External Hard drive

[Moz168]

Is this a good deal from PCWorld? Or can I get 500gb for much cheaper? If its only a few quid cheaper, ill just buy from PCworld.
Ill need 2 btw.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...m=null&tm=null&sku=509061&category_oid=-32891

Or I might upgrade the internal HD from the shite 80gb to a 500gb and then get just one external to use as a backup drive. Anyone had any experience of this and did you have any issues?

Its for a 13" macbook on version 10.4.11,2gb ram.

This is what Im looking at getting
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/product_info.php?products_id=498

What do ya'll recommend doing?
Thanks

 

[GeordieClioDriver]

I've been looking at this, I need an external HD to store my photos on (about 15k!! lol)

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6758617/Trail/searchtext%3EEXTERNAL+HARD+DRIVE.htm

Seems like a decent enough one for the money!

Edit: would work with the mac too!

 

[Leeshez]

You can get a 1TB from maplin for £69.99 http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=257315&source=1

 

[Moz168]

I've been looking at this, I need an external HD to store my photos on (about 15k!! lol)

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6758617/Trail/searchtext>EXTERNAL+HARD+DRIVE.htm

Seems like a decent enough one for the money!

Edit: would work with the mac too!

Thanks, that seems good. I need mine for photos too, but for a few more, maybe 100,000 a year, probably more. Ive just always bought external hard drives, 250gb's but I need to sort out a proper way of doing it.

You can get a 1TB from maplin for £69.99 http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=257315&source=1

^That+internal might be a good option.

Can you get 1tb hard drive for a macbook?
Would it be really slow once it had to start searching though tens of thousands of photos?

 

[Deeg]

Is this a good deal from PCWorld? Or can I get 500gb for much cheaper? If its only a few quid cheaper, ill just buy from PCworld.
Ill need 2 btw.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...m=null&tm=null&sku=509061&category_oid=-32891

Or I might upgrade the internal HD from the s**te 80gb to a 500gb and then get just one external to use as a backup drive. Anyone had any experience of this and did you have any issues?

Its for a 13" macbook on version 10.4.11,2gb ram.

This is what Im looking at getting
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/product_info.php?products_id=498

What do ya'll recommend doing?
Thanks

I got that one from PC world, sure it was only £50 though, was just after Christmas, so don't know if it was on sale.

I transfered about 20GB onto it last night and it took about 10 minutes. My lap top is as old as time itself though, so not sure if that effected it.

 

[DreamTheater]

Those Seagate externals are having high fail rates. Some people reporting within 2 weeks the hard drive is clicking, which means it's fooked.

 

[Longy]

Get yourself a cheap Raid1 NAS Drive - You pay a lot more - but well worth it if you have that much information. No point having a massive External Drive unless you can back it up daily.

 

[Moz168]

Raid1 NAS Drive can you explain this?

Ideally it would be good to have a 1tb HD in my laptop, just for the convince of not having to worry about space, which an exact copy can be made of. Then when the laptop HD is full, ill transfer a copy again to an external HD and clear the laptop, so that I have 2 copies at least.

 

[Longy]

Yeah but if you clear the laptop you end up with one copy on an external HDD which if that fails you lose everything.

RAID1 = Drive Mirroring - You have two HDD's Synced together if one fails you have a backup.

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=406572&CatId=2878

1TB Drive or 500GB (2 x 500GB HDD's Mirrored) if you use raid1.

Plus this has a network socket to plug into your router/switch rather than you laptop so it acts as a file server.

 

[Moz168]

I meant id copy the full hard drive to 2 external HD's then clear the laptop. So I would have 2 exactly the same.
I need to have something portable tbh, so I would definitely need something internal or portably external, plus I could then have a RAID system to do a full mirror every few days?

Plus this has a network socket to plug into your router/switch rather than your laptop so it acts as a file server.

So this could be accessed through my wifi connection? Would the RAID system need to be plugged into a computer or can it act as a stand alone unit?

 

[Longy]

It's stand alone - just needs power and a Network connection (Cat 5 Cable) to your router and yes access it through your wireless.