External HDD's

mercman1969

Hi,

Am in the market for a min or 1 possibly 2 external HDD's
Where is the best place to buy currently and what model to go for?

Regards

Pete

mercman1969

Anybody any input on this subject?

Cheers

jarrod1

i have a few western digital 'my books'.
They are fantastic, very quite, turn on and off with your computer,laptop, they look good too.
500gb is approx £79 (have3)
and the 1TB are approx £169ish (have one)

I would avoid maxtor external hard drives, they are very noisy, you have to turn them on and off manually and i the one i had died after 4 months, when i took it back to PC World i could see a pile of them behind the tech guys counter that had been returned by other customers.

mercman1969

Thanks

Where is best to purchase? any offers on anywhere at the minute?

jarrod1

meant to add,

find out what hard drive you want and then look for it. If you go into the likes of PC World like i did at first, they will recommend anything as they dont seem to have a clue about computers.
I ended up buying my hard drives on amazon and ebay.

jarrod1

just did a google for western digital with the uk tab selected and the first link was to amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Essential-USB2-0-External/dp/B000EXZB0M

500gb my book for £69 + free delivery in time for christmas. bargain

just to compare prices - the same one in PC World is £89