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Data dumping ground: external hard drives | More resources |
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 Felisa Yang, section editor |
Gone are the days of picking and choosing what to keep and what to get rid of. With hundreds of gigabytes of storage in a compact external hard drive, you can keep it all and deal with it at your leisure. Not all external hard disk drives are created equal, though. The simplest (and least expensive) plug right into your PC via USB or FireWire connectors. Network-attached options let you share the space with others, so you can all access the same movies and digital photos. Buffalo's LinkStation even includes a print server, so all the machines in your home can use the same printer. Whatever you choose, you'll be hard-pressed to fill up all that space.
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Buffalo LinkStation 250GB |
Maxtor OneTouch II (300GB) |
LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface (250GB) |
Maxtor Shared Storage Plus Drive (300GB) |
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| Review date | September 29, 2004 | November 17, 2004 | February 15, 2005 | March 6, 2006 |
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7.3
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| Review summary | Buffalo's LinkStation is the best low-cost solution for adding storage and a print server to a home or small-business network. | Maxtor's OneTouch II external hard drive makes a good thing even better, with 250GB to 300GB's worth of one-button backups, but be warned: it eliminates any excuses for not backing up a computer. | Stylish FireWire 800 performance that's as cheap as the slower mainstream competition. | Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it. |
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| User comments | 5.3 Average (from 39 users) | 3.7 Poor (from 75 users) | 5.0 Average (from 34 users) | 5.0 Average (from 20 users) |
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• NAS server • 4 lbs • Microsoft Windows • 250 GB Full specifications |
• IEEE 1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB • 7200 rpm • Hard drive • 3.1 lbs • 1 year warranty • 300 GB • 9 ms Full specifications |
• IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB • 7200 rpm • Hard drive • 3.3 lbs • 250 GB • 10 ms Full specifications |
• NAS server • 3.7 lbs • Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP • 300 GB Full specifications |
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