Need a good External Hard drive

[garry1312]

My team in at work are looking for a 1TB hard drive. It will be used daily for backing up a shared drive as IT are bollocks at doing so.

Does not need to a really cheap one but looking for one that has a good chance of having a long life span.

Suggestions would be great links would be great.

[Shady]

Buffalo 1TB DriveStation External Hard Drive - Hi.. | Ebuyer.com
ive had mine for about 2yrs now, still going strong

[garry1312]

seen that one today shady and is the one I like. Most likely the company wont order from Ebuyer and end up paying twice the price but hopefully if I have a few options we will get one we want

[masur123]

I either use Seagate or Buffalo. Got a seagate one now. Its unfortunate, but after the floods in Thailand the prices for these things have gone through the roof!

[garry1312]

I either use Seagate or Buffalo. Got a seagate one now. Its unfortunate, but after the floods in Thailand the prices for these things have gone through the roof!

Yeah prices are higher mate. Not me paying for it anyway be the company.

Any internal HDD I buy is always Samsung SpinPoints does anyone know any Samsung external model that has a Spinpoint drive inside?

[cunny]

To be honest. Ive always done my own. When i have a spare HDD kicking about i put it in a enclosure.

If its for backups of work, are you sure you wont want a NAS enclosure so anyone can access it at any time?Enclosures i get

CIT USB 3.0 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure - CITUSBENC35M143S - CCL Computers

This is the NAS i bought (come down also) ITs got 2x2tb on a raid 0 but can be used to stripe and auto backup data

Netgear MS2000 STORA 2-bay (no disks) NAS Enclosure | Ebuyer.com

[lagerland]

Yeah prices are higher mate. Not me paying for it anyway be the company.

Any internal HDD I buy is always Samsung SpinPoints does anyone know any Samsung external model that has a Spinpoint drive inside?

Its abit hit and miss tbh gaz me mates one died and i had a play with it got it working.Toshia plastered all over it opened it up and its a western digital...............

[garry1312]

To be honest. Ive always done my own. When i have a spare HDD kicking about i put it in a enclosure.

If its for backups of work, are you sure you wont want a NAS enclosure so anyone can access it at any time?Enclosures i get

CIT USB 3.0 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure - CITUSBENC35M143S - CCL Computers

This is the NAS i bought (come down also) ITs got 2x2tb on a raid 0 but can be used to stripe and auto backup data

Netgear MS2000 STORA 2-bay (no disks) NAS Enclosure | Ebuyer.com

Hey mate yeah I like the idea of a NAS but work in a refinery so it's a large network and the setup of a NAS would need to go through IT and for a start there useless and next they would question it to get out of doing it. IT in here are a nightmare.

I like the idea of the enclosure as I buy Samsung Spinpoint HDD's and really cant fault them they do a great job so then I would know what is inside it if we went the enclosure route but then would have to explain to purchasing .

[Puffingweed]

Buffalo 1TB DriveStation External Hard Drive - Hi.. | Ebuyer.com
ive had mine for about 2yrs now, still going strong

I agree these are excellent drives I have 2 and they have never given me any problems they are also encrypted so you can keep your data private. I went for this version though as it doesn?t need a power supply.

Buffalo 1TB Shock Resistant Portable Hard Drive with.. | Ebuyer.com

[03ahmads]

I would have to say a Samsung S2 USB 3.0 1tb portable drive. I have one and it is really reliable and speedy via usb 3.0 connection and also good speeds on usb 2.0, it's really small, lightweight and portable. I bought mine from PC World.