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usurp
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
 
2006-01-21, 04:22

I need to get two external hard drives and I am wondering which is better. I "have" to get it from Amazon because I will be using gift vouchers. My options are

Western Digital 320 GB USB/Firewire External Hard Drive
$242


IOMEGA Black Series 250GB USB/Firewire External Hard Drive
$214

The WD is a better deal $0.75/GB compared to the $0.85/GB of the Iomega. But I was wondering if the Iomega drive is a better drive in general. Macworld seems to think the tripple interface version of the drive is the best drive ever.

Oh btw, any other recommendations would be great. One drive will be used for my weekly backups using Retrospect. The other drive is where I will be downloading movies onto. I am looking for 250GB minimum and it has to be from Amazon.

thank you

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