What External HDD

[Xaero]

I'm in the market for a new External HDD.

I currently have a 500Gb 2.5" Buffalo one which I'm happy with.

Need a new one for extra storage/backup, and I want to empty my netbooks HDD so it runs faster.

Anyone have recommendations? Most important feature is it's small and portable, so no 3.5" ones. I want 1Tb ideally too, the more the merrier.

Also I'd prefer it to be under £100 but I think most 2.5" 1Tbs are around £130ish, which I don't mind stretching too if it's good. Need reliability too, I know a few 1Tb ones cock up.

[-DeaDLocK-]

They're all basically the same. Before you settle on any one model, just go over to Newegg and Amazon USA to read the user reviews on it to make sure you're not buying a drive with a high failure rate.

[Silent1]

GEt whatever one contains a hitachi drive.

Or buy an icybox and build one yourself.

[Xaero]

I guess Googling is the only way to work out which one have hitachi drives?

Was hoping someone would recommend one they've already bought, thanks all the same though.

[Silent1]

All my external hard drives are icyboxes containing Hitachi Deskstar drives, basically you want a drive with a transfer rate of around 400mbps as that's the USB 2.0 specification speed, so something like this:
Hitachi Deskstar 500gb

or this:
Hitachi Deskstar 500mb

Combined with this [url]Icybox|http://www.icybox.com.tw/page/3.5_products/3.5_ib-371stus2b.htm[url] will be perfect.

[Space Invader]

Get one that you can Raid if what you're storing is important.

[Xaero]

Silent1 - that's a 3.5" drive. It might be better technically, but portability is more important for it, so weight and size needs to be lower.

[Silent1]

Ah st, sorry didn't see the size requirement bit!