External Hard Drives

[saintpeter48]

Any recommendations for buying an external hard drive, price, value for money ....... I want to use it as a back up for music, photos, etc. I leave it to the experts on here. May I say that I don't know what I'd do without you other Answerbank members, you are all so very helpful and knowledgeable, thankyou one and all. :)

[Zacs-Master]

This seems good value. There's also a 3 TB one for another £20. Sea gate are a recognised make. 2 terra bites is enormous and in more info, it tells you the rough amount of videos, music etc it will store
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/search-keywords/xx_xx_xx_xx_xx/hard+drives/xx-criteria.html

[keyplus90]

This is not bad and a good bargain I believe. I may buy one myself.

http://www.ebuyer.com/396739-samsung-1tb-m3-portable-hard-drive-black-hx-m101tcb-g

[VHG]

Note the "portable" drives don't need to be plugged into the mains, they get their power from the USB slot. However I think there is a limit of 1Tb for these.

Non-portable drives need mains power (as well as being plugged into the USB) and these can be also be 1Tb but can go as high as 2Tb or 3Tb.

[Hymie]

You could consider a 64GB memory stick – which might meet your needs as a cheaper option.

Let’s say your photos are 10MB per photo – such a device could store 6,400 photos (equivalent to over 175 rolls of 36 exposure film).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/64GB-USB-2-0-BLUE-SWIVEL-FLASH-DRIVE-MEMORY-PEN-STICK-64-64g-/161187629409?pt=UK_Computing_FlashDrives_SM&hash=item2587880961

Typically 1 hour of MP3 file will be circa 170MB (depending on compression/bit rate); so such a drive would store around 375 hours of MP3 music.

You could always buy another memory stick once you get close to running out of memory - Just something to consider.