USB Hard Drive recommendation?

[over_the_hill]

I'm thinking about buying a 120GB Hard Drive. I'm thinking about buying a USB drive rather than another internal drive. I thought it might be nice and portable. According to NewEgg.com, the price difference is about $20.

Here's my questions:

1. Do these work pretty well?
2. Are they fast enough?
3. Can you run the same kind of defrag programs on them?
4. Any recommendations for Maxtor, WD, etc?

Thanks!

 

[wetling]

Well, even USB 2.0 (not to mention 1.1) is signifigantly slower than the PCI bus so don't expect top notch performance.

 

[woodman19_99]

I bought a 120 GB, 5400 RPM(I know, should have gone for 7200) USB 2.0 Maxtor Hard Drive and I love it. I haven't tried to run defrag programs on it, but I run some games off it and also it stores all my downloads. I think I still have about 80 gigs of space left, but with a new digital camcorder in the works, that space will probably fade fast. I would suggest Maxtor because as you can see I like mine. Also, some of the newer ones have a nifty One Touch Backup button on the front.

 

[woodman19_99]

umm, i may be missing something at this site, but these prices look REALLY good. Maybe you have to assemble it yourself, I don't know.http://www.coolerexpress.com/hd-ma-720u2.html

 

[over_the_hill]

As a matter of fact, I was looking at this page this morning. Looks like a great deal!

-Pete