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Hi all

I am looking into getting an external hard drive. Not sure yet if I am going to get a portable or desktop - ideally I guess I would go for portable but obviously they are more expensive, so looking into both at the mo.

If anyone could give me ideas of what to go for, any good deals they know of, etc. that would be great!

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Chris
 
Desktop needs mains power and is a 3.5'' drive,

Portable is usually USB powered and a 2.5'' drive

Make and model is your choice.
 
I got a couple from Maplin a week or so ago, Segate 1TB`s around £54 plus vat, they are not the portable ones, but they do hold allot of images.
 
You can pick up mains-powered 1tb external USB drives for well under £100 now.

Seagate are a good make to go for..

I have a 1tb Maxtor, 2+ yrs old and still going strong :)

A.
 
Used a 500GB Western Digital passport for a good while now and very happy with it, pleasing on the eye and easy to carry about too

Oh and its a USB powered type
 
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got a wd the other month firewire for £60 off e-bay great tool!:lol:
 
easylife said:
I got a couple from Maplin a week or so ago, Segate 1TB`s around £54 plus vat, they are not the portable ones, but they do hold allot of images.
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:agree: +1 for the seagate from maplin, pretty easy to set up and use and hides away nicely. Also very very quiet, in fact I haven't heard it yet!
 
I bought my first external a couple of years ago a Western Digital 250GB MyBook which worked fine, Since bought a 1TB WD Elements for about £55, both mains powered, powering from a USB slot on a laptop is asking a bit much I reckon.
 
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Got a couple 2.5 sized backup solutions myself. Quiet and so far, reliable!
 
I have 2 x 500gb external 3.5" which I have had a few years, got sick of plugging them in and aware I couldn't easily transport them or use them while away with the laptop so I bought a Seagate Freeagent 500gb 2.5" drive, brilliant drive and if you use it solely for photos you shouldn't need much more space.
 
I have both. A couple of mains powered 3.5's (one for photographs and one for other backups), and a portable 2.5" that runs off USB. Works fine in conjunction with a notebook computer for travel back up.
 
ebuyer.com is usually a good place for price (although I'm very anti Seagate as I've had a couple of their drives fail on me in the past - one in a RAID0 array which was a pain - thank goodness for backups :)).
 
I picked up a Philips 500gig external drive from ebay for £65 about a year ago, they seems to have come down to £55 now: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-500GB...K_Computing_HardDrives_RL&hash=item3f0325bc8e.

Its only the size of a £5 note and came with a case for safe transfer. Works via usb and has been really useful for keeping files instead of clogging up my desktops HDD.

Got tonnes of stuff on there and only used 5% capacity, wouldnt be without one now
 
I use a Western Digital MyPassport 250Gb USB portable drive when I'm on the road and have been extremely happy with it, reliable and performs well. At home I use a pair of WD MyBook Essential 1Tb USB drives, again I've been happy with their performance.
 
I have a Seagate Freeagent Portable 320GB also Seagate External 1TB.very happy with both..
Looking at the Macro Mail this afternoon you can buy a Seagate External 2TB for £79.99 + vat = (£93.99).

Ian
 
Just bought Western digital elements 1TB from Amazon £53.49
Copying all my pics. to it at this very moment from my Seagate 500GB which came from Maplins, which hasn't let me down in 2 years.
 
You can pick portable 1TB hard drives up from Currys and PC world for around £50
 
Thanks everyone. I bought the Seagate 1TB one from Maplin.
 
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