External Hard drive help needed.300GB or more

[LegoHead]

I have so far found this 300GB firewire usb2.0

plus maplin are selling 320GB one for £150

Thanks.

 

[TheCake]

whats the question?

 

[LegoHead]

dont know.lol

I am looking for a HD to back up my laptop, I need minimum of 60GB for all my files.

Plus it needs to be USB 2.0 or firewire whatever is faster

 

[unofficialPete]

I bought this..200GB EHDD, all good reviews on there and works fine..

250GB verison

 

[LegoHead]

250GB for £110 seems a good deal

 

[unofficialPete]

at the end of the day its just a hard drive with a usb connection and evesham stick it in a pretty box with pretty lights lol

Had no issues with mine, just plug and play, takes about 10-15mins to back up about 8 or so GB's

 

[TheCake]

lol no probs mate. Theres a few different ones around, with 250-300GB costing you around £100-£130

 

[FiDoDiDo]

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3TVM&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=freecom+320gb&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

I got the one on the link above recently and it's done the trick great.

 

[RB_172]

Might aswell buy a usb2/firewire case for £20 from www.svp.co.uk or somewhere and stick any old IDE drive in it.

 

[spirez]

£130 for 320gb, can't go wrong!

 

[David]

get a hard drive enclosure for like £20 and put whatever drive u want in it! thats what ive done and it works awesome.

EDIT: actually ready above post same as mine, sorry didn't read it!

 

[White16valver]

*stupid non-techie-person question*

Is a Zip Drive different to a HD then?

 

[LegoHead]

*stupid non-techie-person question*

Is a Zip Drive different to a HD then?

I think zip drives come with smaller disks. plus a zip disk is like a floppy, stick it in the drive and write/read. Havent seen them above 250MB per disk.

Got a USB one from maplin for £150 for 320GB (actually 300GB) but its quick! Only took an hour to back up 45GB, which only needs to be done once then incremental backups.

I am using Norton Ghost 9.0, never used it before but is really easy to use.