external hard drive

crystal9

OneADay wrote: »

Link?

500gig you mean I think - should be able to store anything you like it on it if its just a hard drive. 500gig SSD drive or normal drive? Smaller SSD cost less - so it depends on how much storage you need roughly.

sorry the link is very small its the number 1 but here it is again

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-PX1626E-1HE0-500GB-External-Silver/dp/B00426CYGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352809451&sr=8-2

gman955

have the prices started to come down yet? Since that flood in Thailand prices were astronomical a few months ago

OneADay

crystal9 wrote: »

sorry the link is very small its the number 1 but here it is again

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-PX1626E-1HE0-500GB-External-Silver/dp/B00426CYGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352809451&sr=8-2

That is a standard hard drive - not SSD. If you are going to keep it one place (not move it too much), it should be ok for your needs. Personally I would prefer Western Digital or at least want to know what make the hard drive is inside that Toshiba branded casing.

gman955 wrote: »

have the prices started to come down yet? Since that flood in Thailand prices were astronomical a few months ago

SSD prices seem to be sticking too high - did come down a bit but not enough to waste £100+ for 128gig :eek:. Amazon has one 120gig drive for £75. Think I will wait till it gets down to £20 :-)

forgotmyname

Just remember hard drives fail...

I bought an extradrive.. Transferred all my photo's and familiy video's to it.

Then it died.. It was only a few weeks old.. I had to do a full data recovery on the PC to get back the files i deleted.

All family photo's are now mirrored onto 2 drives.

closed

crystal9 wrote: »

thanks, i was wondering if i would have room to do a full back up on this.

if you have less than 500Gb of used space, yes.

You could probably fit a few full backups on (using the disk image option of macrium)

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

write the photos to dvd too, and leave them on the c: drive, then you have 3 or more copies, and an easy way to reinstall everything onto the laptop

crystal9

OneADay wrote: »

That is a standard hard drive - not SSD. If you are going to keep it one place (not move it too much), it should be ok for your needs. Personally I would prefer Western Digital or at least want to know what make the hard drive is inside that Toshiba branded casing.



oh sorry i now nothing about these so didn't realize there were SSD ones i assume these can be carried around a lot then? mine will kept in the cupboard most of the time only taken out to add bits onto it