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    Default MB vs GB

    Can someone tell me the difference please? I'm shopping for a USB external hard drive.
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    Default Re: MB vs GB

    Don't buy Maxtor, get Seagate or Western Digital.

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    Default Re: MB vs GB

    Also, there are drives measured in TB, or Terabytes. That's one trillion bytes or 1000 gigabytes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aviendha View Post
    Don't buy Maxtor, get Seagate or Western Digital.
    not many left after that off the top of my head. they are most of the market. Ive always been OK with western digital.

    its quite possible that even if you buy something like sony or dell or whatever, its still one of those drives manufacturer inside

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    Default Re: MB vs GB

    LOL

    get at least 1 gig.

    no sense thinking about megabytes anymore, unless you are measuring single digital photos!

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    1,000 MB equals 1 GB.

    What are you going to be using it for? Alot of people use external drives for storing pics, vids, music , etc. type files.Basically, the more storage, the better.

    Seagate FreeAgentPro is supposed to be the best.

    http://www.consumersearch.com/www/co...ard%252BDrives

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    Quote Originally Posted by WoodyLV View Post
    not many left after that off the top of my head. they are most of the market. Ive always been OK with western digital.

    its quite possible that even if you buy something like sony or dell or whatever, its still one of those drives manufacturer inside
    No, I was saying to avoid Maxtor. Not to avoid WD or Seagate. Maxtor's quality is pretty inconsistent.

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    Thanks for all the info! I finally ended up just buying 16GB off Ebay last night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by la429 View Post
    Thanks for all the info! I finally ended up just buying 16GB off Ebay last night.
    The fun part about buying drives second-hand is that you can use a program like Recuva to see what the previous owner thought they deleted.

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    ^^^^ evil lol But what fun!

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