External Hard Drive

arumiat

Hi all

I was wondering if any of you could help me. Im looking for an external hard drive of decent spec ~160GB+ with a budget. Anyone know of any decent finds?

Cheers

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Slapps

u could buy this hard drive from ebuyer http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/89511/rb/18775638283 ad then serach ebay 4 a external caddy 2 put it in, i found a caddy 4 about £19 includin p&p on there wos in all not a bad price but i must admitt nibs found a great deal

Slapps

fairytooth

Why not save some money?

You can make up your own if you have an old hard drive. Buy an enclosure for around £15 and you are away!

tunesurfer

Also I saw a usb to ide convertor the other day in maplin - just plug into the back of a hard drive and then into your usb - no casing though just a cable which supplies the power to the hard drive as well as transfering the data. I thought about concealing the hard drive in something cheap and inocuose on your desk and no one would be any wiser.

Hotblack_Desiato_2

tunesurfer wrote:

Also I saw a usb to ide convertor the other day in maplin - just plug into the back of a hard drive and then into your usb - no casing though just a cable which supplies the power to the hard drive as well as transfering the data. I thought about concealing the hard drive in something cheap and inocuose on your desk and no one would be any wiser.

The Maplin IDE/USB conveter is fantastic. I have a couple. I mainly use them for 2 things:

1. A friends PC refuses to boot. Well I pop the HD out and can save all their data without opening up my case

2. I have an IDE DVD writer which I can switch between PCs as required to back them up. This is because 1 PC has all the photos, and another has a Freeview card, so I can turn TV shows into DVDs

Coolio!

HB

fairytooth

Hotblack_Desiato wrote:

The Maplin IDE/USB conveter is fantastic. I have a couple. I mainly use them for 2 things:

1. A friends PC refuses to boot. Well I pop the HD out and can save all their data without opening up my case

2. I have an IDE DVD writer which I can switch between PCs as required to back them up. This is because 1 PC has all the photos, and another has a Freeview card, so I can turn TV shows into DVDs

Coolio!

HB

Hi Des, don't know if you can help me here but I bought on of the usb/ide converters but apparently it won't work without a separate power source - is that correct?

Cheers