External Hard Drives.

[tokyochojin]

Guys can anyone recommened a decent external HD for my Samsung V60 laptop? I've checked Ebuyer but there are that many that i don't have a clue which are good and which are cack. I'm looking for something around 80-120 gig and pretty smallish....

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[kernow]

you could buy a USB2/firewire hard disk enclosure and then put any IDE drive of your choice in there, one idea at least.

you can't go wrong with many of the brands, I use my ipod mostly for an external drive

[bash]

I luv my Lacie 200gb Ext HDD, certainly not small, but being designed by Porsche, its dam sexy

[tokyochojin]

Any direct links fellas?

I really do need a smallish one though, as i do alot of moving between Japan and England.

[Manmonkey]

If you don't mind paying a primium for portability, you can't go wrong with one of these bad boys...

http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10655

100GB it fits in your pocket, and is host powered. Awesome little things, we've bought about 5 of these for work, for no good reason other than the fact they're so cool! Not exactly cheap though!

[HaHaUK]

I bought a PikaOne 250gb one last week, and its great:

http://www.rgml.co.uk/productdetails.asp?ProductID=1861&ProcessType=1

[tokyochojin]

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[Cobertizo]

I would suggest that you get on to pricerunner.co.uk and do a search for external hard drives up to ?80 or so. Good names to go for are the traditional big names (Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital etc) and Lacie.

Here's a few that came up on Pricerunner fairly readily:

http://www.epcbuyer.com/products.asp?partno=hdd-usb2-lacie-80GB-300698EK

http://www.epcbuyer.com/products.asp?partno=hdd-usb2-lacie-160GB-300700EK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009F0T0C

[tokyochojin]

cheers for that fella!

I've got the one i want from that.