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The drives themselves vary greatly from month to month. One time, Seagate will put out a
batch of crappy of drives, the next month Western Digital will have a bad run, then Hitachi
will have a bad run while Seagate has great ones. So brand doesn't tell you hardly
anything about quality. For standard external drives, it really comes down to cooling.
Get one with a well ventilated case. With a fan is best if you don't mind the noise.
Tigerdirect and other sites sell enclosures separate from drives if you want to have
more choices. Some of the Western Digital drives have other neat features, such as
being accessible over the network. The Western Digital My Book World Edition, for example,
hides a full Linux file server in it's case, which looks like any other external drive. You can
access your files from any computer on the network, either through Windows Explorer as
drive, through the browser, or even FTP. Those are the default features. With a little knowledge,
you could actually run your site from the Word Edition, using it as your web serve.
(After all, it's admin GUI is a set of web pages running CGI scripts ...)
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