External 500gb hard drives

samhale

£54 delivered.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/500-GB-Western-Digital-My-Book-Essential-QUICK-DELIVERY_W0QQitemZ290276009211QQihZ019QQcategoryZ16178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

interceptor02

£49.98 from Amazon including deliverly

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001EKW0O4

samhale

Actually £50 on eBuyer
http://orders.ebuyer.com/customer/shopping/index.html?action=c2hvd2NhcnQ%3D

With free delivery.

aliEnRIK

samhale wrote: »

£54 delivered.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/500-GB-Western-Digital-My-Book-Essential-QUICK-DELIVERY_W0QQitemZ290276009211QQihZ019QQcategoryZ16178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Im always against refurbished hard drives, its quite possible it would break down fairly quickly.

Kane99uk

Maplin are currently doing a deal on a new 1.5TB external desktop HDD for £129.99, with free delivery. As the thread's OP asked for cheapest per GB, this works out at £43.33 per 500GB.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=226762&C=Newsletter&U=08P12-6_A36JC&T=-11742820

Deal's on until Christmas Eve.

tali

Is there actually any hard proof that the cheapo brands will break down? I'm sure good makes (Western Digital, Hitachi, Seagate etc) are very good but has anyone bought or know of an unreliable HD?
3.5 would be fine for me as portability not an issue.
I am thankful for the advice given , but whilst it can be entertaining can we also keep thread good natured

Ice_2

I've actually been looking at these myself over the past year and well the price is very good at the moment I am going off
www.ebuyer.com
prices...and also I too have noticed that the 2.5" are alot dearer than the 3.5" although they do a nice little Imogen one 1T for just over a hundred quid...alos they do a 500gb one for £50 which isn't bad...
free delivery on oreders over £49
:j nice little stocking fillers:xmastree:

DrBenway

tali wrote: »

Is there actually any hard proof that the cheapo brands will break down? I'm sure good makes (Western Digital, Hitachi, Seagate etc) are very good but has anyone bought or know of an unreliable HD?

Indeed.

Exactly, how many hdd aren't made by WD, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor and Fujitsu anyway?

glyn_s

tali wrote: »

Is there actually any hard proof that the cheapo brands will break down?

I don't know if there is ... but are you willing to take the risk for a few extra quid?

colin13

I got a WD 500GB external hard drive about 6 months ago.. a great addition to my pc,, whiuch has only a 80gb hard drive,,no on off switch it just starts when u boot ur pc,,quiet and so far relaible,, I think I paid about £65 from amazon for it which was a lot cheaper than shop bought