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[LUG] External Hard Drives - any to avoid?

 

Looking to get a disk to store backups of various things on, not least
whilst I finally get around to a long overdue reinstall of my desktop box.

I'm thinking the local Tesco's last few Maxtor 500GB hard drives look
good value, and barely more than one would pay retail for a comparable
SATA drive.

Call me a skeptic but anyone seeing issues with the very high density
disks available? Anyone recommend for or against any devices. I mean the
important data I can also burn to CD, that which isn't already on two
computers, both with mirroring.....

Otherwise it looks like yet another trip to Tesco's.






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