Hard Drive Advice

[Mr Spyke]

If its not a silly question.... why didnt you spend £3 more and get this http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/c...enclosure.html

Its backwards compatible with USB2 but if you have or get a laptop with USB3 your transfer speed will increase from 480M to 5G

No it's not a silly question but at the moment the PC only has USB 2.0 I do supppse that fowardly thinking I should have gone for usb 3.0 for when I eventually upgrade the PC. And I also didn't realise it was backwards compatible, D'oh!

[Jason]

If you can go SSD, these will take far, far less power and so don't need an external power supply.

Prices of SSD's are now pretty good. I've got a 250GB SSD for music, it was around £150 from PC world (bare drive, I had to mount inside a caddy).

Something to consider..?

[djmikefunkdoctor]

I've heard good things about the new solid state hard drives being more reliable in the long term as they (if i recall) have no moving parts. Has anyone tried one yet?