Hi

I'm getting very short on hard disk space, and i am thinking or getting an external hard disk rather than an internal for convenience. It will be used almost entirely for storing music and movies.

I have decided i may aswell get a 120GB, as its worth paying a bit extra to have the option to use more space if i ever need it, but i am not sure which external hard disks on the market are good and which are bad. It must operate with USB 1.1 and USB 2

I have found an Iomega one which looks quite good, a link to it at Ebuyer is below

Iomega 120GB External HD at Ebuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=35705&PX_Session=b22bcc6d73be3aa98aeadfde6d33c862)

Does anyoen have this and can you comment on it's performance and reliability?

Are there any other similar spec external hard disks, that are good, out at a similar price (i can't spend much more than 200)

Thanks for your help

RZA
jonhewer@hotmail.com

actually Iomega makes the fastes external HDD we use one at school but dont get the Iomega Internal they really suck them seem to lock for no reason.

cheers for you help Deekay :)

can anyone else recommend iomega external hd's?

thanks

Anyone know and cheap pc hardware sites where i coudl find it for cheaper?

I borrowed a Lacie external 120Gig USB1.1/2 HD off of someone when I had to edit some DV footage.. It seemed fine and was plenty fast enough to just edit straight off of the drive. Also it had a funky blue light and well built case.

I have however had no experience with the Iomega version, so I can't really comment.

I will say this though. You DON'T want to use it with USB1.1 it takes hours just to transfer a couple of gigs.

yeh i'll def make sure whatever i get is usb 2

anyone know where i can find any reviews on these external hard disks

been looking into the lacie one cos it does look sweet, just wanna check a few things


buffer size - 2mb - is this good, as i have seen some normal hard disks that have 8mb buffers (i'm not sure what buffer size the iomega one has)

seek time - 10ms - is this good. the iomega one i'm also looking at has a seek time of a bit under 9 ms - is this a big difference?

also celtic_druid, when u borrowed the external HD, this may sound like a stupid question but, is the aluminium case quite strong and robust, or can it be easily dented?

?????


thanks
RZA

i went for the lacie one
cheers
RZA