External Hard Drive

[Dedworth]

Thinking of buying one of these - any tips on good deals/ ones to avoid would be appreciated

[KeithD]

Buy one of the small pockets ones, about 160GB, handy for hiding it away, and great for taking loads of porn round to your mates

[Dedworth]

Buy one of the small pockets ones, about 160GB, handy for hiding it away, and great for taking loads of porn round to your mates

Too small for my collection I'd need at least 1 stratobyte

[les_taxi]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...23559&source=1

[KeithD]

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?q=2tb+external+hard+drive

You need a big one to make up for something smaller?

[bornatbirth]

are you sure its porn or your stash of man utd and fergie photos

[fred]

You need a big one to make up for something smaller?

You poor old bugger.. (not sure what to suggest)

[mickcant]

Hi all,
I do use external hard drives to do part of my back ups, and am wondering why I cant seem to find any with an fire wire connection
as I think they are faster than USB2?
Mick.

[KeithD]

Wait for USB3

[Englishman2010]

You should be able to get a 250Gb for about £60, the usual places like Amazon is where I'd start. They probably all use the same components made in a factory in Taiwan or The Philippines, if you are a brand snob maybe a brand like Iomega or Western Digital, but I'd guess they are all the same really.

[les_taxi]

You should be able to get a 250Gb for about £60, the usual places like Amazon is where I'd start. They probably all use the same components made in a factory in Taiwan or The Philippines, if you are a brand snob maybe a brand like Iomega or Western Digital, but I'd guess they are all the same really.

250gb! thats tiny a 1.5tb is about £85

[les_taxi]

Also if you want a fast transfer rate a sata connection is faster than firewire or usb 2

[aromulus]

Does anyone speak english on this forum.... ?????

[walesrob]

Ebuyer have a new 2TB drive from Fujitsu http://www.ebuyer.com/product/222089 Elsa bought me a 300gb Western Digital External Drive for Xmas, powered by USB and so compact, probably the size of a pocket diary.

[Dedworth]

Thanks for the advice chaps plenty to be going on with

[nigel]

I may do well to remind everyone that I had a hard drive fail on me not so long ago and I lost the (unimportant) stuff that was on it of course, it still shows those things aren't guranteed to work though...I had a usb memory stick fail on me once too!

[joebloggs]

nigel your using the words 'failure' too much
you'll be attracting it soon

[somebody]

Hi all,
I do use external hard drives to do part of my back ups, and am wondering why I cant seem to find any with an fire wire connection
as I think they are faster than USB2?
Mick.

USB 2 and Firewire do differ although said to be the same spec, due to the way setup. Plenty of Firewire hdd external devices on line.

The best method is often to get a caddy and buy the HDD or HDD's seperately I have found. As the one part that will fail is the HDD while the rest will often be fine though several HDD's lifetime