that has served me well.
Cliff Smales
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scorpio Forever" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] need recommandation on external hard drives
First and foremost, I disagree with the gentleman that said it mattered
what
type of hard drive manufacturer you decide to opt for.
Western Digital drives use Seagate drives, and the only thing you're
actually paying for is the name, so, you'll end up paying an extra 50 to
80
dollars just because you opted to go with a name brand rather than the
lesser known names like LACI or Razor, both of which use Seagate drives in
their enclosures.
In fact, the biggest consideration when purchasing an external drive is
what
type of enclosure you'd like to get, either a self powered one, which
means
forget about plugging it into a USB 1.0 port, or an enclosure that
utilizes
an outside power source like an AC Adapter.
The second consideration is the type of interface you want to choose. For
the price the gentleman stated of 160 dollars, you'll end up paying for a
1
TB drive from Western Digital and you'll have to end up with a USB
connection, when, for the same price, you can shop around, not go with a
name brand drive, and get one with a higher seek time and RPM, multiple
interfaces like network connectivity, which means you'll be able to access
it across the board on all of your computers connected to the same network
independently of a second computer, or firewire and SCSI interfaces.
Either
way, don't flush money down the toilet going for a name brand when the
enclosure is more apt to fail than the drive, assuming no accidents
happen.
I just purchased a rugged 2.5 terabyte drive which can be dropped from a
height of three to four feet and it won't get damaged. It cost me all of
110 dollars at Best Buy, and it's a LACI drive, which, as I mentioned,
uses
Seagate drives inside their enclosures.
Speaking of the drive I purchased, . I just remembered another
consideration you may want to consider, especially if you're going to be
sitting this drive on an unstable surface that rocks just from the typing
action of your keyboard.
Get a drive/enclosure that doesn't require it stand up on it's end, and
must
lay down on it's side.
I don't want to tell you the number of horror stories I've heard of people
who've bumped their desks with their hips, *I mean, we are blind after
all*,
and then hear a clunk when their hard drives tip over, then they're
surprised that they can't access their drives and it's ticking like a time
bomb. Smiles.
Either way, I would seriously not recommend you get a name brand drive
like
Western Digital, and pick yourself up a more economical drive that is
loaded
with features and not branding, I can almost guarantee you won't be
disappointed.
Scorpio
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