You guys know world's more about technology than I. Which would you choose if you were faced with one or the other? If neither tell me what you think is good. My two preferences are obvious.

1- Cheap
2- 2 tb's of memory

These are the two I was torn between.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Seagate-GoFlex-Desk-2TB-USB-3.0-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive-Black/19416580

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hard-Drive-Enclosures/15215026

NOTE: IM not going to be bringing this thing with me everywhere I go or anything. It will just sit next to my pc and store information in my pet free, smoke free home.

you would be fine with either one

i was going to see if newegg was cheaper but the prices seem to be the same... if newegg doesn't charge you sales tax do that and flip a coin on which to buy... if they do then just go to your nearest WM and get whichever they have in stock

Honestly, with the prices as they are now, I'd not even get one unless you absolutely had to. The prices are still inflated after the flood last fall (factories were flooded, tons of damage, short supply).

I don't like Seagate at all anymore, and I've heard bad things about Western Digital's external enclosures (they use encryption on them which means if the controller fails, you can't recover the data). Neither one is a great choice. Normally I'd recommend getting an external enclosure and buying your own drive, but as I said before, prices are so inflated that this isn't realistic.

Yeah... They're getting a little better, but they're still pretty bad. I had a 1.5 TB drive in a RAID 5 array die back when they were pretty much at their worst, and even finding a drive in stock was hard. Had to pay out the ass to replace it.