external hard drive

IvanOpinion

C_Ronaldo wrote:

ivan is toshiba good for pc equipment

I have never had a problem with Toshiba drives .. I have one of these 320Gb (bought earlier this year), two Toshiba 160Gb (external) and a Freecom which contains a 2.5 80Gb Toshiba disk drive (external). I know that is not a large sample and generally believe you can be lucky or unlucky with drives ... I have found that WD are the least reliable and have had some flakey Seagate drives but yet others swear by them).

Ivan

C_Ronaldo

is it quiet, oh ill be using it with win2000 and winxp i take it that would work

s-j-cooper_2

IvanOpinion wrote:

I have been recommending external hard drives for a few years now and they just keep getting better and better value for money. If you keep all your data on the external hard disk then it does not matter if and when you buy a new computer .. no need for all this copying, ghosting etc. In general the speed difference between a good USB2 drive and an internal drive is not that much.

PC World currently have a 320Gb USB2 drive for under £100 see here and it is available as collect@store (so you can pick it up on the way home).

Ivan

Would this pcworld drive work with usb 1.1?

Please, just a yes or no from someone!

Thanks!

I also have a router with a spare ethernet space - would it be possible to connect the hard drive up to that, or stright into the ethernet port of my laptop? Or is that just a ridiculous idea that anyone in their right mind would never ask? In which case, I never asked it.

espresso

s-j-cooper wrote:

Would this pcworld drive work with usb 1.1?

Please, just a yes or no from someone!

Thanks!

I also have a router with a spare Ethernet space - would it be possible to connect the hard drive up to that, or stright into the ethernet port of my laptop? Or is that just a ridiculous idea that anyone in their right mind would never ask? In which case, I never asked it.

I'm sure that I clicked Quote and it Thanked you!

Yes you can use it on USB1 see here for more info about actual speeds etc.

You can also attached hard drives to your network, so it wasn't a silly question! see here for an example.

C_Ronaldo

i got one of the HDs from aldi