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Old 11-09-2007, 10:06 PM
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Default Back up hard drive - Recommendations please

Basically I'm looking to buy a hard drive to back up all my photos, videos etc from my home PC. Has anyone on here got one? And what ones do people recommend?

Thanks in advance.

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Old 11-09-2007, 10:11 PM
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I got a seagate 160gb USB drive. Its fine for me.

Pissy World are doing 400gb ones for £75 at the minute I think.
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Thanks.

Any more guys?
Old 12-09-2007, 08:32 AM
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These are getting cheap as fuck lately - eg 250Gig for less that 44 quid inc.VAT


http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...ationKey=11157

Whole list here (you may need to sort by price):

http://www.dabs.com/productlist.aspx...ffset=0#Paging
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I've got a 500 Gb external drive, simply because I have soooooooooo much shite on my pc!!

Here it is:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=HD-122-WD

it cost me £150, but on that site they have this offer:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=HD-086-WD

I can't really see much difference tbh. Great little hard drive, very compact and looks mint with the coloured light-up button!
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PC world are doing a 500gb USB maxtor drive at the mo for £75. Ive got it, im using it now. I run loads of work stuff off it, important stuff, its never failed me and its nice and speedy.
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Go buy yourself a 75 quid PC world USB drive and a copy of Norton Ghost. Easy to setup and will backup whatever you want automatically according to a schedule to you.

Easy to use and setup. About 100 quid all in.
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So you just get one of these hard drives, which is a USB thing??

and transfer all pics to it?? in different folders etc?


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if you have firewire port, get a fire wire hard drive

faster than USB
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