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KenHigg · May 11, 2006

Can anyone recommend a good ext hard drive? I was looking at this one:

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Minkey · May 11, 2006

I can recommend this one (designed by Porsche

) or the one we have at work clicky (I know it's more expensive but it is a 250GB drive so frantastic value for money)

KenHigg · May 11, 2006

Minkey said:
I can recommend this one (designed by Porsche ) or the one we have at work clicky (I know it's more expensive but it is a 250GB drive so frantastic value for money)

Hum the maxtor one looks good, thanks, I'll take a look... I would like to not have to load any drivers if I need to use it on a odd machine every now and then. Plus I don't want to have to drag around a transformer power supply...

Minkey · May 11, 2006

The maxtor one doesn't need any drivers but it does have power supply, though it's not very big (8cm x 5cm x 3cm approx) or heavy

Ron_dK · May 13, 2006

KenHigg said:
Can anyone recommend a good ext hard drive? I was looking at this one:

Link

I recently bought a Canyon USB 80 Gb ext harddisk for around €90 in a local shop around the corner. Good stuff and very reliable. The development of these USB HD's is so fast , that they now have a 160GB or even an 250Gb for about € 120,00. Wish I had waited some weeks while I bought the 80Gb.
While talking about ext HD's, I'm trying to boot my computer from the HD, but haven't found a way around this yet. Would you know how to do that.

Rich · May 13, 2006

Does it appear as a drive letter in the BIOS setup?

Ron_dK · May 15, 2006

Rich said:
Does it appear as a drive letter in the BIOS setup?

No , it's an USB HD.

dan-cat · May 16, 2006

rak said:
No , it's an USB HD.

You have to check to see if your BIOS supports USB boots first, after that here is a useful link...

http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=73590

Ron_dK · May 17, 2006

Thanks for that Dan,
I will have a look at it when I'm back home.

Cheers, Ron

Vassago · May 18, 2006

The best place I've found for computer components is http://www.newegg.com. I bought a cavalry 300 gb external sata hard drive with usb, which is one of the cheapest they carry. Cavalry uses Maxtor hard drives for their external drives, and they are much cheaper than Maxtor brand of external hard drives. I've had no problems with it, even sits cool while copying large files to it for an hour.

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