External Hard drive

[crazyem]

Hi All

Ive got so much music and craft downloads on my computer that im nearly running out of space.

Ive heard some of you talking about a external hard drive and thought i might invest in one but had a few questions

Are they big?

How much space do they hold

Are they expensive

Are there any you would recommend

Many thanks

[karenh]

Hi Emma

I bought my buffalo harddrive from argos it was 64.99 at the time and it was 600 gb. Just been on the argos site and its not there :icon_redface: which has kind of got me worried now lollollol Hope this is some help. I know alot of the other designers have them. So maybe they will have more info for you :):)

Karen x

[crazyem]

thanks Karen, didnt know they cost that muchCONF

[Deborah Lauder]

Hi Emma,

The newest of my external drives is 2TB (2000GB) way more than adquate lol lol and I managed to pick it up for £70. There are some good deals out there, try doing a price check on a comparison website like www.dealtime.co.uk or www.shopgenie.co.uk you won't need to be specific about the make or model - they're all pretty much the same - try searching for 500gb, then 1tb then 2tb - I think you'll be surprised how little there is in the price and the amount of extra space you get for your money. ;)

Good luck - I think it's a wise purchase, it will speed up your pc no end. :D

[Ali]

Hi Em, I've got a portable hard drive, not as big as the designers ones (but nowhere near as expensive either!!) I use it to store all my downloads.) It is 100GB and was only about £20!!! ;) We got it from ebay (brand new) and its only small (size of about 2 or 3 mobile phones laid next to each other!! :p) It plugs directly into my USB port on the laptop and away you go! :D That should be plenty big enough for the downloads and music you have. :D:D

[Deborah Lauder]

Wow - great bargain Ali :D. Best bit about them being usb cannected is you can take your downloads anywhere lol lol lol lol :D

[Ali]

Absolutely Debbie!!! ;) ;) ;)lollollol

[crazyem]

thanks ali and debbie

I did start looking on ebay but didnt have a clue but will look again, now i have a better idea

Ali do you know if the seller still sells them and if so can you post or email me the link

[Ali]

Sent you a PM with details of a couple Em. ;)

[crazyem]

thankyou xx

[Admin]

I have 4 hard drives so hopefully I can give you some info on this one lol lol lol

My first ever external was a 320GB Apollo, it came from eBay and cost around £40, it’s about 8 years old and still works ok but it’s a bit noisy,

The second hard drive I brought was a 500GB buffalo external hard drive but it fell off the shelf under my computer on to the floor and doesn’t work, I only had it a week so from my experience I wouldn’t recommend it, it fell from no more than 10 cm so its very sensitive,

My third hard drive is a Seagate portable hard drive 320GB and if I remember rightly it was on offer in PC World for 49.99 it’s white and silver and it’s quite small, id say its about 1.5 cm x 8cm x 15cm Nice and small, My little Seagate portable goes everywhere with me and I’ve dropped it hundreds of time so it’s quite robust:cool: i'm not to sure if they still do the 30GB cos i couldnt find it but here's the link to the 500GB version, http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0622943782.126683439 7@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadejjkfeffecflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=020593&category_oid=

My newest hard drive is a 1TB desktop Seagate which was on offer for £65 from PC World, it’s quiet and the size of 3 DVD case’s put together so it doesn’t take up much space,
Here's the link for you to have a peek http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0622943782.126683439 7@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadejjkfeffecflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=921243&category_oid=#productInformationSection

So all in all if I was to recommend any make it would be a Seagate, go online and reserve one at PC World because they always do web exclusives and you can save a fortune, but always check with Argos because they compete with PC World, don’t ask me how I know that one lol lol lol

[mazzie]

May I just add that another safe way to back up important work etc ..

open a googlemail account and send all your work to it.. That way if your PC hard drives ever fail..you have an online back up system! :):)

[Lorraine]

Seagate are very good but I have a Verbatim at the moment and it's also very good. Not expensive for what it is and very, very quiet.