External Hard drive?
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- Benja82
I want to spend £50 any good suggestions?
- AngryMob0
No, but I do know of a good external drive for £51.50.
- bulletfactory0
you're not wanting something reliable or with large capacity I guess. Or maybe I'm just thinking $100 isn't going to get you something with much capacity.
- Why pay Apple markup? I got a Seagate 1 TB external for $119.ETM
- shitehawke0
Go with a reliable make, seagate or western digital are what most people on here would suggest, I suspect.
Then pick whatever size you can afford, but 50 is not a lot.
Go to pixmania.com or dabs.co.Uk for a decent price as these wi both be cheaper than the highstreet.- < what he saidflashbender
- $50 on a WD is $50 down the drain.monospaced
- Do not get WDtheredmasque
- flashbender0
you might get a decent 160 or a not great 320 for that
I would recommend a Seagate Freeagent Go
you can get a 320 for £65, or a 500 for £80
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb…
or a WD Passport 500GB for £75
- monospaced0
Every Western Digital HD that I've owned has failed on me. No matter what anyone says, I would never purchase another one from that shitty company. The repair shop that helped me retrieve my data each time said that Western Digitals are hands down the worst HDs on the market and anyone using them is taking a gamble with their data. They won't even sell them.
- ironically the only drives i've ever used and have never died on me. now i live in a dustier environment thoughversion3
- I hear the same thing about Lacie. I'm a WD, Seagate, and Other World Computing.juhls
- ....user.juhls
- my WD just died a craptapular death with no warning after a year of use.theredmasque
- Hmmmm. WD is all I own. Have 3 1TB MyBookWorld NAS drives. But, I also backup online.fyoucher1
- ghandolf0
Be aware that the issue with the above Seagate FreeAgentGo above, is I purchased it based on it's 5 year warranty. I bought two of them, one failed in 3 months - sent it back, under warranty... they sent me a 'refurbished' one, that comes with a 90 Day warranty now. I love the drive, but am a little disappointed by the return policy and shortening of the warranty from 5 years to 90 days, because it failed.
- *stares suspiciously at hard drives, can no longer concentrate on work. shuts off everything...ItTango
- Sorry... just back it up, is all I'm sayin'... that's why I bought 2 of them.ghandolf
- Are you following up on the warranty issue? They sold you 5 years!ribit
- That IS the policy. You have to get a return authorization to send it back. Enter your serial number online, etc.ghandolf
- It's stated on the website before you return it that warranty is 'adjusted' on the replacement.ghandolf
- i dont think thats legalribit
- acescence0
99% of all drives are made by just 5 manufacturers- wd, seagate, toshiba, samsung and hitachi. almost everyone else puts those drives in their own enclosures and resells them. wd still actually has the highest mean time between failure rates of any of them, but that's not the complete picture. every drive will eventually fail though, keep that in mind when you're formulating a backup plan.
- raf0
Buy a good enclosure and a server grade drive.
- ItTango0
This looks good... especially after ghandolf's post.
from CNET:
THE GOOD: Triple-layered chassis protection; cheap; quick transfer speeds; convenient one-touch backup; two-year warranty.THE BAD: No FireWire port.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The Transcend StoreJet 25 Mobile stomps the competition and lives to fight another day, thanks to its rugged military-grade exterior. It also delivers chart topping transfer speeds and offers the cheapest cost per gigabyte on the market today. We fully recommend this tough little drive.
- xcarlx0
go with la cie, i hear they are great.
http://www.qbn.com/topics/590258…- lacie only makes enclosures, what you'll get inside is a crapshootacescence
- ghandolf0
I used a client's drive last month, which was an enclosure that you put your drive into - he had a 500gb drive in one of these enclosures. Eagle ET-CS2PSU2-BK 2.5" Black USB 2.0 External Enclosure with built-in USB cable. I liked it, if you find a separate drive you'd rather have in it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pr…
- vaxorcist0
I have had bad problems with laCie twice
I've never had problems with WD or Seagate, even though they were cheaper.... You might also want to make sure your new drive uses the same sort of USB cable as any other drives you have so it's easier to unhook and re-plug your drives when you have a bunch of them.... nothing like trying to find a client file on a hard drive when you can't find that oddball strange USB cable
- adev0
I have two Western Digital My Life 1 TB each drives. no problems yet (one backs up the other though just in case) They are roughly $120 each.
Also I have a 250gb seagate free agent go(portable), it's still going after a year of abuse. I also have a Seagate Free Agent 320GB drive. All still working. The super cheap ones I've bought (some off brand) they've all died. Not sure if its the enclosure or the drives.
- all mine (except the portfolio one) I use firewire with.adev
- doesnotexist0
never had any luck with seagates.
lacie is great.
- once again, lacie only makes the enclosure, you might have a seagate drive inside!acescence
- except every seagate I've bought has crashed and every lacie I've bought works like a champ.doesnotexist
- thismanslife0
A tiny bit over budget, but hey, it's 2.5in (so I assume doesn't require its own power supply) and comes with a mediocre movie onboard!
- Samsung 500GB 2.5" Drive, Red, Terminator Salvation Pre-Loadedthismanslife
- not available for saledoesnotexist
- See, it was popular!thismanslife
- Ruffian0
Carve everything in stone.