Suggestions please for good brand & place for great deal on external hard drive

I want a 2TB portable external hard drive.

I should be able to use the portable with my desktop until I transfer to a laptop, shouldn't I?

 

Never had a problem with the Western Digital "My Passport" range. As for a good deal I cannot suggest anything as I m in the UK, but Amazon has had some great offers over here so perhaps it is the same on the other side of the pond?

 

I have 2 of the My Book Western Digital brand that I have been using for several years and neither of these have given me any problems at all. I do a lot of shopping on Amazon but I can't say if they have the best prices on hard drives but usually on other products, they do for me. Good Luck!

 

Stay away from Iomega. Last year I needed one quick so my local Radio Shack,which is open at night,was selling Iomegas. It failed after 7 months. The Iomega forum,at the time, was loaded with pages of complaints about the same issue.

 

Thanks for the advice, guys.

I am looking seriously at getting this one :

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1455023&CatId=4227

I'm hearing on other threads that external drives are not built for continuous use (cooling has been mentioned as an issue) and that one needs to go the more expensive route of an internal hard drive in an enclosure. Comments?

 

just watch on slickdeals.net as they have good deals on portable external drives all the time.

 

I've had good service from fry's,that same harddrive can be found here:
http://www.frys.com/product/7169672?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Not sure about the need for fans with the 2.5 external drives.I own a few WD passports and they go into a 'sleep' mode after a few minutes of inactivity. hope this helps.

 

This just showed up this afternoon... use Promo Code = EMCYTZT4603 to bring it under $100.

Portable Disk

 

Your link doesn't work RF

 

I just redid the link... try it again.

 

The link now works.