Buffalo MiniStation Portable Hard Drives
I can't stress enough the importance of backing up your files. A computer crash can wipe out months of research work (and years of work in some cases). I personally know of a few cases where a PhD student lost all three years worth of research because their laptop crashed and he had to run here and there trying to find someone who could recover the information from the hard drive.
For this purpose, I have been using the portable hard drive I brought from over form Malaysia, all this while. At one time, 20 GBs of space was considered an enormous storage space, however, with all the photographs, movies as well as my research work, I discovered that 20Gbs doesn't amount to much now-a-days. My wife was looking for a new portable hard drive to replace her old one as well.
So we set off to search the web for a good one. We had a few criteria in mind:
To cut a long story short, we finally decided on the Buffalo 160GB MiniStation, TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive. Surveying various online stores on the net, we found that the best deals were on the Misco site. We got two drives for £39.99 each. We had to pay a total of £98.66 inclusive of VAT and delivery charges for the two.
Small outside but bigger inside.
For this purpose, I have been using the portable hard drive I brought from over form Malaysia, all this while. At one time, 20 GBs of space was considered an enormous storage space, however, with all the photographs, movies as well as my research work, I discovered that 20Gbs doesn't amount to much now-a-days. My wife was looking for a new portable hard drive to replace her old one as well.
So we set off to search the web for a good one. We had a few criteria in mind:
- Shock proof
- small profile
- Fast data transfer and
- of course, reasonably priced.
To cut a long story short, we finally decided on the Buffalo 160GB MiniStation, TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive. Surveying various online stores on the net, we found that the best deals were on the Misco site. We got two drives for £39.99 each. We had to pay a total of £98.66 inclusive of VAT and delivery charges for the two.
Small outside but bigger inside.
Comments
I need to get one for myself as well.
There are cheaper portables disks here as well but I wanted something branded (with long warranty) and shock proof as well.
Tough lesson learned when my hard drive just went kaput and my PC just refuse to boot. Couldn't even recover the files I backed up in my backup partition.