External Hard Drive (Esata)

[DarkAngel]

My old external hard drive has just given up, its most likely 4+ years old and has done very well.

So im in the market for a new drive im currently looking at this

Im really looking for drives 1Tb and above and a budget of Ã,£100. I would like the unit to be eSata as its a lot quicker than USB2. Im thinking the Lacie model shown above is probally the best i can get for the money, although id like to see what you guys have and your opinions before i dive in

Many Thanks

Dom

[T-Bag]

Seems fine. Not too much more than a normal external considering the bonus of eSata. Not sure of the brand. I'd be tempted to spend an extra Ã,£5.50 and get this one:

Link

It's free delivery, and you get the comfort of buying from eBuyer rather than eBay. Plus Western digital is a really good brand, that I'm happy to recommend.

[DarkAngel]

Great, WD looks like the safest option will probally make the purchase in a few days once im 100% sure i need it. Although its probally a safe purchase before the lan :norty:

[Claw]

Lacie has made some pretty decent drives. and for 88 pouns seems pretty cheap aswell.
but the main question is

do you need esata?
eSata is a 300mb/s transfer speed so in this case you wont have a drive that is fast enouth to keep up with it annyways.

if your thinking of external drives i would recomend to save money on fancy eSata and make shure you get propper coolin in it instead.
unless you have planes to share that drive cross the home network trougth a NAS os a Server.

The main reason of drives failing is the part of moving the drive and overheating, so make shure you have a fan on it so you get some cool air blowed trougth.

you might aswell consider soft feets that they can reduce vibrations wich in most cases are reasons for data loss.

- claw

[kregoron]

Lacie is one of the oldest and most reliable manufactures of enternal harddrives... good buy if you look at the name.. other then that, it looks just as generic as the rest of em like it

[Tutonic]

I use alot of external drives at work, and the Western Digital ones have been the best so far.

Lacie are ok, but generally over-priced and I've had a few randomly die on me in the past...