Recommend me a cheap external hard drive

[montana]

I am not fussed about spec etc as i want it simply to back up my laptop so i can downgrade from vista to XP - the cheaper the better.

Any recommendations?

Thanks

 

[SamP]

Whatever is cheapest. HDD prices have sky rocketed following the floods in vietnam so expect to pay more than you'd expect.

 

[DanielJames]

Whatever is cheapest. HDD prices have sky rocketed following the floods in vietnam so expect to pay more than you'd expect.

Thailand/Taiwan too

well pretty much most of that part of the world is fecked!

 

[Martin_172]

best bet is going 2nd hand due to the above, also price up a 2nd hand hard drive in what ever size you need and a cheap enclosure.

you considered an upgrade to 7 rather than a down(upgrade!) to XP from vista? you would be surprized how well 7 runs on older hardware. i tried it on my old IBM T40 1.8ghz pentium M with 1gb of ram and it ran brilliant! granted not quite as good as XP though, but i recon with 2GB of ram it would have been sweet! i still use XP on it though! just cant justify a ram upgrade as i rarely ever use it these days!

 

[sbridgey]

this doesn't seem to badly priced

http://www.cclonline.com/product/23916/HXMU050DA/G32/External-Storage/500GB-Samsung-S2-Portable-Hard-Drive/BAK1300/

 

[sbridgey]

this is also a bargain at the moment

http://www.cclonline.com/product/27...SpinPoint-F3-HD103SJ-Hard-Disk-Drive/HDD0933/

 

[Revels]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sea...rd-drive-119-deliver-collection-argos-1047309

 

[ekaJ]

Theres a 500gb one in Lidl for £30.

 

[AK]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sea...rd-drive-119-deliver-collection-argos-1047309

That's pretty decent!