Cheapest 250GB+ external hard drive?

Lazee_Wolf

I see a few recommendations for the 500GB Western Digital MyBook. I bought one of these a year ago and one day it told me I had to reformat it and there was no data on it.

I lost my neices first birthday photos, family videos, music and other files!!

I may have been unlucky but I never experienced any problems with my other Samsung, iOmega and AMT external HDDs.

imho

Lazee Wolf .I just read the reviews on it and it seems to have lot of problems.Dont need problems like that on a Hard Drive .Everyone buys them to make sure their work is safe .

sjrinteriors

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/External/500Gb+Lacie+Hard+Designed+by+Porsche+USB+2.0?productId=28948

try this company... always excellent service
:beer:

sjrinteriors

or

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/External/Freecom+Hard+Drive+Classic+3.5%22+250GB+USB2+?productId=28122

the 250GB version...

Forget PC World, that company is a joke.. Rip-off prices, extremely poor service and why bother with a company that has more PC's returned in a month than some do in a year..

Millionaire

Lazee_Wolf wrote: »

I see a few recommendations for the 500GB Western Digital MyBook. I bought one of these a year ago and one day it told me I had to reformat it and there was no data on it.

I lost my neices first birthday photos, family videos, music and other files!!

I may have been unlucky but I never experienced any problems with my other Samsung, iOmega and AMT external HDDs.

The whole point of a external harddrive apart form additional storage is to "Backup" your data.

Meaning having more than 1 copy of your important irreplaceable files.

People tend to forget this important factor.

Any hard drive can fail from any company.

You can only blame yourself when you lose those files.

cookie_monster

Also looking at buying a new hard drive, so much too choose from.

sjrinteriors

Thats an understanding response Millionaire.. I think we can dispense with the attitude.. This forum is to help and assist people not come out with unhelpful comments

saintdan

sjrinteriors wrote: »

Forget PC World, that company is a joke.. Rip-off prices, extremely poor service and why bother with a company that has more PC's returned in a month than some do in a year..

I wouldnt buy a PC from them but I haven't had any problems with the 3 external hard drives I purchased from them & they were one of the cheapest I could find at the time as I reserved online & collected from instore - saving on p&p.

ormus

the last line may have been a bit harsh but the rest of the comments are perfectly legit.
you simply must have more than one back up for your important data.
any hdd can fail although western digital is one of the better makes. very rare for a WD to fail in my experience.
make a cd/dvd backup today!

ps. there are 2 types of puter user.
the ones who have had a hdd failure, and the ones that will have a hdd failure.

Millionaire

sjrinteriors wrote: »

Thats an understanding response Millionaire.. I think we can dispense with the attitude.. This forum is to help and assist people not come out with unhelpful comments

I dont find my comments unhelpful.

I have advised that you should actually "backup" your data because any hard drive can fail from any company.

My points are 100% true. Go to any support forum for any harddrive manufacturer and you will see posts of harddrive failures.

If you don't actual backup then then you have only yourself to blame as a percentage of hardrives from any manufacturer will fail.

With this wise wisdom it will save the OP losing his valuble data, incase of a hard-drive failure.

By the way OP, Ive owned 2 WD My Book Pro's 1 WD My Book Studio and 1 Maxtor and 1 Seagate drives in the past and all worked flawlessly.