Best external HDD??

The-Game

I'm looking to buy an external HDD with 1TB Capacity to use as a backup for movies etc to move them off my pc and store them there.

Ive seen a few in stores etc around the €100 mark but wonder does anyone have one that they can reccommend?? Or any particular best brands etc??

Solitaire

I've seen the WD Elements 1TB for under €90 on Pixmania. USB only mind, no Firewire. Personally never had a problem with any modern WD drive.

Unregistered.

Solitaire wrote: »

Personally never had a problem with any modern WD drive...

I don't like the look of that dot dot dot . . .

Solitaire

Honestly! Misquoting me like that! :P

Gangsta

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

Cheapest around. Think you can pick it up from Blanch to save on p+p.

ED E

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=369924

Bit dearer but I trust Seagate and thats a faster drive at 7200rpm:)

They have a nice tower(What I use) but Komplett only have that in the pro line.

Solitaire

I wonder if a 7200rpm HDD would make much of a difference given its still on USB...

kfish2oo2

Doesn't make a tiny bit of difference. I had my movie collection backed up on a 7,200RPM external drive and a 5,000RPM drive and they both transfered the same content at the same speeds. The 5,000RPM drive was a tad slower by about 3 seconds, but considering I was transfering 200+ GBs, its really a miniscule difference.

Tea_Bag

kfish2oo2 wrote: »

Doesn't make a tiny bit of difference. I had my movie collection backed up on a 7,200RPM external drive and a 5,000RPM drive and they both transfered the same content at the same speeds. The 5,000RPM drive was a tad slower by about 3 seconds, but considering I was transfering 200+ GBs, its really a miniscule difference.

great infomation i say!


if you're in Dublin, and if the special is still on, Peats is selling Omega 1TB drives for 80 euro... USB only.

Solitaire

kfish2oo2 wrote:

Doesn't make a tiny bit of difference. I had my movie collection backed up on a 7,200RPM external drive and a 5,000RPM drive and they both transfered the same content at the same speeds. The 5,000RPM drive was a tad slower by about 3 seconds, but considering I was transfering 200+ GBs, its really a miniscule difference.

Thanks, had similar experiences myself a few times on smaller transfers but wanted to see if anyone else had noticed and I wasn't simply going mad

The-Game

Thanks for the replies guys, i think its down to the Seagate Freeagent or the Iomega .... any thoughts? I would think seagate might be more reliable?

eman66

A lot of Seagate drives come with 5-year warranties I think.

ED E

kfish2oo2 wrote: »

Doesn't make a tiny bit of difference. I had my movie collection backed up on a 7,200RPM external drive and a 5,000RPM drive and they both transfered the same content at the same speeds. The 5,000RPM drive was a tad slower by about 3 seconds, but considering I was transfering 200+ GBs, its really a miniscule difference.

Write and wrong.

Transfer speeds will be the same. Seek times will be different.

breadbin

The-Game wrote: »

Thanks for the replies guys, i think its down to the Seagate Freeagent or the Iomega .... any thoughts? I would think seagate might be more reliable?

my 6 month old freeagent died on me last week.

Voodu Child

I would go with the €80 WD Elements. It is a 7200rpm drive, so most of the above arguing is irrelevant.

zod

do u need the files to be external ?

Internal drives are accessed faster and spin down when u don't need em, if u have space maybe consider .. they're easy to fit

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=479453