Portable Hard drives - Saxperience

Hazmanscoop · 28th June 2013, 09:16

Anyone any experience on these?

Ive had memory sticks, but they just dont cut the rough and tumble of life and give up after a while.

Im looking for something fairly robust, fairly cheap(ish), small size and around the 500mb + mark.

Not bothered about colour etc (Not blazing pink or anything though)

Just after some ideas as i need one for work.

thanks

Brettles1986 · 28th June 2013, 10:02

500mb???

I assume you mean Gb tbh you can pick up 2 Tb unpowered ones from the likes of ebuyer etc for around £50

smiith · 28th June 2013, 10:17

Like Brettles says, if it doesn't actually have to be portable, I'd just upgrade your hard drive.. I was using a portable one for films and music, turned out easier just to put a bigger second HDD in my laptop and HDMI it to my tv

Hazmanscoop · 28th June 2013, 14:14

Apologies

meant 500gb

I'm a teacher so have a works laptop, but i need my own drive to store work etc on as i cant update the laptop.

jasonmayall · 28th June 2013, 16:36

I'd recommend one of these.
I've got the older version (1tb) and its a good few years old, gets used daily and is still fine.

http://www.computerlink.co.uk/samsun...FXMRtAodk0sAgg

You can probably get one cheaper elsewhere, it was just the first google result

Hazmanscoop · 28th June 2013, 21:33

Ah brilliant!

I was actually looking at one of those but wasn't sure on the plastic case.

Thanks for the info mate.

Mochachino · 28th June 2013, 22:05

I got a networked external hardeive and can access it from anywhere in the world using its IP address, very usefull.

Carlvtr88 · 5th July 2013, 14:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brettles1986

500mb???

I assume you mean Gb tbh you can pick up 2 Tb unpowered ones from the likes of ebuyer etc for around £50

I've actually been looking at some myself today. Ebuyer indeed is cheap as you're probably going to get.

Brettles1986 · 5th July 2013, 15:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlvtr88

I've actually been looking at some myself today. Ebuyer indeed is cheap as you're probably going to get.

Yeah same here, bought a DSLR now so want to store photos as well as the other stuff (porn) on there, my 250Gb isn't going to cut it anymore.

p.s. If any of you use Google Chrome browser then download the extension called 'Invisible Hand'. It searches for the best possible price for an item when a price is displayed on a site, it is not always the exact same product though so be careful.