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Gaz
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28th Dec 09 at 20:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Need to start thinking about getting and External Hard Drive for backing up my photography.

I want to spend around £50-80 and would like a decent make (nothing that's going to fail out of the box) but Drive space will be around 500gb+ (I understand)

Reliability is more important to me that space if I'm honest. No point in my backing a years worth of shots up if its going to fail on me straight away.


Any links/advice/idea's welcome!
Matty SRi
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http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6758624/c_1/1|category_root|Office%2C+PCs+and+phones|14418968/c_2/3|15701344|Hard+drives%2C+USBs+and+data+storage|14419053/c_3/4|cat_14419053|Hard+drives|14419054.htm
Adam_B
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28th Dec 09 at 21:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Ive got a Maxtor one i bought years ago for the exact same purpose. No problems.
noshua
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If reliability is more important get 2x500GB and do a backup of a backup instead of 1x1TB for the same price.

Seagate or Western Digital.

[Edited on 28-12-2009 by noshua]
Andrew
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I'd be going for an online backup solution or RAID if the data is really important to you.

However, ALDI have a USB external Medion 1TB Hard Disk for under £65. Comes with 3 years waranty as well.
Gaz
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28th Dec 09 at 22:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Seagate have been mentioned a lot in my questions...

Andrew - I would get an online solution but that's most costs I could do without.
jamied
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i like the western digital elements drives, made to last
Doug
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28th Dec 09 at 23:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Gaz,

You could look at a NAS solution which would make it a central data store for multiple laptops etc. Here is what I would buy:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158613

Or if that is too much cost I would just go with the non-NAS equivalent:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/178934

I have used/abused multiple Western Digital external drives over the years and not had one fail on me yet. *touches wood*

 
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