External hard drive recommendation please...

We also have the 1Tb Western Digital Mybook, one at home, and one at work, both plugged into a network so they are accessible from any machine. Has transformed the way I store data at work now, and it was also very easy & cheap!

The lacie 750 GB is only 69.99 at maplin at moment. It is 3.5 inch not the 2.5 inch one.
If you prefer the portable small size ,I like the smallest pocket hard disk from plextor which is just 1.8 inch size link.

For longer warranty segate and other companies five five years warranty.

Hi petermac i only use Western digital drives i had a couple of seagate ones which were ok but started to lockup after a while.The western digital my book essential's are great i have two of them no problems so far.Touch wood

wow... thanks for all the replies.

i'll take a look at the western digital drives as well as the Lacie and Iomega i've been looking at.

I'm also looking at getting an external hard drive at the end of the month. Has anyone had any experience with the Buffalo Drivestation. Only £50 for a 500GB and they seem to get very good reviews.
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I've noticed another thread in general chat so I'm asking this question there as well

I've had 2.5'' 250GB WD Passpor Essential dropped (unplugged) from about 40cm on the table and things went wrong but I don't know to which extent: copying some music for a baby of a friend of mine, when listening to the burned CD afterwards I found out only mixed punk music located on another part of the drive, hehe. So for now only linking has changed... but I'll be buying another 2.5'' drive anyway, to make sure. You won't transport 3.5'' as often as the 2.5'' which makes it safer - just because of size and weight.

I have a Lacie 160gb drive have partitioned it into Music, Files and Photos
no problems.

keep on clikin

Had the same problem also once by unplugging the drive while i was transfering files. simply scan your disk for errors, it's done in 30secs and will restore/repair the links.