Going to Buy an External Hard Drive (But which One to Choose)

Today I recieved Some junk mail in my Letterbox, I glanced through it,and there was a Store Catalogue for OfficeWorks (A Store here in Australia) http://www.officeworks.com.au/owbd/b2c/init.do And in it I found Some External Hard Drives. Take a look at the link I supplied, In the Left Hand Menu Scroll down to Technology and Machines, Scroll down to Drivers and Memory click on and tell me which one I should consider buying, I'm open to sugestions but am Interested in the highest capacity Models also.

 

teh maxtor onetouch drives are good.

 

Take a look at e-sata Seagate, or Freecom. Supposed to be much faster than usb or Firewire

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/08/24/seagate_500_gb_external_hard_drive_goes_esata_uk/

 

but then you need E sata socket on the motherboard.
i would say the western digital mybook is a good option.
or a seagate.
i have a maxtor one touch which works but the software that checks the status decided to use 100percent cpu when it started. it never used to but now i cant stop that unless i end the processes so i uninstalled it.
lodore

 

you would only need a pci card

http://www.lindy.com/uk/productfolder/05/51170/index.php

 

Do yourself a favour and buy 120gb of external NOTEBOOK HDD.

If you buy a regular internal HDD with case 120gb or 220gb.... it'll more than likely overheat regularly without a fan back-up and need 'frequent naps' to recover.

 

were supposed to choose products from that link or could we suggest our own?

if its teh latter, then id go with seagate or western digital.

 

I just bought 300GB Pushbutton USB 2.0/Firewire 7200RPM Combo Drive with 16MB Cache http://www.provantage.com/seagate-st3300601cb-rk~7SEGR00Y.htm

 

Not if he buys quality products. I've had a couple of dozen external hard drives and nothing like that has ever happened. Maybe buying cheap no name enclosures and a hard drive may cause this, but regular drives inside a Maxtor/WD/Seagate case? That would be a rarity.

Gerard

 

Seagate all the way.

I have their USB 2/IEEE 1394 500 GB and it's very good.

The SATA one should be even faster.