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External Hard Drive

  • 23-06-2010 1:52pm
    #1
    Onecoolcookie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭


    Looking to get one of these to back up all the documents and photos from my latop, is there anything in particular I should look out for what brands are the best/most reliable ?


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  • #2
    vibhutirs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭vibhutirs


    Western Digital is among good ones. What is your budget?


  • #3
    Onecoolcookie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭Onecoolcookie


    Not too much to be honest, around €100


  • #4
    vibhutirs
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    WD HDD would be your best bet in that case,


    Link to amazon


  • #5
    paraiceen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭paraiceen


    I recently bought Samsung Story Station 1.5 Tb from Komplett for about €100. Was highly recommended on Amazon.co.uk. Looks good. Working fine. Easy to set up - just reformat to NTFS to manage large file sizes which is easy to do!!
    Google "convert FAT32 to NFTS"


  • #6
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    paraiceen wrote: »
    I recently bought Samsung Story Station 1.5 Tb from Komplett for about €100. Was highly recommended on Amazon.co.uk. Looks good. Working fine. Easy to set up - just reformat to NTFS to manage large file sizes which is easy to do!!
    Google "convert FAT32 to NFTS"

    bought the same thing the other day (i think u might have recommended it!) and it works great. Easy reformat to NTFS and works quick. FAT32 out of the box is pretty cool tho - the format needed to hook up to the PS360. Use "swissknife" to convert hard drives (make sure there's nothing on it u want) and quick format. It's done in like 20 seconds!

    Copied over ~300GB on it yesterday which did take a few hours but it is a lot of space. Can't hear it. Definitely better than the WD 1.5TB one which seems to be really slow. I'm not a fan of blinking light hard drives but it comes from under the front of it, and u can change the brightness which is kinda cool. HDDs are in my peripheral vision when on the PC/TV though.


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