Ext hard drive

[KenHigg]

Can anyone recommend a good ext hard drive? I was looking at this one:

Link

 

[Minkey]

I can recommend this one (designed by Porsche ) or the one we have at work clicky (I know it's more expensive but it is a 250GB drive so frantastic value for money)

 

[KenHigg]

I can recommend this one (designed by Porsche ) or the one we have at work clicky (I know it's more expensive but it is a 250GB drive so frantastic value for money)

Hum the maxtor one looks good, thanks, I'll take a look... I would like to not have to load any drivers if I need to use it on a odd machine every now and then. Plus I don't want to have to drag around a transformer power supply...

 

[Minkey]

The maxtor one doesn't need any drivers but it does have power supply, though it's not very big (8cm x 5cm x 3cm approx) or heavy

 

[Ron_dK]

Can anyone recommend a good ext hard drive? I was looking at this one:

Link

I recently bought a Canyon USB 80 Gb ext harddisk for around €90 in a local shop around the corner. Good stuff and very reliable. The development of these USB HD's is so fast , that they now have a 160GB or even an 250Gb for about € 120,00. Wish I had waited some weeks while I bought the 80Gb.
While talking about ext HD's, I'm trying to boot my computer from the HD, but haven't found a way around this yet. Would you know how to do that.

 

[Rich]

Does it appear as a drive letter in the BIOS setup?

 

[Ron_dK]

Does it appear as a drive letter in the BIOS setup?

No , it's an USB HD.

 

[dan-cat]

No , it's an USB HD.

You have to check to see if your BIOS supports USB boots first, after that here is a useful link...

http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=73590

 

[Ron_dK]

Thanks for that Dan,
I will have a look at it when I'm back home.

Cheers, Ron

 

[Vassago]

The best place I've found for computer components is http://www.newegg.com. I bought a cavalry 300 gb external sata hard drive with usb, which is one of the cheapest they carry. Cavalry uses Maxtor hard drives for their external drives, and they are much cheaper than Maxtor brand of external hard drives. I've had no problems with it, even sits cool while copying large files to it for an hour.