External Harddrive
 

Which one ? Looking for reliability, price and ease of installation.

Seagate FreeAgent Go

I have the 320GB. It's been very reliable, gets beat up a bit quite a bit and still works.

here's a link to new egg
 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-NA-_-NA-_-NA


around 80 clams

Fred - what size and what are you going to use it for?

Ya know, I don't know. I was asking on behalf of my little Sister. I sent her to Amazon.

Meanwhile, my desktop, has decided not to fire up. two year old dual amd processor HP. Push the button and the fans run at double speed. The little light that shows activity, doesn't come on. Am I looking at a new one?

the screen, is it just black ?

meaning it's not booting at all.....

yeah ! you might be.... FRED

assuming your seeing no messages

lint
 

sometimes the back of the PC's van vent
is completely covered in lint not allowing it to Cool itself

look at that scenario

Yep, first thing I did was open it up and blow it out, still has a black screen. Keyboard leds don't light either. I did have it start to boot once.

ok
 

ive had that happen before...

just make sure every connection is well seated

especially any electrical feeds .... i dunno if it's cheap creep
or what but sometimes they are loose

Could be a blown Processor or memory (some earlier AMD X2 ran hot and would smoke on a poor or dead CPU fan - see if that is turning) but more likely a Power Supply problem. Part of the PS working and part not...

I got a seagate portable drive , about the size of a new pack of file cards 3x5x1/2 inch. The thing works off the usb without being plugged into the wall. Has 500 GB memory and works right out of the box. Cost me $139. Got it at Walmart .com with site to store so no shipping charge. Worth looking at!

You probably have the same one I have. I love it. It has been beat up, and is still reliable.

I double checked and I only paid $104 for mine. I did get it through site to store at walmart.com