external hard drives

[pcg79]

howdy

i have a feeling my hard drive will soon die (i hear clicking but cant decide whether its the case rattling or the hard drive clicking :/) and so i want to get an external badboy to whack all the important stuff on. i imagine 250gigs will be more than enough but any size really.

budget of um... £75-100?

go go go!

 

[Clown]

I bought myself one of these, Icy Box or this Icy Box (I dunno the difference so I don't know which one I bought).

Then I got the cheapest biggest IDE drive I could find, which happened to be a Samsung 400GB on that site. It seems to be doing fine so far, although I don't know if anything else is better because this is the first time I went for an external solution. I was too lazy with all the fiddling about inside my computer. WPKenny might know what I mean .

 

[Yaka]

i have a few icy boxes me self, preeety damn reliable too.

 

[FozzySon]

As much as people have been bashing Maxtor, I still go for them (never had a problem) Bought a 350GB Maxtor external from PC World the other week, for £70.

 

[KevinUK]

Oh yeah, my external is a Maxtor too (as well as my internals ) It looks sexy in grey, plugs into the mains and is usb or firewire connected.

Get the biggest you can afford, it will too small for your needs in 1-2 years anyway

 

[Craft]

500Gb External HDD for £ 117.49 inc VAT - http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=11732&category_id=114&manufacturer_id=15

 

[Lazarus]

500GB drive at Misco for 113

http://www.misco.co.uk/cntnt/emailArchive/bc20070116.htm

 

[pcg79]

nothing above 100!! (i realise 13 is nothing but youve gotta have limits, dammit!!)

 

[KevinUK]

Just pay the £13 and forget about it

 

[Lazarus]

320 gb

http://www.misco.co.uk/productinformation/~Q75646~WW~/Iomega 320GB USB 2.0 7200RPM Hard Drive.htm

£80