I use the kind of internal drives that are used in workstation desk tops, except that I use them externally!
My recommendation as to the kind of drives are:
- Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001
- You can get them in 1, 2 or 3 terabytes sizes
- Or
- Western Digital WD Black, Red or Green and they
- also comes in 1, 2 or 3 terabyte sizes
You’ll need some kind of an enclosure or case for the hard drive:
- I use a Rosewill RX-DU300 2.5" & 3.5" USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Bay
- Or you can get a
- Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U
But, there is a wide variety of enclosures available. I like the docking variety as there is no assembly required and it is easy to swap drives! They connect via USB, Get one that uses USB 3.0
Just make sure the enclosure can hold a 3.5 inch esata drive and can handle the terabyte capacity of the drive … most enclosures can handle up to 2 terabytes…
Here is a bunch of enclosures listed as available at newegg.com
http://www.newegg.com/External-Enclosures/SubCategory/ID-92
The next step up is to get and use a “RAID”
- RAID
- (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), a system of multiple hard drives for sharing or replicating data
Search for these on Google or the search engine of your choice…Black Friday is coming… prices should drop in the next few weeks…
Enjoy!!!