External Hard Drives

[Scutch]

As my laptop is only 100GB capacity, I am looking into getting an external hard drive. Doesnt have to be sleek or thin as I wont be carting it around with me everywhere. I'll just be using it at home.

I've been looking on Ebay, and found something like this...

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Is this something which is ideal, or are there other, better alternatives from other places?

Thanks

 

[S22 JGS]

get a Western Digital My Book World Edition

you stick it on your network and can access anywhere u can login!

 

[Scutch]

Any links? Or do I have to log on to Ebay again

EDIT : I checked it out. I forgot to add, I aint paying over £200 either! lol

£70 tops, although that looked very good.

 

[daviebroon]

ive got a 300GB maxtor drive that is external... and it is very unreliable. Random information i know, but it has massive connectivity problems with the majority of computers. My gf has got a seagate external... and it is always crashing.

Never heard of Apollo but im not a computer geek. That seems expensive though

 

[Scutch]

Hmm, well it needs to be compatible with a laptop, and not screw up! lol.

 

[b3nje]

i had a maxtor 300 gb one and it was the dogs danglies
cost me £70 aswell off here!

 

[Scutch]

£70 seems about right for a 300GB one then.

That one in the link is 400GB and £70. But I've never heard of Apollo either :S

 

[Dave_W]

Buy an Icy Box and just get whatever size HDD you want!

 

[daviebroon]

can't find any Apollo HDD's anywhere... no sales... no reviews... nothing.

 

[Scutch]

lol. There's loads on Ebay... :S

 

[b3nje]

mine was an icey box with a 300gb inside

 

[Scutch]

Just put away a Freecom 400GB external harddrive. Pretty good price too

 

[Gumby]

Have a gander here

 

[TeZ]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000EXZB0M/?tag=cliospnet01-21

theres the one i use at home very good imo.. or:

i have 2 of these at work

hehe

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10784

 

[JuanBoy]

This ain't bad value ... http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/118392

http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/B000...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=139042391&pf_rd_i=468294

 

[oska]

Didn't you buy an external caddy a while back? That's what I did anyway, so you can have smaller size HD's of say 160GB and less chance of losing everything you have on one large one. They swap over quickly when you need to.

 

[Scutch]

Didn't you buy an external caddy a while back? That's what I did anyway, so you can have smaller size HD's of say 160GB and less chance of losing everything you have on one large one. They swap over quickly when you need to.

I did yeah, that was to transfer info off my old laptop harddrive (which went tits up) onto my new laptop.
My mate at work has a 250gb external HD, and it seems spot on. Now I'm on the newsgroups and Giganews I need more storage, so 400gb should do the job and keep me content for a few months!
I did a search on here for Freecom and got some good results and reviews.

 

[oska]

Happy p**n hunting!

 

[Scutch]

lol, dont need newsgroups for that. Rapidshare and barfland is my friend

 

[JoelDee]

I got mine from PC world its a freecom one and cost me 80 quid for 400b it was on offer should have been 135.99

 

[Scutch]

Yeah this was is £75

 

[Munson]

I've just added the Freecom 500GB to my collection. Cost was £100 delivered from ebuyer

I've had the 400GB version for a long time and I've had no issues. Current storage = 1.7TB

 

[ollie_gozzett]

Just put away a Freecom 400GB external harddrive. Pretty good price too

i just bought one of those! good choice!

 

[Scutch]

I've just added the Freecom 500GB to my collection. Cost was £100 delivered from ebuyer

I've had the 400GB version for a long time and I've had no issues. Current storage = 1.7TB

f*ck me!!

 

[Munson]

I've just added the Freecom 500GB to my collection. Cost was £100 delivered from ebuyer

I've had the 400GB version for a long time and I've had no issues. Current storage = 1.7TB

f*ck me!!

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