I would say..

Go for a Seagate drive, or something with a Samsung drive inside. Hitachi have a history of breaking down. I'm sure they are better now, but most techy types seem to avoid them.

I'm not sure about software, but there should be plenty to chose from, assuming you don't want to manually copy things across (which is what I do). As for them being easy to use, all the drives will just plug in with minimum setting up. It's only the software that will be different, and that can be downloaded for free if you don't like the bundled program

I'd also stay away from Currys/PCWorld. Ebuyer have a Seagate External drive for 80 quid that is twice as big as the one you linked to:

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Posted By: scruffy on March 13th 2011 at 12:24:32

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Tech advice please... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 10:40:44
- I would say.. (General Chat) - scruffy, Mar 13, 12:24:32
  - Thanks for the advice Scruffs... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 12:32:23
    - Hitachi and Seagate are pretty much the same device (General Chat) - scruffy, Mar 13, 12:36:26
      - more linkage (General Chat) - scruffy, Mar 13, 12:39:04
      - Cool - thanks again... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 12:37:58
- I have a couple of generic HDD's and use this thing (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Mar 13, 11:37:23
  - I know this is goign to sound ridiculous... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 12:24:13
    - Folder pair? (General Chat) - scruffy, Mar 13, 12:32:31
- perhaps try this one (General Chat) - doncoop, Mar 13, 11:02:51
- I'm sure either of those would be ok (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Mar 13, 10:48:55
  - Kents why do you use the external drive and Carbonite?.. (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 12:21:30
    - The only bad things are you have to pay for it (General Chat) - scruffy, Mar 13, 13:02:06
      - Yes - its ?3.00 or so a month (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Mar 13, 13:30:32
    - Backing up the backup (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Mar 13, 12:42:12
- I have the seagate one, it's brillers, (General Chat) - Al NCFC4life, Mar 13, 10:47:12
  - Al what do you mean by... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 12:27:25
    - Time Machine = Mac OS X backup (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 13:55:31
  - hare goo, (General Chat) - Al NCFC4life, Mar 13, 10:48:04
    - Good drive, but a little cheaper here (General Chat) - scruffy, Mar 13, 12:26:25
    - Thanks chaps... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 13, 11:01:29

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