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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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I'm not too worried if I have to actually plug it into the wall or not. I'm more concerned over having a way to backup my documents and pictures and other personal things so that when this laptop goes I'm not SOL on a whole bunch of things.
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If you bought an external, to be honest I would just buy a 250GB laptop harddrive ($40 on sale). Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Toshiba, etc. are all decent for reliability and are the only options really available at retail usually. Then I would buy a $10 enclosure to throw it in as the enclosure rarely makes a difference unless you need specific connectors (firewire, esata, external sata, etc.) and all the small notebook external drives don't really have any space for shock protection anyway.
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How hard is this to do? While I'm not a brain dead idiot when it comes to computers, I'm not really type to play around inside of them. I'm more software tinkering then hardware tinkering.
I've been working off of DVD backups for awhile but DVD's do get lost so I was hoping there was a better solution then having dozens of DVD's in a drawer that I would have to add back onto another machine should something happen.