Hello all

I'm not very experienced and need some advice about what is the best external hard drive to buy for my laptop.

I need to back up everything on my laptop including software programs, pictures, files and music and have downloaded a copy of Cobian Backup 8 to do this.

Rather than making a copy of everything on DVD's or CD's I'd like to purchase a reliable external hard drive storage system.

Can anyone offer any advice or reccommendations please?

Maxtor, Western Digital, and Seagate are all good brands. I prefer Western Digital but thats just my personal preference. Look at all three & try to get the best deal.

Since you want to use this for backup, I would get at least 160GB, 7200RPM, usb 2.0, and 8MB cache

GB = storage capacity in gigabytes
RPM = spindle rotation speed
USB 2.0 = connection type to plug into your llaptop
Cache = memory that can dramatically improve the performance

Ok, thankyou once again for your advice :-)