Rob_P Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Looking at getting a 1TB external hardrive.Been looking on the usual sites and there's just so much choice. Does anyone have any recommendations as to what drive they have had experience with?It's got to be 1TB, USB2 or firewire, power supply and work on mac.Ideally under £100 but I don't want something thats going to be cheap and nasty that will fail after a few months. What brands would people recommend? Freecom....lacie.....segate....western digital.....?I firstly looked at this Western Digital my book but after reading the reviews, 48 1 stars! christThis looks like it'll do the job, pretty basic drive but good reviews..... Western digital elementsAgain same sorta thing, I've got a 160gb freecom at the moment but it did crash on me once.... Freecom classicAny help would be great!Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 I have one of these (WD Elements)http://www.pcworld.co.uk/product.php?sku=9..._Froogle_searchBut in silver, and it's awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_P Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Ok sweet, actually cheaper on amazon too.What format did it come in? Ideally I want it as FAT32 but theres a 4gb limit on each transfer, any way of getting round that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 No, its actually a limitation of the fielsystem itself. Changing to ntfs will solve that but if your planning on using it with a mac too you'll need to separate partitions on the drive. One NTFS for windows and one either FAT32 or the mac standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Got me a maxton or somthing 1TB today for 90quid.. from maplin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenLeacock™ Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 I've got this one.Never had any problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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