Portable Hard Drive

gremlin666_2

Im looking for a portable hard drive. Anyone seen any good deals? It doesn't have to be massive in storage 80Gig would be more than enough for my needs :beer:

esuhl

From experience, I can only recommend you avoid anything not made by a well-known HDD manufacturer. I bought a "Cooler Polar HDD Caddy" with an aluminium case and a big fan to keep the disk cool.

On formatting the disk for the first time, errors started occuring. I opened the case to check the connections and BURNT myself on the drive. To make matters worse, I then lacerated my hand on the unfinished "aluminium" (I have a funny feeling it was a different metal). The disk drive had to be thrown away.

So avoid eBay and dodgy computer shops, and get a decent Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital... or some other decent brand.

Amazon hava a 60GB one for ~£39:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maxtor-R14E060-Touch-External-5400rpm/dp/B000U4XZ5I/ref=sr_1_22/203-1262564-6331118?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1186571551&sr=1-22

or a 250GB one for ~£47:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-250GB-External/dp/B000MES2UE/ref=sr_1_30/203-1262564-6331118?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1186571598&sr=1-30

Hope this helps...