Looking to buy an external harddrive. Can anyone recommend a good one

and what is a reasonable price to pay. It will be used to store all items from my current PC and also to backup files for business.

Seen a few 1TB sized ones, is that too much/not enough?

Posted By: conker on June 15th 2011 at 10:11:33

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Looking to buy an external harddrive. Can anyone recommend a good one (General Chat) - conker, Jun 15, 10:11:33
- Won't beat this... (General Chat) - Rofl_Harris, Jun 15, 10:28:08
  - Cheers mate, assumed from all of the WOTB bollocks I'd get a couple of (General Chat) - conker, Jun 15, 10:37:57
    - also...... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Jun 15, 11:32:32
    - Oi! When are you coming in? Did you get my email? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Jun 15, 11:09:49
      - about 1230-1245 mate if thats ok? (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Jun 15, 11:51:11
        
        see you then (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Jun 15, 11:52:28
        
        The Wraff Co-op (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 11:52:08
        
        Sean Beans. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 15, 11:52:38
        
        10% blood pressure rise (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 11:53:41
        
        26% When Saturday Comes Tilt (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 15, 11:54:52
  - Is that refurbished? (n/m) (General Chat) - lurd, Jun 15, 10:34:34
    - ^^^ this is how it starts ^^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 15, 10:40:12
    - no, brand new.... (General Chat) - Rofl_Harris, Jun 15, 10:38:43
    - It's ?56 when you add the postage on (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 10:36:50
- Western digital 2tb I've got cost ?70, that was January (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 10:18:27
  - Portable ones are nearer ?90+ though (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 10:18:46
    - Still in January prices, this ones ?75 (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 10:22:59
      - Thanks Pants, the one listed above by Rolf looks pretty good price wise (General Chat) - conker, Jun 15, 10:38:40
        
        If you're having it for stand alone it's cool. It's the one I've got (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 10:39:19
        
        It's only to back things up, getting shot of the current PC and will no doubt have files (General Chat) - conker, Jun 15, 10:40:00
        
        Perfect then (General Chat) - pants, Jun 15, 10:42:08
- Depends if you've got more or less than a terabyte of data to store. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 15, 10:13:01
  - how many terabytes can you fit onto a floppy disk? (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 15, 10:15:09
    - 0.00000137329102 per standard 1.44MB floppy. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 15, 10:21:15
      - how many floppies will i need for 9 pterodactyls then? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 15, 10:32:55
      - No, you're spot on. (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jun 15, 10:24:43
        
        I didn't fancy trying to write 1.37etc times ten to the minus six on here (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 15, 10:26:49
    - 9 (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 15, 10:17:23
      - a nonabyte then (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 15, 10:20:23
  - I'm looking at buying a bookcase, I've seen one that's 51 inches wide (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 15, 10:14:22
    - Yes. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jun 15, 10:23:49
    - I'm going to take a guess that you've got more books than that, so I'd say "no." (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 15, 10:23:25
    - sure (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 15, 10:15:34
      - I wasn't asking you, AB is the Official Wrath Size Expert, he just dealt with the terror (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 15, 10:19:27
        
        ok, give him some detail man.... (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 15, 10:31:51

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