External Hard Drive Buying Advice

  1. #1
    EDDY is offline Valued Member

    External Hard Drive Buying Advice

    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?


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    bkdc is offline Elite Member
    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

  3. #3
    EDDY is offline Valued Member
    Ok, thankyou once again for your advice :-)

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