External Hard Drive - Recommendations?

iwilldoitthistime

Hi

I have a large number of photos, videos etc on my laptop, so to free up space am thinking of getting an external hard drive.

Ive found the seagate 250GB freeagent at £49.99.

Is this any good? can anyone recommend an alternative?

thanks!

planemad

Seagate are good the price is good.

You can get a 320gb Western digital external HD for another £10

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/109361

And if you buy before tomorrow you get you can get £10 off with google checkout and the postage is free so you get the extra 70gb for the same price you would have got 250gb.

Google checkout offer: http://www.ebuyer.com/special/1314

weeowen

I recently bought a Seagate Freeagent from Amazon.It is really easy to set up and does exactly what it should.Looks quite good as well.

isofa

The WD (Western Digital) MyBooks come highly recommended from me, different versions have different interfaces, I've a 500Gb Premium which has USB and Firewire, and it's been very reliable and extremely fast over firewire.

I'd also review LaCie drives too.

Stompa

A Seagate would be at the top of my list.

mandm65

iwilldoitthistime wrote: »

Hi

I have a large number of photos, videos etc on my laptop, so to free up space am thinking of getting an external hard drive.

Ive found the seagate 250GB freeagent at £49.99.

Is this any good? can anyone recommend an alternative?

thanks!

A few days ago in PC world I saw WG 250GB for £89.99, so your price at £49.99 sounds like a bargain to me.

iwilldoitthistime

thanks everyone for the comments. As long as its easy to set up, its fine by me!

thanks planemad for the tip about the better offer - shame I wasnt on line in time to get it! thanks anyway!

DKLS

Freecom all the way, avoid LaLacie like the plague very unreliable.

sicker

Try maplin.co.uk and search for hard drives. Get as large a one as you can afford because they can fill up quitwe quickly. I have two, a 250 gb Buffallo and a western digital mybook 300 gb. You just plug them in and go.

John

Money_Maker_Shaker

Does anyone know if the Freeagent ones, or any others for that matter, are Vista compatible? I can't find this info clearly on their website.

Thanks

MMS

free4440273

MyBook.

I can't comment on reliability or durability however as i don't have one. MyBook Pro available from Amazon: should be reviews there also. They also do a nice Remote Access version:)