External Hard Drive Recomendations

kmick

Looking for an external hard drive with the following traits

Reliable (Number 1)
Around 0.5-1Tb
Needs RAID1
USB or Network Enabled
Reasonably fast for reads and writes
Backup for all types of media

Around the 300-500 mark

Came up with these two. But reviews are bad on amazon.
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=332166
http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4HN3&CategorySelectedId=11157&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11157,47630000

Please help me out and recommend a drive. What about...
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=331865

Anti

For that price range you are kinda limited, but i find www.scan.co.uk have a great range of has enclosoures.

I have just bought this one myself:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=616597

And 2 750gb WD's.

kmick

What price range gives me something better? The setup you recommend is £425 which is Eur630. Seems a lot for 1Gb.

Pansy Potter

There's a 500Gb Western Digital one in Maplins for €149 or something like that.

kmick

Does it have RAID1?

Anti

kmick wrote:

What price range gives me something better? The setup you recommend is £425 which is Eur630. Seems a lot for 1Gb.

You mean 1TB yeah?

Well it depends, are you looking for huge performance and redundancy, or just a box to stick somewhere to stream media around the house? As if its the latter it would be easier, and a better solution to build a cheap pc from spare parts you have, and get 2 massive hdds.

kmick

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=331865
This has
1TB
USB Print Server
FTP Server (Access from the interweb)
ITUNES Streaming Server
RAID1

Attaches to my switch and hey presto. Unless there are any better suggestions than this I think I'm sorted.