best cheapish large external hard drive

Doglover88

looking for a largeish (200 Gb+) external hard drive to use with my laptop any recommendations? One advertised on TV for £80 thats 250Gb and I'm sure on hotukdeals there was a 300 Gb for £100ish?
any to avoid or look out for?

s-j-cooper_2

I have just bought a 250gb Seagate for £76 from Dabs, including delivery. I ordered Sunday and it arrived today.

Here is the link: Seagate 250gb

I have just noticed that it now says stock due in 3-4 days, so it might well take longer to get it.

There are a few threads about external hard drives on the techie board, try doing a search for them - Pc world have some Toshiba drives and pretty decent prices if you want to buy from a shop. Links here:

Toshiba 250gb - £79.99

Toshiba 320gb - 109.99

wadewade

I notice there are two different Seagate 250gb USB2 versions available. Dabs.com has one with a 8MB cache for £70 and savastore has a 16MB version for £99. Am I likely to notice much difference in occasional home use?

wadewade

Correction to above post:

I see PCWorld refer to it as as a 16mb Buffer. Will I notice any difference between an 8mb and 16mb Buffer?

JulianProcter

Seagate 160GB external harddrive for £69.99 ( I beleive this includes postage).

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=48607&TabID=1&source=1&doy=29m6

Regards,

Jules

JulianProcter

Sorry,

Have now seen that you were referring to a 250gb not 160gb hard drive.

Regards,

Julian

s-j-cooper_2

s-j-cooper wrote:

I have just bought a 250gb Seagate for £76 from Dabs, including delivery. I ordered Sunday and it arrived today.

Here is the link: Seagate 250gb

I have just noticed that it now says stock due in 3-4 days, so it might well take longer to get it.

There are a few threads about external hard drives on the techie board, try doing a search for them - Pc world have some Toshiba drives and pretty decent prices if you want to buy from a shop. Links here:

Toshiba 250gb - £79.99

Toshiba 320gb - 109.99

I have just noticed that it is back in stock at dabs. I would just like to say that it runs very cool and is incredibly quiet.

other

personally i would stay away from western digital drives, especially the essential usb 2 ones.

:mad: :mad:

s-j-cooper_2

Do seagate use western digital?

buster1967

ive got myself a 320GB external USB2 HD from Aldi it cost £120 but it only shows up as 298GB something the way the companies that make the HD's calculate the space.

all the same its a nice HD.