I'm looking to buy a need internal hard drive for my lap top any ideas?

If the data has some value (eg holiday photo's) you need a 'RAID MIRROR' system .. Any single hard drive system is simply data loss waiting to happen .. With a dual drive RAID MIRROR when the first drive drive fails (or you fill it up) you can simply copy the data to a pair of whatever is the then current lowest price per Gb drive - today I would go for at least a pair of 1.5Tb drives ... The simplest approach is to add an external RAID enclosure box to one of your PC's and 'share' this across the network (the enclosure should be no more than £50 (eg link), a pair of 2Tb drives no more than £100 each (in RAID MIRROR, each drive holds a complete copy of your data, so 2 x 2Tb drives means you have 2Tb of usable MIRROR storage == if you think your data is worth less than £100, by all means purchase a single drive (or configure them as 2x2Tb = 4Tb of non-mirror space)) An alternative is a RAID NAS box that will plug into your network ... a basic one will be at least £100 (plus drives) .. be warned, however, a LOT of NAS boxes CLAIM to support RAID but when you check the actual spec's you find they have room for ONLY a single drive! == they expect you buy a second (plug-in USB or eSATA) drive in order to run any sort of RAID .. eSATA is OK (it just costs you an extra box) BUT hanging a USB expansion drive off a NAS box in order to get RAID will be VERY SLOW compared to having 2 drives inside the box, since they are using SOFTWARE to perform the RAID functions across USB! WARNING!

NEVER EVER buy some fancy 'backup' software 'solution' 1) The software will be 'copy protected' - when your PC 'breaks', the software becomes inaccessible and you can wave goodbye to your data where-ever it may be (it will have been recorded in some fancy 'compressed' file format that Windows does not understand and some crucial information (such as the directory) will have been left on the now broken PC) 2) When you buy a new PC with a new Operating System, you have the choice of paying through the nose to 'upgrade' the back-up software (or not backing up your new PC) .. 3) Eventually the back-up software vendors will get taken over, go out of business or otherwise drop 'your' product ..

I think you should go for Se agate 500gb External Hard Drive . Had got it few months back and found that this one is an excellent piece of hardware . Good storage capacity.

This one is very silent and doesn't makes a lot of noise . The transfer speed is also good ,and moreover it is very small and easily fits in one's pocket ,making it easily portable.

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