The Best Hard Drives...

[milkmandan]

if you need to buy an external drive, just buy an internal hard drive, and buy your own enclosure, it is a cheaper solution.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817182142
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817182162

both are good enclosures and each have a fan.

[Castor Troy]

Seagate >>>>>>>>>>> all

Avoid Hitachi like the plague.

[Kariudo]

Internal drives should be able to handle moving without much trouble. My desktop travels ~350 miles twice a year, a little more depending on how many LANs I go to. No drive failure yet (and driving through Wisconsin on I-90/94 isn't exactly a smooth ride)

As far as externals go, WD passports are nice (and don't require an external power supply, completely powered from USB). Easy to get fingerprints all over, but nice...but they only spin at 5400rpm, so a great editing drive it is not.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136300

If you really need to edit using an external get a normal 7200 rpm internal drive and an external enclosure as suggested above, though I'd look for one that uses firewire (ie, 1394) if your computer has a firewire port (or eSATA if it has an eSATA port)

[Ari-chan]

Thanks everyone, I think that is more up my alley since it regards more of my concerns (and is cheaper).

[the Black Monarch]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822101110

Or, if you prefer to stay within the realm of sanity...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136321

[milkmandan]

after doing some extensive research on SSD performance, i DO NOT RECOMMEND an SSD at ALL.
at least not yet, and if you do shell out for one, you NEED to buy the higher end ones.

sadly, in the current SSD market, about 60% of all the SSDs out there are UTTER crap. I don't have time to explain but this 20 page article will explain in GREAT detail, down to the transitior and controller details of an ssd.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

- IN short, SSDs are GREAT at READING data and sequential writing. but thats all, if you wanna know more, check the link.
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i would give SSDs some more time to mature and get better R&D.
right now, only the Intel x25-e or OCZ vertex are 'kinda' worth it.
there are too many fundamental problems with SSDs that are not yet figured out.
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If you anyone here has an SSD, look into ssd performance degradation and random write speeds.

[milkmandan]

ofc there was some exceptions.
Intel X25-e
and OCZ Vertex
are 'okay' and don't suffer from terribad degradation or random write speeds, but still not perfect tech.

[Ari-chan]

Wow... After reading all that about the SSDs I'm glad I just went with buying an Internal harddrive with a external case.