External Hard Drive? ! !

Poppycat

I was just gonna post that, you beat me to it

Poppycat

BTW I got the Aldi drive earlier this year with 250gb and card reader builtin, fantastic product and really handy for backups

seth

Poppycat wrote:

BTW I got the Aldi drive earlier this year with 250gb and card reader builtin, fantastic product and really handy for backups

Dabs have some 200Gig maxtor extern USB2 in plastic case, not aluminium but fan less for £72ish + P&P

gromituk

seth wrote:

Dabs have some 200Gig maxtor extern USB2 in plastic case, not aluminium but fan less for £72ish + P&P

That's a good find. Seem to be the same rotational speed and cache, so I guess similar performance. Not fanless though, according to the one review. £86 including postage (I'm sure it was £72 the first time I looked but now it's £80!): that's 43p per GB. The Aldi one just scrapes in ahead at 40p per GB, but then you have to fight for one in the shop!

Aldi also have a graphics tablet and USB video capture device that look fairly interesting.

Number_6_3

Just picked up one of these Buffalo 250gb
250gb for £85 inc del. 2 year warranty on it, and Western digital drive inside. No problems thus far.

Also got a Maxtor 250gb and a lacie 250gb (about £105) (Think it uses a maxtor or western digital drive inside, the latest ones have seagate)

Of all of them I find the maxtor most convenient with dual firewire and usb2.

All are pretty fast, and I've had no problems or failures so far...

HTH

R

gromituk

Hey that's excellent. Glad I posted about the Aldi drive, as it's brought in some interesting alternatives. It looks like Aldi is not hitting the spot at all - I usually assume that specials at Aldi/Lidl/Netto are unbeatable. Nice to have a fanless design. The only thing it doesn't state anywhere is the size of the cache - but do all 250G drives have 8MB caches now?

Number_6_3

Depends on the manufacturer...the latest drives have 16mb.

R