My Maxtor 250gb hard drive is nearly full up and I was just about to purchase a 500gb lacie until i read a number of horror stories on the web about this drive being very unreliable. Now I don't know which way to go with it should i buy a smaller capacity drive or maybe an internal for my ageing 450ghz sawtooth powermac?
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which external 500gb hard drive to buy?
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very easily
take some large photoshop files then add a few home directory backups lots of photos movies music and voila
take some large photoshop files then add a few home directory backups lots of photos movies music and voila
maby throw in a few torrents and you've got a perfect mix! 
No.. on a serious note, I think the best cost to storage ratio is 250gigs. I don't know if this is true with external harddrives, but it is with internal. I would recommend building an external drive. I got some amazing deals at outpost.com a while back. I think there was a deal for a 300gig hdd for $100. You could get two of those for much less than a single 500gig drive.
No.. on a serious note, I think the best cost to storage ratio is 250gigs. I don't know if this is true with external harddrives, but it is with internal. I would recommend building an external drive. I got some amazing deals at outpost.com a while back. I think there was a deal for a 300gig hdd for $100. You could get two of those for much less than a single 500gig drive.