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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
This. Very true. If you don't plan on moving the HD around too much, I'd go with the desktop. Sucks you have to plug it in to AC, but they have full sized desktop HDs in them which generally take a lot longer to wear-out or breakdown than the portable ones (which have latop HDs in them). Also generally more capacity for the $$$.
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Desktop hard drives running on AC tend to be faster (eg. 7200RPM) than the portable hard drives running off USB (eg. 5400 RPM).
I recently purchased a WD Passport portable hard drive and have been pleased with it so far. I was using it to run intermittent backups of my hard drive and the thought of having to plug one or the other (or both) into the wall wasn't something I was interested in.