PC World external hard drive

chestersteve

Hi , I'm after some advice on an external hard drive and wondered whether this was a good drive and a good price ?
Iomega 250GB Select Portable Hard Drive £39.99 (sorry can't post links)
thanks for your help

OneADay

Depends on the manufacturer of the hard disk inside it.
I would suggest spending tenner more and get the 500gig Seagate external drive from dixons (and probably at pc world too) for £49.95. Mind this is the bigger 3.5 inch version.

Millionaire

OneADay wrote: »

Depends on the manufacturer of the hard disk inside it.
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Doesn't Iomega make their own harddrives?

OneADay

Millionaire wrote: »

Doesn't Iomega make their own harddrives?

Don't know but all I have seen of their products in relation to storage has been external drives. What they stick inside could be their own brand (if it is then I have not seen internal Iomega hard drives anywhere - might be proven wrong).

Seagate is my own preference although have used Maxtor as well but think Seagate own Maxtor now

John_Gray

Millionaire wrote: »

Doesn't Iomega make their own harddrives?

Not as far as I know - if they do, they don't seem to make them for anyone else.

cmatt360

OneADay wrote: »

Don't know but all I have seen of their products in relation to storage has been external drives. What they stick inside could be their own brand (if it is then I have not seen internal Iomega hard drives anywhere - might be proven wrong).

Seagate is my own preference although have used Maxtor as well but think Seagate own Maxtor now

i have to secure wipe hard disks at work - and lacie/iomega/freecom brands DO NOT have their own branded hard disks

OneADay

cmatt360 wrote: »

i have to secure wipe hard disks at work - and lacie/iomega/freecom brands DO NOT have their own branded hard disks

I didnt think so - what do they use most for internal drives then - out of interest?

cmatt360

OneADay wrote: »

I didnt think so - what do they use most for internal drives then - out of interest?

normally what ever is the cheapest for them to produce

i have seen maxtor, western digital, seagate, hitachi, samsung and fujitsu!

OneADay

Awful - should have a law to tell people whats in these external drives I think - humbug.

cmatt360

OneADay wrote: »

Awful - should have a law to tell people whats in these external drives I think - humbug.

i would rather have a hdd known brand inside then an own make especially with the fault rate of lacies!

OneADay

cmatt360 wrote: »

i would rather have a hdd known brand inside then an own make especially with the fault rate of lacies!

Same here - decided to be cheap last year and got a refurbished packard bell external from ebay (idiot I am) - blasted thing had problems from start, noisy and racketting. Soon realised where the bad sector was after a few months.

This month its kupt - its a maxtor inside. :mad:

On the look out for cheap internal Seagate drive (seeing as my pc already has seagate and is pretty quiet) - might get two stick one into the external enclosure and one into my pc.