[Dorset] Any recommendations for a USB external drive?s
I intend to buy a portable hard drive with a USB interface. I've looked at Samsung, Toshiba, and Western Digital. For 1Tb they are all about £60. On Amazon for both the Samsung and Tosh, about 10% of the customer reviews are negative, but the WD has no negative ones. The descriptions of each state, helpfully, that they have a USB3 interface and this is compatible with USB2. But I'm on USB1 !! Do you know if USB3 is always compatible with original USB? I have a WD internal drive and that is fine. Clearly, WD is favourite but do you have any reason to put me off this one, or do you have any other recommendations? Thanks, John -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Any recommendations for a USB external drive?s
On 29/08/13 10:33, JD wrote: I intend to buy a portable hard drive with a USB interface. I've looked at Samsung, Toshiba, and Western Digital. For 1Tb they are all about £60. On Amazon for both the Samsung and Tosh, about 10% of the customer reviews are negative, but the WD has no negative ones. The descriptions of each state, helpfully, that they have a USB3 interface and this is compatible with USB2. But I'm on USB1 !! Do you know if USB3 is always compatible with original USB? I have a WD internal drive and that is fine. Clearly, WD is favourite but do you have any reason to put me off this one, or do you have any other recommendations? Thanks, John I have a Seagate 500GB one that is about two years old now. I bought it from Argos I think for about £43. It works well as a backup unit for me - No problems with either XP or Ubuntu. I am not using any backup programs to write to it, just copying directories of data to it periodically, and treating it just like any other disk drive. (??? Do I mean disc, or disk???) I see 2TB is now £80 (Seagate) and 1TB (Toshiba) is £65. Peter. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Any recommendations for a USB external drive?s
I have several WD USB drives - no problems at all. :) On 29/08/2013 10:33, JD wrote: I intend to buy a portable hard drive with a USB interface. I've looked at Samsung, Toshiba, and Western Digital. For 1Tb they are all about £60. On Amazon for both the Samsung and Tosh, about 10% of the customer reviews are negative, but the WD has no negative ones. The descriptions of each state, helpfully, that they have a USB3 interface and this is compatible with USB2. But I'm on USB1 !! Do you know if USB3 is always compatible with original USB? I have a WD internal drive and that is fine. Clearly, WD is favourite but do you have any reason to put me off this one, or do you have any other recommendations? Thanks, John -- Best regards, Paul Stenning SP Technology Box 170, 89 Commercial Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5RR www.sp-tech.co.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-08-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
