Thread: Recommend me an external/portable TB HDD

Ez guys,

I have a 160gb external harddrive for all my tunes on serato,but for the last 6months or so its been playing right up,switching on and off when it feels like it
so ive put the mpfrees im most likely to play on my lappy which has now slowed down so much that it skips tunes when i listen to the recording ~x(

Ive got around £100 - £150 to play with and need at least 1TB hard drive as when i get round to rippin my vinyl i want it in WAVS only, Also need it to last longer than 2 years.

Ive been looking on pc world but theve only got three for sale on there and i dont know where to start.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/portable- ... teria.html

Thanks in advance for any help/advice

Think I asked this question about a year ago, but never got round to getting one

I think the main response was not to buy Seagate products mate

Originally Posted by swipezster

Think I asked this question about a year ago, but never got round to getting one

I think the main response was not to buy Seagate products mate

I was looking at the seagate one,but will now look at the others

Myself and 2 others have this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digi...9344632&sr=8-4
Mine is now full with films (which I use with the WDTV gadget).

That model is now discontinued so not sure what the newer one is like.

Also have just bought one of these 1.5tb drives :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Stor...9344711&sr=8-1

This will also be used for more of the same - has great reviews on amazon.

Last year I got a 1.5 Terrabyte Samsung Story Station from Novatech which costs £90 & it's great

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prod ... 015EB.html

The best part is it didn't cost me a penny either! A guy who works for Novatech messaged me on soulseek saying that he wanted all my 89 - 96 oldskool & we did a deal

Yeah the 1.5 looks pucker mate,and its a name ive heard of

will look into that cheers RG

Originally Posted by Rogue_D

Last year I got a 1.5 Terrabyte Samsung Story Station from Novatech which costs £90 & it's great

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prod ... 015EB.html

The best part is it didn't cost me a penny either! A guy who works for Novatech messaged me on soulseek saying that he wanted all my 89 - 96 oldskool & we did a deal

Same one I just got from Amazon
Only problem is (which I think is another Win7 issue) is I started formating it to NTFS format last night & so far it's only about 1/2 way through!!!
Should only take about 4hrs, but it's been about 14 so far..

I'm also using win7 but when mine arrived it didn't need to be formatted, it was ready to go!

Originally Posted by Rogue_D

Last year I got a 1.5 Terrabyte Samsung Story Station from Novatech which costs £90 & it's great

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prod ... 015EB.html

The best part is it didn't cost me a penny either! A guy who works for Novatech messaged me on soulseek saying that he wanted all my 89 - 96 oldskool & we did a deal

Bit of a silly question here,whats bigger terra or tiggabite ?

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Originally Posted by Rogue_D":35b9wscq]Last year I got a 1.5 Terrabyte Samsung Story Station from Novatech which costs £90 & it's great :-bd

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The best part is it didn't cost me a penny either! A guy who works for Novatech messaged me on soulseek saying that he wanted all my 89 - 96 oldskool & we did a deal

Bit of a silly question here,whats bigger terra or tiggabite ?[/quote:35b9wscq]

Never heard of a tiggabyte But it sounds painfull There's gigabyte 's, i.e a gig

Originally Posted by Rogue_D

I'm also using win7 but when mine arrived it didn't need to be formatted, it was ready to go!

Mine was as well, but for use on the WDTV, to get best performance it needs to be formated to NTFS 64k clusters.

in my experience your better off buying a hard disk and an enclosure rather than a sealed unit. then that gives you the option of buying a bigger disk when it fills up (doesnt matter how big they are they will fill up at soempoint!!)

Maplin do a 1tb hard drive for £79 and its quiet good, its 7200 spped and 16mb cache so it will be fast. I have 2 of them and never had any trouble and I travel with them. Good deal and worth the money. :-)

ez lads

Ive just gone an bought the 1.5 Terrabyte Samsung Story Station from amazon


So thanks for all your help/advice guys

I got one of these bad boys a few months ago for about £95 & it worked straight away with Windows 7 on my laptop & i't's half full now http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-1-5Tb-Externa ... 3efc37f9b1

Upgraded from this one (which i still have & use) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Buffalo-JustStore ... 45eec9a485

i bought the seagate 1tb expansion drive in january...got it from pc world online,and cost 60 quid...i thought at the time that was a gd deal....can someone pls tell me wats wrong with seagate? as ive been told to only get those! and ive not had a prob with any seagate drives ive had to date.

Originally Posted by dj soto

i bought the seagate 1tb expansion drive in january...got it from pc world online,and cost 60 quid...i thought at the time that was a gd deal....can someone pls tell me wats wrong with seagate? as ive been told to only get those! and ive not had a prob with any seagate drives ive had to date.

This is the problem:

http://www.maxtor.com/home-en-us.html

I personally had 2x maxtor drives go wrong on me within weeks of each other (both internal ones).
Also know a couple of people that have had problems.

Saying that though, a brand new 1tb internal WD drive I got with my new pc started going wrong (lock ups / freezing) - I thought it was a power or Windows 7 issue, but turned out to be the drive dying, so looks like even with a quality brand u can get problems....

recently bought a verbatim from ebay 500 g and its been faultless, although even more recently i got a 1tb iomega drive and it sucks, terrible speeds , huge chunk hideous really .

get something decent is what i would say