External Hard Drive

MartialArtMan

I want an external hard drive so that I can store all my documents safely in case I have any probs with my aging computer and to allow easier formating.

I've found this one on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-DriveStation-250Gb-Serial-External/dp/B000FVTQK4/ref=br_lf_m_350613011_2_8_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=electronics&pf_rd_p=199575491&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=350613011&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1TFA4MYZD206XG9HA634

Is it a good buy? Do you know of a better deal?

Thanks for your help. I'm a bit of a techy noob

alanwjones

How's about this one http://www.ebuyer.com/product/138916/show_product_overview

Alan.

Anthony2oo5

Or buy a normal hard drive,

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(37411)Samsung-400GB-PATA-ATA100-7200rpm-8MB-cache.aspx

Then buy a caddy off ebay, around £7 - £8.

Its a little dearer, but you get a lot more storage. Also if the ahrd drive breaks, you have a caddyu cna just replace the hard drive. Not sure iif you can do that on an External.

buglawton

The usb ones that connect with just 1 cable to the computer and need no extra power cable are soooo convenient. A year or two ago they were too pricey so I got the old bulky type with an external power transformer, now admiring my colleague's 160 gig 'pocket' usb drive and recommend if you are buying one now get that usb type.

eg this 250gb one at £67 http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?WD-PE250
(BTW I was in a Novatech store on Saturday getting PC bits - VERY impressed by prices, range & service)

moonrakerz

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6752895/Trail/searchtext%3EEXTERNAL+HARDDRIVES.htm

buglawton

Above Argos link broken? Maybe OP was referring to this 160GB £55 Maxtor one (used the email a friend link seems more reliable)
[FONT=&quot]http://www.argos.co.uk/ProductDisplayTRK019?partNumber=6752895

[/FONT][ which happens to be the drive my colleague has ]

moonrakerz

buglawton wrote: »

Above Argos link broken? Maybe OP was referring to this 160GB £55 Maxtor one (used the email a friend link seems more reliable)
[FONT=&quot]http://www.argos.co.uk/ProductDisplayTRK019?partNumber=6752895[/FONT]

Strange ! The link worked before I posted it, just tried it again and it worked OK.

That is the drive, have one myself. Very good and very compact.

f1charlie

Or this Maxtor 500gb for £60:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/324729

Then download the Maxblast software from the Maxtor website so you can make image backups of your drives.

buglawton

In-store add £10 or delivery add £5
By the time they get to 500GB I think Firewire would be a nice option

f1charlie

Select 'collect at store' and get it at the web price (assuming it's in stock).

skim

Best one I've found is the CNET Lan Disk
http://www.redstore.com/fx/inf_search.php?sch_case=insensitive&sch_boolean=and&sch_terms=lan+disk&search=GO

Top of the list - it features both ethernet & USB & it's also an ftp server too.
You need to add your own H/drive though