Advice on which External HD to get?

[dfdave12]

Hi all,

Just looking for some input on which external HD to get from my family PC. It is a Dell -The internal HD is 80 GB and is almost full (79 GB), so I thought it would be a good idea to get some more space, and also to back up the files already on the HD.

Looking for as cheap as possible, but yet still maintaining good quality . Something around the range of 250-500 GB would be best too. From my initial research I thought that Seagate produced the best in terms of reliability, so am maybe leaning towards them for the time being.

Any input would be appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[n7]

Seagate externals do have a 5 yr. warranty which is nice.

They also use incredibly terrible enclosures for heat dissipation.
Their enclosures are actually a plastic-aluminum-plastic sandwich, which means the drive cooks nicely inside.

I'd personally suggest an enclosure + HDD separately, as i dislike the enclosures on pretty much all the externals i've seen.

 

[drebo]

I've used LaCie 3.5" external drives pretty extensively with no complaints. They're well priced, and attractive.

For 2.5" drives, I'll only ever recommend Western Digital Passports.