external storage

About a year ago, I spent a lot of $$ with a service to recover data from a dead-ish external USB drive. I generally buy Seagate or WD and want to retire them after 2 years or so. Too short? Too long? I’m considering rolling my own, so this is to solicit recommendations for bare drives...

Hey all, I am in desparate need of help. I just purchased an external storage device (the Photon 2.5-80GB by acomdata). I can't remember exactly what I was doing at the time but all of a sudden, I had umpteen amount of icons of my external on my desktop. when i went to select them all and drag...

Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with Western Digital 250GB storage drives? I need some extra storage, but it doesn't come cheap and I've already been stung with compatibility issues on a camcorder so would appreciate any positive feedback on 250GB storage devices. I'm not planning to...