as title says looking to get hold of 100-200gb hard drive for £60-70 or under.

just to see if anyone knows any place that does these cheap within the uk.

i found a few for 80-90 but dont really want to pay that much.

thanks.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/108787

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/searc...olShowAll=true for more options.

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hmm so could go for:

1-Seagate 120GB USB2.0 7200rpm External Hard Drive - Retail £50.59
£59.45 inc VAT
quickfind code: 108787

or 2-Freecom 160GB External USB2.0 Hard Drive - Retail £51.82
£60.89 inc VAT
quickfind code: 113887
195 in stock. Usually ships same day
manufacturer #: 27031

or 3-Buffalo Drivestation 160GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive £52.35
£61.52 inc VAT
quickfind code: 92451
106 in stock. Usually ships same day
manufacturer #: HD-HB160U2-1

thinking 2 or 3 since they got more storage, but is there anything really special about hard drives than storage snc ei dont really know to much about them?

and thanks wharry.

No problem. I'd always go with a brand name I recognise.

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I'm with wharry, Buffalo make some decent network stuff, never heard of freecom, stick with Seagate imo!

Freecom are ok, they'll have made the enclosure with someone else's HD inside it, same for Buffalo. Seagate have never done me wrong though.

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http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...70&dcaid=17070

Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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not sure if they ship across the lake tho

also, search buy.com coupon, and you'll get another coupon for $15 off

debating on ordering one myself

after coupon comes to $194.95, free US shipping =p

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I contemplated getting one of those, then i realised i don't really need one, and would only drop/lose it if i did get one.

thanks for info guys, think i will go for seagate when i get paid. 120gb should be enough for a while.

yeah I know, worried about daughter knocking it over, but im running out of space on my server

SPACE - FREE SPACE
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C: 127gb - 14gb
D: 189gb - 1.93gb
E: 167gb - 20gb
F: 152gb - 5gb
Z: 165gb - 30gb

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next computer will take me over 1tera storage.

should really start burning films.

I am looking for a multi tb disk setup as I want to burn films.... But want them in RAID 5 for redundency

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I have 2x250 atm..and new computer will have 2x500 I hope anyway..then I can just plug in the two 250's I have atm.

no clue how it works tbh. I still wanna kep windows on a seperate drisk so I can do fresh installs nice and easy

yeh i was considering raid but it was all confusing... i wanted to keep one disk seperate like you for windows and stuff i use alot so that it boots quick....

i dunno if raid effects booting/loading times...i figured it would if ur merging like 4 different hard drives together

it confubbles me hehe

No idea why the hell you'd wanna install a RAID setup and then not have Windows installed on it. o_O

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as i said the whole thing confubbles me lol

dunno really, i buy big raid drives that store a lot of crap on them..and when i do fresh windows installs i dont wanna have to wipe them.

i guess i have it the wrong way round..sata for storage and normal drive for windows.

Stick Windows on a partition on the RAID array, that way you can nuke that partition any time you like without affecting your files partition.

Although that kinda raises the question of why you'd bother to stick a couple drives in a RAID array for home storage.

If they're striped for performance you're increasing your chances of data loss, and if they're mirrored you're wasting half the space!

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yup IIRc they are striped for performance.

and I didnt know you could partition RAID drives! so I can have 2 physcial drives acting as one unit...then partition it?