500 gb external hard drive

belfast_child

saw a 500gig ext hd in pc world for £80. is that good value? i plan to move all my downloaded stuff on to it freeing some gigs on my hd. i have 160 gigs on pc nearly full. will this be suitable and are they hard to install (im a techie bimbo spent the whole weekend installing a router.

thanks

Chippy_Minton

You can usually get better value elsewhere, e.g. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/124035/rb/0 500GB for £70.

Or http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128465/product_info/rb/0 - Western Digital is better known than Iomega.

Easy to install and use - just plug into a spare USB port.

sicker

Is it new or a return ? It is very good value and will self install when connected. It will show in your control panel as a new drive.

robrymond

https://www.svp.co.uk, they have Freecom classic 500GB HDD's for 69 pounds I think.

thebyp

the seek noise on WD drives is higher.

Stubert

robrymond wrote: »

www.svp.co.uk, they have Freecom classic 500GB HDD's for 69 pounds I think.

SVP you have to pay delivery which on amazon etc you don't have too.

Aiadi

and you actually need two of these to backup as they'll definitely eventually fail (only a matter of when) and 500GB of data is quite a big loss when it happens.