External Hard Drive Recommendations please?

Buffalo - works well for me. Cost about £80.

Maybe a Samsung S2 external? Not sure about the availability in the UK though.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5-inch-Portable-Angels-Pre-loaded/dp/B002R0DRQ0

Are you after one on price?

I want to buy one for my son's netbook, I too will be interested. I post up any results I find later.

thanks guys - for £100 quid - how much memory and how portable? i' guessing thry cant be THAT big to lug around....though size is not important....tee hee

I have a couple of 500 Gig Maxtors and a couple of 500 Gig Seagates.
Never had a problem with any of them.
I bought a 1 Tbyte Seagate from Tesco last week for £69.

They are about the size of a largeish paper back book, no probs at all.

Can probably look at 1 terabyte in a unit that's no bigger than 6 inches square.

For £100 you should be looking at something like 1TB or 1.5Tb of storage. For something more portable, it'll be around 750GB for £100.

i had an old one from 3 years ago - best western but i plug it in - all the lights work on it but the laptop wont 'find' the drive..

I've had a Packard Bell (still works), one made by Iomega (packed in - so wouldn't buy again on that basis) and now one by Buffalo (working fine).

There's a few others on this thread as well:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/561001/wd-my-passport-essential-portable-h

Seagate have a 2 Terra Byte for about £160 at Ebuyer

The Kirkstone Pass would be pretty hard especially in these conditions.

JOCI - u talking about the lake district?

Yep - a very hard drive.