Western Digital 320Gb External Hard Drive USB2 £85 Delivered!

Yes - also be careful to look at the spec, as this has an 8mb buffer ... maybe you can help with the following?

I wanted to buy two large hard drives (Drive 1 and Drive 2) so that I could store and make a duplicate of all my important things (including photo’s and movies) – the idea being

* don’t store anything on the actual computer as if it dies, it looses everything (and this has happened twice now, arrrgghhh) – by moving all to Drive 1
* By using drive 1 – if the computer dies you just plug the drive into another computer – easy, simple and no hassle, no data lost
* This also frees up space on the actual computer which improves the performance - important as I plan to store my whole family archive of photo's and video, edit it etc
* use Drive 1 as a general useage for everything and anything (instead of C:\) back up important things to Drive 2 (the content of which will be enormous as I have loads on disk to put on, plus all the photos and things in the "cupboard under the stairs" to scan and tidy up (a bit like tidying the kitchen/spare room but you just can’t see what I’m doing, however this job is probably bigger than either of those!)
* This now means that I have an original on Drive 1 + a copy of important stuff on Drive 2 (in case Drive 1 dies) – simple easy and fairly foolproof for not loosing stuff

I've been doing some research, and I think the best deal is

Western Digital 400GB "My Book" Premium 1C External Hard Drive USB2.0/Firewire

because - Western Digital is a well known and reportedly reliable brand, from reading the reviews there seems to be a lot of unreliability with some of the cheaper makes
because - firewire would provide a more reliable transfer rate without "dropping bytes"
because - the buffer size is 16mb so would provide faster transfer rate for editing video etc

The best deal I have found at the moment (in stock) is £157.82 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/t...&s=electronics

Can anyone provide feedback on this please, or find a better price, or does anyone have an Amazon Code?

Thanks very much
Kind regards
Tracy

akamini wrote:

Get 2 500gb ones and then you can say you have a terabyte of memory :0 £189.99 if you buy in store http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=usb&ModuleNo=97122&doy=search&C=SEO&U=Strat15

Get a few quid off too if you subscribe to Maplins news letter too

Western Digital 400GB 'Essential' version under £65 at...

(I will tell you later when they've despatched mine cos I'm sure it's a mis-price!!)

kopo wrote:

ebuyer.com

And they are not accepting orders of this item at the moment. Looks like they've realised there is a mis-price.

Awwww missed that then ..

I have found a good deal though on eBuyer http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=21538557365&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3NwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z&product_uid=111978

Does anyone have an eBuyer promotion code?

Thanx