External Hard Drive

Post by **Hammer** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:32 am

Hi I need some kind of storage to back stuff up on (pron etc

) saw <a href="http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/ ... sku=120076" target="_blank">this</a> on the tv last night. Doesn't look to bad or to pricey. What do you think. What real world transfer speeds will I get with usb 2?

Post by **Eagle** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:53 pm

Well it quotes

16MB cache buffer
Average seek time: 9.3ms

Most internal 500gb Sata Drives quote seek times of between 8.5ms and 9.0ms.

So I would say that used as backup storage it would be perfectly fine

Post by **Stocky** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:36 pm

I have this drive H & it is flawless as a storage device & for playing movies/music including huge HD movies, I woudn't install any games to it like, but for what you want it'd be perfect.

Post by **0lderama** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:26 pm

Stocky wrote: but for what you want it'd be perfect.

i hope hammer aint gonna store his jokes on there surely 8meg will do

Post by **Clingy** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:32 pm

At work we bought the 320mb one of that and a Seagate. The Maxtor looks terribly cheap and plasticy whereas the Seagate looks much better. But at the end of the day they both are doing the same job fine.

Post by **Stocky** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:23 pm

0m8n wrote: i hope hammer aint gonna store his jokes on there surely 8meg will do

If he sifts through the good ones.

Saying that though, the missing bloke in the park one was a cracker