[ale] usb external drive recommendations needed

[James P. Kinney III]

MicroCenter has an external case that takes a SATA drive. Case is about
$40 for the USB2.0/eSATA version. Add your own SATA drive (300GB ~
$100).

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 09:49 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
> as the subject indicates...
> 
> i am having to do some video editing and conversion (VHS and 8mm to DVD)
> of my daughter's birth / birthday's / etc. for my ex-wife so i will need
> a sizable drive and would like it reasonably portable so maybe it could
> fit into my backpack with my laptop.  a good deal would be high up on my
> list too...
> 
> also, has anyone had issues with syncing, data loss, etc. with using usb
> external drives?  having one of these large files corrupt because of
> some transfer issue would not make for a happy day.
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