[You]

I'm looking for a new external hard drive, something around 100-150GB's (or maybe 160) and had a few questions for you folks.

What brands do you suggest?
Is the "One Button Back-up" any good on some of these drives?
Are there ones I can piggy back so I can add more drives in the future without having to run 10 wires to my computer?

 

[YZFRob]

Yeah theres one you can piggy back, but cant think of the brand. Best Buy sold it last I seen.

I have a Buslink 80GB USB2.0/firewire. Nice thing is you can later put bigger HD's in them also. if you want.

 

[Riceaholic]

I have 2 Acom Data 250 gig and 1 Acom 80 gig externals. The 80's been running non stop for the last 3 years with no problems. I don't recall what I paid for them but I know they were relatively inexpensive at Comp USA.

 

[YZFRob]

http://acomdata.com/rpp/fs.html

Check these out Brett

 

[You]

http://acomdata.com/rpp/fs.html

Check these out Brett

That's actually perfect since I also want a DVD-RW drive. Now the question is, how good are they, are they reliable, etc. I got to do some research on them.

 

[Mike Reyna]

Maxtor. :thumb

 

[Jet]

are externals only good for storage?
Could I play games off it, smaller games like rom files?

 

[N2O Junkie]

i run ANSYS, Unigraphics, and play music off my external. Its a acomdata 80 gig I picked up for 60 bucks. USB 2.0/firewire. Got it from Compusa

 

[Jet]

can it play movies too?

 

[You]

can it play movies too?

I'm sure you wouldn't have a problem playing a movie when using USB2.0 or Firewire.