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Can anyone tell me a good external hard drive for my laptop.

my laptop is full so need one, anything over 100gb should be good
 
whichever you go for, if you buy from pc world be sure to use the reserve and collect instore option to save a few quid. example: WD 320gb my passport essential is 80.00 in store and 65.00 reserve and collected.
 
Maplins are selling a 1.5TB Maxtor one for £140 at the moment.
 
JonClarke said:
Can anyone tell me a good external hard drive for my laptop.

my laptop is full so need one, anything over 100gb should be good
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If don't fancy stretching the budget and worry to the 1.5tb @ Maplins then Staples have a Verbatim 120gb usb powered pocket size drive for £29.99 with 2 year warranty for what it's worth.
 
Depends what you want - truly portable usb-powered only then Freecom and Lacie make them, but you get less gb for your £s. Or desktop bricks that have to be powered from the mains - more gb for your £.

Whatever you get, don't get anything with the Maxtor name. The most unreliable drives around.
 
MisterE said:
Depends what you want - truly portable usb-powered only then Freecom and Lacie make them, but you get less gb for your £s. Or desktop bricks that have to be powered from the mains - more gb for your £.

Whatever you get, don't get anything with the Maxtor name. The most unreliable drives around.
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i haven't had any trouble with my maxtor drive (though the externals may be different..)
 
Staples do the Freecom portable storgae devices.

£39.99 for the 160GB version I believe.
 
itsjosh said:
its been 2/3? years
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That's about right. Maybe 4 years if you're lucky. Of the 15 or so Maxtor drives I've bought over the past 10 years all have died in under 4 years. Then there are the three that were doa. They used to have a 5 year warranty. Then it was dropped down to one year.

I'm sure lots have people have had Maxtor drives for longer. I've also had WD, Seagate, IBM (before it became Hitachi), and Freecom drives fail. But nowhere like the Maxtor have.
 
MisterE said:
Give it time. Make sure you're backed up (the drives I mean). Always.
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Don't worry about the Maxtor drives they are sound , the old Maxtor drives did suck , and were terribly unreliable but Maxtor has now acquired Seagate so they now use Seagate drives with the Maxtor branding so its safe to buy Maxtor again :thumbs:
 
I've had 2 hitachi drives identical size and bought just over a year ago fail in the last 6 months.
 
I bought a Lacie from Makro for £40 + VAt and that's a 500gb drive and I haven't had any complaints with it and its fast too!
 
MisterE said:
Depends what you want - truly portable usb-powered only then Freecom and Lacie make them, but you get less gb for your £s. Or desktop bricks that have to be powered from the mains - more gb for your £.

Whatever you get, don't get anything with the Maxtor name. The most unreliable drives around.
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The company i work for has currently got around 3000 Maxtor Onetouch devices deployed to laptop user's which they use as a backup device , the majority (approx 2000)were deployed in 2005 and we have had virtually zero failures. The One touch 4 is approx £70.00 for a 500GB drive , and this comes with a 5yr warranty.
 
Something worth noting, hard drives like Maxtor carry or did carry a 3 year warrantee which is seperate for the computer one. I had A maxtor completely pack up, the guy in the shop managed to find the fault code sent the drive off to Maxtor and they sent back larger replacement, and that was only a year ago.

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