Looking for a new hard drive and I'm starting to side witha Maxtor - have seen a 250gb for around the £100 mark.

Anybody got one that can recommend them?

If you're looking for an external one, you could try to have a look around for an external USB2 or firewire caddy that you can insert any IDE drive in. You've then got flexibility as you can choose a drive that suits your budget and you can upgrade it later if you wish.
A friend of mine always used to say £100 was what you spent on a drive, the price per Gb seems to have dropped now and the best value seems to be a bit lower - around £75 last time I checked. I'd go with £75 on an OEM drive (tbh they're all much of a muchness now from manufacturer to manufacturer) and spend the rest on an external caddy.
Western Digital were doing some good 7200RPM drives with an 8Mb cache a while back. I wouldn't go with less than 7200RPM and look for big caches.
Do quick calculations on £/Gb - 250Gb may sound good, but do you really need it now, and is it good value?

i got a caddy from ebuyer. only wanted a data store that i accessed rarely, got a couple with 120gb hdd's in.

the caddy was £18, nothing special but its USB2 so 400mb/s and does the job for me.

i had the hdd already so it was the best option for me

Originally posted by coopster1974
Looking for a new hard drive and I'm starting to side witha Maxtor - have seen a 250gb for around the £100 mark.

Anybody got one that can recommend them?


Had two maxtor drives dies in the past 3 months, both less than 6months old.

Originally posted by Skatiechik
Had two maxtor drives dies in the past 3 months, both less than 6months old.

Likewise, have since switched to Seagate, their USB drives are nicer looking than Maxtors for same price too...

**edit - good timing by tomshardware, this just in...
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050308/index.html

I've been using Maxtor's for years - my first 10Gb one is still going strong and in daily use.

I've bought a couple of drive caddies from Ebay but the prices of ready-made units are now so low it's not always cost effective to build your own. Some prices here (http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?GroupID=219) .

Aldi occasionally do an external drive, not sure when it's in next. The good factor is that it is a three year warranty but the bad point is that it's an unknown brand.

I bought a FreeCom external HDD from Dabs about 8 months back... 120gb for £75ish, never had a problem. Not a fan of Maxtors etc...

Happy hunting :)

Theres some good prices from here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=UFNQcm9kdWN0U2VhcmNoUmVzdWx0cw%3 D%3D&order_col=sell_price&order=ASC&subcat_uid=128

Plus they're based in Sheffield! Can't get much better than that!

Regards,

Grant