External Hard Drive Required

I have had a 30 GB external hard drive I bought for $200 for 6 years now, it has saved me so many times. I think that everyone should have an external hard drive, they save your @$$ over and over again. Now days you can buy a 400 gig external hardrive for $400, or buy a 40 gig hard drive as small as a small T.V remote for $200.
Trust me, if you buy an external hard drive you won't regret it.

I agree..but whats the point of the thread?

To tell people just how important an external hard drive really is.

How so?.. An external hd is useful if you need to large data to carry around all the time. If not, it just sits there plus its slower as in data transfer rate. A secondary internal harddisk or a third will be useful. Or have data redundancy and setup a RAID.

Reasons why external hard drives are better:
You can bring them anywhere, including your friends house, and on trips.
They are much harder for viruses to get to.
You can get them in speeds as fast as an internal hard drive

Reason why internal hard drives are better:
Cheaper

There's this thing called options and needs. I don't need one and its definately not a requirement. An external HD is an optional accessory. Good to have, but not needed. There's lots of large sized thumbdrives which are so much smaller and cheaper.

I have a 15gb external HD called an "iPod". :D

lol, yeah thats always nice

I have a few of these laying around. http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/AberNAS.htm

*yeah right*

Whoa... 3 Terrabytes... I might save up for one of those lol.