Portable Hard Drive choices?

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  1. mike.m

    mike.m Regular member

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    Looking to get a Portable External Hard Drive, 500GB-1TB. As of right now, which brand is the fastest (read/write speeds) for around $150?

    Will be using it for data backups, and for playing Full HD movies with the WD TV Live HD Media player.
    Thanks.
     
  2. sapatrick

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    I recommend a internal w/ enclosure case of some sorts i have never had any luck with external drives ther all slow and lots of head aches i went with the Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD7500KEVT 750GB 5200 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive and AZiO ENC211S31 Aluminum Case Body 2.5" Black USB 2.0 External Enclosure - Retail combo and i have dropped it several times and still works 100%.
     

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