[jqp]

Well this week I picked up something that I was not that attracted to in the past - a MyBook external drive.

I need more space and my PC has all the SATA connections taken up by my 4 SATA drives.

This is a black, book-shaped USB hard drive. These Western Digital drives were not the cheapest especially in the 150-250GB range. I got the 500GB version at Circuit City for $179 - .35/GB - I can certainly live with this and did not want 2 250GB external drives.

You can get this from NewEgg for a couple dollars less even after shipping but I have it now...

There are a few factors that made me pick this up now

- I wanted a full 500GB drive.
- price is reasonable for 500GB, about the cheapest I could find for an external unit.
- drive looks nice (black and unobtrusive) and will like good sitting next to a future HTPC/gaming console.
- this drive turns on and off with the PC! That is a nice feature that not all of these external USB drives have
- not very important but comes with Google file indexing software that I will check out.

This is hopefully the last storage purchase I make before going to an eSata solution...

[8thnerve]

I use three of these and I'm very happy with them.

[launche]

I have two (400GB) of them and I am happy with them as well.

[rbrb]

Do they give off much noise?

[woodsyi]

It is fairly quiet but I only use it for hard backup copy.  BTW, it can be ordered from Dell Business for $164.25 plus tax with free shipping. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=A0616000

[randytsuch]

Here is another deal, have no idea if it's any good or not, but after rebate, $130 for a 500G external, with free shipping

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=203268361&adid=17654&dcaid=17654

Randy