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I appreciate advice and opinions. Buying an external hard drive is incidental to what I'm actually doing, but since I want one, I thought it'd be a good thread to start so I can be educated on the matter at the same time. With that said, have at it. Opinions welcome.
If all you're looking for is back up pictures and what not - don't really need a HDD. Get a flash drive from amazon. I was able to pick up a 128gb one for 50 bucks on sale.
I do have a HDD to hold all my digital movies/ TV shows, etc as well as pictures. However I was a raid system for those.
I'm sure once I have one, I'll find all kinds of things to fill it with.
If you just want an external drive, and the one you linked is in your price range at the store you want to buy from, then it is not a bad choice.
The only drives I really tell people to stay away from are toshiba's, had a client that insisted on using them for "backups" 3 times they had to pay $1500 for data recovery when they failed, they kept using the same drive since when it failed toshiba sent them a replacement.
Just remember, it is not if it will fail, but when it will fail