Hard Drive Dock - Recommend suitable internal 500Gig Drive?
Maximum budget about $80.
I want to add a hard Drive Dock (for easy plug-n-play) Backup of my 'audio files' which is about one album worth (16 songs) roughly about 95.Gig maximum.
The Hard Drive Dock I'm considering is; Thermaltake BlacX N0028USU (USB.2, 480 Mbps Max) $30.00
I like the idea of the Dock, because I don't want to add more clutter inside my PC and add possible heat issues, and I want to make it really easy to swap, plug-n-play without opening up the PC case.
. Can someone recommend a good internal 500Gig hard drive (Primarily for Backup), no more than $50,? one that is suitable for the Hard Drive Dock (Thermaltake BlacX N0028USU)
I'm a solo music artist/composer, once all 16 songs (audio recordings/mastering) is done I want to back that up and move onto Video Editing (6 Videos maximum) on possibly a clean slate using the existing Audio Drive hard drive.
I already have another C: [Programs] Hard Drive where all my programs are installed.
I also want to back up the O/S and settings 'on the same new backup hard drive', will I need to create a partition to do that and if so, how would that be done using the suggested setup?
The reason why I'm thinking of going this route is; (1) Internal drives are cheaper, (2) Internal heat? since I'll be using the H/Drive Dock that should not be an issue, and since heat won't be an issue this might help prolong the life of the hard/drive. (3) Swappable, very easy Plug-n-play setup using the H/Drive Dock.