External Hard Drive

Capajoma

Looking for a compact 1tb external hard drive to buy. Any advice or help would be really appreciated as I'm a noob at this stuff. I'm Windows Vista. Will I need to get a power adapter because I'd rather not. Cheers guys!

chin_grin

You'd want something along the lines of this,

http://komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/05_EXTHDD/productdetails/20000039/WD_My_Passport_Essential_500_GB_WDBAAA5000ABK/WDBAAA5000ABK_EESN/default.aspx

See beside Power Source it states: USB Bus. So no lugging around plugs or anything like that.

Couldn't find 1TB drives on that site though (I did just 'skim').

EDIT: Highest capacity for USB powered on there is 750GB. I've tried looking for some HP ones (look similar) but they're not listed.

http://komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/05_EXTHDD/productdetails/20000079/WD_My_Passport_Essential_SE_750_GB_WDBABM7500ABK/WDBABM7500ABK_EESN/default.aspx

You can try other sites like elara.ie or peats.ie.

Capajoma

Thanks man.

I was actually having a look at this before I started the thread.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-WDBABM0010BBK-NESN/dp/B002OB49SM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1286910625&sr=8-2

What do you guys think?

coach22

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002E7HEVU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286918729&sr=8-1

stephenmarr

WD passports in PC WORLD are on sale for about €100 i think.
i picked up a 320GB one a couple of weeks ago for €70
nice and light and no power supply to lug around.

bonzodog2

I got a 320 GB 2.5" external 6 months ago for less than €50 including postage from ebay.