External Hard Drive

[mikey4020]

I was looking at adding an external hard drive to my PC for backup purposes because of a scare I had last week. The problem is I don't know whether to buy an external one or get one of those cases where the hard drives can be added to it such as this one from eBay. I think buying a conventional one would be more expensive but I'm not sure whether using one of these external cases would yield good results i.e heat management. Your opinions would be appreciated.

[dingdong]

I think pc world do good value external hard drives. Maybe worth a look

[Annie UK]

I got a LACIE 250Gb USB2.0 recently and it's brilliant at £85.00

It's compact and quiet as it has no fan and it is designed by porche

I also got an IDE to USB adapter for recovery purposes they are good and do work on any IDE device but the HDD gets rather hot so I would say OK for short bursts ie. backups.

[garyb]

Hi,
Not sure on your budget but there are 100s out there..
http://www.seagate.com/products/reta...l/usbfirewire/
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=139013

G

[mikey4020]

I don't have an unlimited amount of cash, I'm at the consideration of options stage. I was just wondering whether to buy an external case and add a hdd or just buy a plain old external hdd.

[Johnny7]

I don't have an unlimited amount of cash, I'm at the consideration of options stage. I was just wondering whether to buy an external case and add a hdd or just buy a plain old external hdd.

I bought an external HD from these guys:
http://www.misco.co.uk/categories/~1...d%20Drives.htm - good choice and good prices.

I can easily plug into different comps and do a back-up - I'm happy

john

[bravedan]

I bought a USB HDD case...has proven it's worth as apart from running with a drive bought for it, has also been used to recover files from a HDD with a terminally corrupt OS and on another PC where I needed to up the HDD size.......put orig in case, format new in PC, install OS, and copy files across..........and I use it as a giant flash drive between two locations with desktops..................it's paid for itself in saved time several times over.

[Ratti3]

I've got a couple of these, they have better passive cooling

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=164982

[jennifer]

My external drive is in a caddy bought seperately. It takes both PATA and SATA and I have also used it to format and configure other desktop drives using software on my laptop.

It has its own cooling fan and came from eBuyer for £14.99. Then buy any desktop drive you like.

SATA is standard and the caddy came with a circuit to add in for PATA.

jennifer

[davekimber]

Hi I have been running this caddy for over a year with no problems

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/74827/rb/22132286800

with a 120G HD set as a master.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/97511/rb/22132106490

the whole lot for under £60 delivered

main draw back is the caddy requires a 240v power supply to run