Which External Hard Drive?

ardvark · 23rd September 2011, 15:55

The lad has started Uni this week and he's been told his memory stick is way to small. It's been suggested a 1TB external hard drive would be best. We are talking about the ones about twice the size of a blackberry phone and as slim. Do any members have any suggestions to what flavour is better that than others?

baconbuttyman · 24th September 2011, 12:11

tbh, all external hdd's have a branded hdd inside, all seem to be as good as each other, i make my own up when i need one, does he really need 1 tb drive, thats a huge amount of space for college work, would probably use about 5% of that on college work. i have a 1 tb hdd which i use for all back ups etc, pics, hdd home movies etc and just touching on 300 gb.

suffolk boy · 24th September 2011, 12:32

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ardvark · 2nd October 2011, 10:02

I've got the lad to talk to some of the students who are on year two of his course. Most have a 500gb and have never even come close to using it all. As a 500gb is a more reliable unit I'm asking members if anyone have one of that size and what they think of it and would they recommend it?

Canon · 2nd October 2011, 10:38

500GB for £45.00 delivered

http://www.ebuyer.com/255186-buffalo...-pc500u2-bk-eu

Tatts · 2nd October 2011, 11:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardvark

I've got the lad to talk to some of the students who are on year two of his course. Most have a 500gb and have never even come close to using it all. As a 500gb is a more reliable unit I'm asking members if anyone have one of that size and what they think of it and would they recommend it?

I've got a couple of 500gb external HDDs and 3 1tb HDDs. Made them all myself; I just keep an eye on who's got the best offers on the actual HDD and the caddy it fits in.

Reliability? never had a problem with any. Infact, since I got my first PC in 1997 I've never had a HDD fail. Still make regular back-up's though

MangoMan · 2nd October 2011, 11:40

I bought this when I was in Portugal 59 Euros at Worten, http://www.worten.pt/ProductDetail.a...659498&oid=&c= it was 69 something but they gave 10 Euros off when I asked for a discount?!

I think it's very good! You can get the Mini 2.5 version aswell. http://memup.co.uk/KIOSK-LS-MINI-SER...lity_a110.html I'm sure they are locally available.

Cheers, Bill.

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ardvark Al 75 CDTI Tourer Auto Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Studley Posts: 1,457 Thanks: 1 Thanked 69 Times in 48 Posts	I've got the lad to talk to some of the students who are on year two of his course. Most have a 500gb and have never even come close to using it all. As a 500gb is a more reliable unit I'm asking members if anyone have one of that size and what they think of it and would they recommend it? __________________ ARDVARK

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2nd October 2011, 11:40	#7
MangoMan This is my second home Looking.... Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: England Posts: 10,911 Thanks: 862 Thanked 1,111 Times in 868 Posts	I bought this when I was in Portugal 59 Euros at Worten, http://www.worten.pt/ProductDetail.a...659498&oid=&c= it was 69 something but they gave 10 Euros off when I asked for a discount?! I think it's very good! You can get the Mini 2.5 version aswell. http://memup.co.uk/KIOSK-LS-MINI-SER...lity_a110.html I'm sure they are locally available. Cheers, Bill. __________________ *Regards, Bill - (MangoMan).* (Member 00854) http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original

24th September 2011, 12:11	#2
baconbuttyman Banned Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 5,724 Thanks: 0 Thanked 9 Times in 7 Posts	tbh, all external hdd's have a branded hdd inside, all seem to be as good as each other, i make my own up when i need one, does he really need 1 tb drive, thats a huge amount of space for college work, would probably use about 5% of that on college work. i have a 1 tb hdd which i use for all back ups etc, pics, hdd home movies etc and just touching on 300 gb.