Hard Drives > Seagate Hard Drives > From 200 GB to 300 GB > up to 60 GBP

Advantages: 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM, fairly quiet, Very fast
Disadvantages: none

...be lost. ( I trust Seagate I never had a failure of their drive out of about 10 i had so far ) Average Read is 165 MB/s Average Write is 136 MB/s I am using my PC to edit movies and i am working on many GB of data on each project. Having drives in Raid 0 mode increased a lot speed of many operations. I have a standard Midi Case and i must say that i can't hear the drives, my PC is very quiet all fans are running on 5V ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, fast, great design, easy to use, 250GB
Disadvantages: NONE

...would recommend this drive to anyone who needs and external hard disk with a high capacity. Even if you need more than 250g, it's worth buying one from the Seagate. If in the future I need a disk with a higher capacity I will get a FreeAgent from Seagate. ... Read review

Advantages: HDD appears well protected in its casing
Disadvantages: psu failed within two hours -poor design?

...sweetspot at the moment. Maxtor are one of several companies that offer an out-of-the-box solution that requires no construction. or technical knowledge. The Maxtor HDD comes in a rubber housing complete with a psu, manual, usb cable, and software preloaded onto the disc. Installation into both Vista and XP was simply plug-and-play, and the hdd contains some basic backup software. Once the software is installed, then backups can be pre-set to ...
...at predefined times, or at the request of the user. The speed of transfer is limited in this case due to the USB connection, but good enough for occasional backups. Major bad point:- The supplied psu has a slide off adaptor which adapts the 240V power connection to UK 3pin or Euro 2pin. The psu failed within a couple of hours, with evidence of arcing on one of the contacts where the slide off adaptor clips to the main unit, despite the connector ... Read review

Advantages: Fast with large files, quiet fast with small files, quiet, doesn't struggle with large files.
Disadvantages: May need defragging alot.

I have this drive pre installed in my computer and the first thing i realised was that it was extremely FAST; i had tested the drive on a hard drive benchmarking program called 'HDTach'. This is as on my HP'm7635', using this drive i got a burst speed of 210 MB/s and a average read rate of 70MB/s; both are extremely fast. I also realised that this drive was extremely quiet; being installed in my media cennter PC it wasn't exactly a suprise though. ...
...the context of everyday computng this hard drive is very fast, windows loads up very quickly. You can force large files down the hard drive and it wont struggle; though i still recommend that you defragmentate the drive on a regular basis for optimal speed. To expand on my statement of what fast is, i mean to say that the drive is able to handle copying of large files such as movies very quickly. The drive is also fast in seeking files from a random ... Read review

Advantages: 120GB, Good price, Extremely easy to use.
Disadvantages: Takes up 2 USB slots.

...drive also comes with some Maxtor software designed to ease back-up and synching of data. For this purpose I would recommend just downloading Microsoft's SynchToy which is available as a free download and in my opinion is more powerful and easier to use than the software that comes with the drive. Another useful feature of the included software is the ability to encrypt and password-protect the data on the drive. I would definitely recommend this ... Read review