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Recommendations for new external hard drive, please!
InaPickle
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Hi guys,
I officially have the worst luck with technology, ever. After catching my foot in the cable between my laptop and my seagate external hard rive, which resulted in the latter hitting the ground and breaking, I was then using a sata drive and old hard drive to do the same back up I had been trying to do, only to catch one of the linking cables with my foot again, crashing and breaking that. :doh:
Yes, I feel like a fool, yes, I really need a replacement and no, it seems that I can't remove my foot and beat myself to death with it. Instead, do any of you nice techie people have any recommendations for good external hard drives of the more durable variety? (I know that if you drop it while it's working only so much can be done, but still....). I was looking at some of the lying-down ones as opposed to the standy-up ones, which are the ones I currently have, that fall over easily, and need burying.
As you can get 1TB for under £100 it would seem daft to go for anything less. £100 would be my limit though, being as I am bedrock broke and then some.
Thanks for your time. :T Sorry for my clumsiness. :doh:
I officially have the worst luck with technology, ever. After catching my foot in the cable between my laptop and my seagate external hard rive, which resulted in the latter hitting the ground and breaking, I was then using a sata drive and old hard drive to do the same back up I had been trying to do, only to catch one of the linking cables with my foot again, crashing and breaking that. :doh:
Yes, I feel like a fool, yes, I really need a replacement and no, it seems that I can't remove my foot and beat myself to death with it. Instead, do any of you nice techie people have any recommendations for good external hard drives of the more durable variety? (I know that if you drop it while it's working only so much can be done, but still....). I was looking at some of the lying-down ones as opposed to the standy-up ones, which are the ones I currently have, that fall over easily, and need burying.
As you can get 1TB for under £100 it would seem daft to go for anything less. £100 would be my limit though, being as I am bedrock broke and then some.
Thanks for your time. :T Sorry for my clumsiness. :doh:
Please call me 'Pickle'
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Try Comet at their website
They have a 1.5TB Iomega Prestige external drive for around £90 with free delivery
And use the code 10HD at the checkout for 10% off0 -
Wow, that's great - thanks lots and lots!
I will investigate straight away.
(I take it that Iomega are good?)
Thanks again.
Pickle
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I bought a 500gb one from Argos (about £50) over a year ago and it has been excellent but I guess that's because I can't catch my foot in the cables !!!!!Thanks to MSE I cleared £37k of debt in five years and I was lucky enough to meet Martin to thank him personally.0
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Anything of interest here:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2275061&highlight=iomega0 -
(I take it that Iomega are good?)
I like them
See my posts/threads above. 0 -
Cheers, busenbust - I really appreciate the advice. :beer: I had seen reviews of them online, but given my current bad luck with hard drives, I'm just paranoid!
I've seen an Iomega aluminuim-covered external. Do you think it would realistically offer me any extra protection worth the extra price, or do you think it would be just a pretty extra?
Thanks again! :TPlease call me 'Pickle'
No More Buying Books: ???
No More Buying DVDs: ???
NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
Proud to be dealing with her debts 1198~
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The eGo Portables have had some excellent reviews; I'm thinking of purchasing one myself; you can still choose any color and buy the rubber band protective strap separately I think.Cheers, busenbust - I really appreciate the advice. :beer: I had seen reviews of them online, but given my current bad luck with hard drives, I'm just paranoid!
I've seen an Iomega aluminuim-covered external. Do you think it would realistically offer me any extra protection worth the extra price, or do you think it would be just a pretty extra?
Thanks again! :T
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With your luck, how about one of these?
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I got a 1.5TB Iomega Prestige from John Lewis - was about £65 a month or two back - it has been excellent - check out the reviews on amazon.com
John Lewis gives a free 2 year warranty0 -
One of my friends has a Western Digital Mybook 500gb which he never stops raving about how good it is.
PC world have these on their site, 1TB is £70.
Me personally though, I don't know what I could possibly store on such a crazy amount of space!0
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