Comments on: Win a Toshiba 640GB Portable Hard Drive: Big Giveaway, Tiny Review

By: mikekarr

mikekarr — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:31:38 +0000

At work I have two 1 terrabyte drives, but at home I’ve got nothing!

By: travisehrlich

travisehrlich — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:56:01 +0000

RT @geardiary: there is still time to enter! gear diary's 620gb toshiba hard drive giveaway closes tonight – http://bit.ly/cnX2lo

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:52:04 +0000

there is still time to enter! gear diary's 620gb toshiba hard drive giveaway closes tonight – http://bit.ly/cnX2lo

By: jst4tim

jst4tim — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:54:34 +0000

My largest external backup I have is a $50 16GB Sandisk flash drive that I had to pickup to transfer some of the photos of my triplets to so I have room on my camera to take more. I plan on geting something like this but have been putting it off until I have time to research them.

By: dino700

dino700 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:52:09 +0000

My largest backup solution is an external USB drive that has 300GB capacity. I paid roughly $200 for this a while back. I could sure use something bigger in capacity and sure hope I win the 640GB.

By: palmfox

palmfox — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:39:36 +0000

My largest is a Western Digital 1TB,(notebook size hard drive) paid 179.00 at Best Buy. My Father in Law needs one for his computer at his church as he has NO backup at the moment…

By: Gianpy

Gianpy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:59:30 +0000

I’ve never owned an External hard drive, the biggest sized USB Flash drive I’ve owned is an HP 8 Gb, cost me about 30$

By: nape9393

nape9393 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:54:25 +0000

RT @geardiary: there is still time to enter! gear diary's 620gb toshiba hard drive giveaway closes tonight – http://bit.ly/cnX2lo

By: alaskangraham

alaskangraham — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:34:33 +0000

80g passport for about $120 that was several years ago but still works well after spilling beer on it.

By: ravipkumar

ravipkumar — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:47:56 +0000

320GB WD Portable. Gift from a friend

By: ma

ma — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:14:37 +0000

here goes..fingers crossed..I have a red SimpleTech 320GB and am a wee desparate for a new one as my friends puppy chewed on one side…the SimpleTech is still working…after being cleaned off…..I paid approximately 90USD for it with taxes..about 8 months ago….but think I need to replace it so was surfing for recommendations but it has and still does serve me well..MA

By: AndySocial

AndySocial — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:31:32 +0000

I have no external storage, unless you count stacks of DVD-Rs and flash drives (capacity from 1GB to 8GB). I’m not a good geek, obviously.

By: ocergj

ocergj — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:01:19 +0000

I have about 5 TB of external backup consisting mainly of external USB drives. These drives range from 300GB up to 1TB each. Estimated cost is about $1000+?

By: sacasmo

sacasmo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:57:35 +0000

Currently I don’t own any external hard drive but by internal is a 40gb for a Compaq Presario laptop I bought 5 years ago.

By: crloga1

crloga1 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:29:24 +0000

I have a seagate 500GB portable harddrive. I think that I paid about $100 for this several years ago.

By: mkss55442

mkss55442 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:43 +0000

That’s easy. I bought a Hitachi 1TB external drive from Office Max on Thursday for $79.99 + tax ($89.99 on sale and I had a $10 off $20 or more coupon).

Best deal…I got a WD 1TB Elements external drive on Black Friday from Target for $59.99.

By: mcurtis

mcurtis — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:07:50 +0000

My largest is a 1TB HD in a beautiful ICY DOCK enclosure. $135. Should have been less, but I’m so hopeless when it comes to mail-in rebates.

By: breley

breley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:26:20 +0000

Oops, that 1TB drive ran about $129 from Newegg.com.

By: breley

breley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:06 +0000

I have a WD 1 TB USB external for backing up 3 systems for me and the family, which doesn’t (yet) include my netbook.

By: v1ctr0

v1ctr0 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:45:37 +0000

500gb external drive, I paid about 200-300 dollars for it i think. But those prices are already a year old.

By: timtim

timtim — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:22:44 +0000

I currently use a 70 GB external hard-drive. A monster of a device, it probably will crash any day now and I’m pretty sure I paid around ~ $200 for it.

Thanks Judie

By: ivand44

ivand44 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:47:58 +0000

The largest external drive I have is a Seagate 300 GB USB hard drive that has both FireWire and USB ports. It is not one of these nifty portable drives, however. I bought the drive a few years ago and I think I paid around $175 for it, which was around $50 off the retail price. Anyway, it’s so easy to run out of hard disk space so I could really use this drive, but I’m hardly the only one who has that problem…

And thanks for having this contest, it’s very kind to just give it up to a random person.

By: desz

desz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:48:45 +0000

I currently have a portable external 80GB Fujitsu hard drive. I found it unopened in a box in my brother’s closet and he let me have it for free.

By: mcsouth

mcsouth — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:12:44 +0000

A few years back, I spent $200 for a 250GB external hard drive to use for back-up of all our family computers. At this point, it is full just partially backing up one PC, let alone all of them – blame video for that!

This doesn’t really count, but several years back, I dropped $120 for a 512MB SD card for my PocketPC, so that I could carry additional apps and files, as well as back up my PocketPC. Doesn’t really count here, but still – $120 bucks for 512MB! Same card (if you can find one that small today) is now what – about $3?

By: msi

msi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:03:29 +0000

I have a 1TB NAS WD MyBook World Edition II. I have used it for off loading and backups to my desktop and laptops. however, it has problems with locking out rewrite abilities for folders which keeps them from being available to all my devices. Not a lot of fun. A new portable devvice would be awesome!

By: nosmohtac

nosmohtac — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:53:52 +0000

My largestback upsolution is 120GB. It’s a portable one similar to the one you’re giving away. I think I paid over $100 for 120GB a few years ago.
Thanks for the giveaway.

By: lloydrv

lloydrv — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:40:47 +0000

My largest external drive is a 250GB Western Digital MyBook, bought years ago. I vaguely remember it costing a little bit shy of $200, perhaps $175 (or was it between $100 and $75?).

By: ash9

ash9 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:45:55 +0000

I dont have any external memory, except memory cards and flash drives no bigger then 4GB and not costing more than $20

By: atit_s

atit_s — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:22:06 +0000

Hi I currently Use a WD Passport 320GB Ext HDD and I also archive my important stuff on DVD-R!! I spent about $100 on the WD Passport!

By: geek4life1986

geek4life1986 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:19:33 +0000

Currently, a 500GB 3.5″ Hitachi HDD is the largest capacity drive externally (vs 1TB drives internally), sitting in an enclosure purchased from Newegg. $50 for the drive plus $20 for the case makes it a $70 purchase, a great deal at the time two years ago. It’s completely full, though, so an upgrade is in order.