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External Hard Drive Advice

  • 28-12-2009 4:30pm
    #1
    wixfjord
    Site Banned Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,

    Ive got some great advice here previously so thought Id try my luck again. (ie throw myself on the mercy of the forum ;):p)

    Ive bought a seagate external hard drive from amazon, but Im thinking of returning it and getting an iomega screenplay multimedia 500gb.

    Now Ive heard some horror stories about these before, and some reccomendations about them aswell. It seems to be the only multimedia hard drive in the price range, so i was wondering has anyone any advice? What are my options? Is the iomega any way reliable at all if its taken care of? Does does anyone know of any deals on at the mo?

    Also does the iomega connect easily to all T.Vs. (Ive got a 7 year old sony) and all laptops (I presume once you have a usb 2.0 this is fine?)?

    As Ive said before here, Im not a complete technophobic, but Im not bill gates either!

    Thanks,
    wix


Comments

  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    IIRC Iomega dont make HDDs(Only a handfull of companies actually do, though drives that fail strict QC can be sold under lower brandnames). I'd suggest you find out whats in it. If its a decent brand like Seagate, WesternDigital, Samsung or Hitachi then go for it, otherwise do you have an Xbox360 or a PS3? If so you could stream content from the seagate through the laptop over your home network and into the console. I do it with my Xbox all the time, works like a charm(set up a media share in WMP).

    Hope this helps.


  • #3
    wixfjord
    Site Banned Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭wixfjord


    hi there cheers for the reply.

    This is what Im looking at getting.

    I dont realy recognise iomega as a brand name but there doesnt seem to be anything else in the price bracket that does the same.


  • #4
    wallycool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭wallycool


    wixfjord wrote: »
    hi there cheers for the reply.

    This is what Im looking at getting.

    I dont realy recognise iomega as a brand name but there doesnt seem to be anything else in the price bracket that does the same.

    Hey did you get that hard drive yet ? i was thinking of getting one and i was wondering how it went for you ....


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