external hard drives

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my brother needs 2 external hard drives for his final year of uni both 300gb each, what's the better choice:

1. Buy hard drives of choice and enclosure seperately
2. Buy 2 external hard drives

and what is the best external drive/enclosure and hhd to go for?
 
I think this is an issue of price really. When I was looking a while back method 1 was cheapest but since then the external drives have dropped in price by quite a bit.

Any particular reason why he wants 2 external drives of same capacity?

Also what connectivity does it need? USB2.0? Firewire? Ethernet? eSATA?
 
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well that's what his uni teacher told them all to get, i think one drive is just going to be an exact copy of the other...a backup drive. it has to plug into laptop so i assume usb is the only option
 
lol does he work for hard disc company? If it's for uni a 2GB flash drive will be more than plenty, and also make a couple of copies onto DVD-RW. Why do students need 300GB of storage?
 
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lol does he work for hard disc company? If it's for uni a 2GB flash drive will be more than plenty, and also make a couple of copies onto DVD-RW. Why do students need 300GB of storage?
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Depends on the course entirely. If it's anything to do with video editing then it will need more than a 2GB Flash drive!
 
They tend to do the same thing with books. Tell you to buy a £50 book then only use a single chapter out of it.

Unless he knows for sure he'll need to store that much data I'd have to go with St0rmer66's recommendation. Even if it turns out he needs more space later on, the flash drive will still come in handy I'm sure. They're pretty essential things these days at uni.

Also does he really want to lug around 2 external HDDs with his laptop when you can put a flash drive on your keyring and maybe even play mp3's.
 
he does animation, he has thousands of drawings, photoshopped images, videos, after effects, sound files and effects etc.

i doubt very much all these videos will fit on a pen drive
 
Ok well the choice then falls back to price again for whether he should go for method 1 or 2.

If he really wants the 2nd drive for backup then I'd recommend getting a RAID 1 enclosure. Something like Thecus N2050 should do nicely.
 
i honestly don't know the situation well enough or for why he needs 2 drives, i'll talk to him more about it tomorrow.
 
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