After trying to install a game on my computer and finding I didn't have enough hard drive space I knew it was about time I upgraded my computer. The 30GB hard drive I have is pretty poor and I considered upgrading my computers internal memory. My brother-in-law knows a lot about computers so I asked his advice, he told me about external hard drives and said it would be a good avenue for me to explore as I would probably want to think about upgrading my entire computer soon anyway and this way all my games and documents could be stored externally and easily accessed on a new computer when I got one. I looked online and found that Maplin were having a sale on ...  Read the complete review

So as most people might do i went through a phase of wanting to be a dj, so i started building my music collection ripping every CD in the house to my laptop. Very quickly and with the help of photos and various other documents my little 250G hard drive became very full to the point windows was so sluggish it would take almost 15 minutes just to load up programs like itunes, not handy. I had no idea what i could do with all this data, i did some research and heard about external hard drives so i thought oh that's handy. I went up to Comet to see what they had on offer and i noticed a reduced Seagate Expansion Drive 1TB!! at £49.99 i snapped it up. I rushed ...  Read the complete review

I picked up one of these to act as an external backup drive for my system, and I've been very pleased with it. The capacity is enough to back up everything I am working on, including full-length home made DVDs e.g. weddings and family events, and my working files for these. The drive supports USB 3.0, but will work with slower speeds. My computer supports USB 2.0, but the drive transitions smoothly to this. It swaps smoothly from computer to computer, making it a good way to transfer large files if your network is slow or down. It has also been ideal to transfer the entire contents of a harddrive to a new machine as a clone, after a PC died ...  Read the complete review

This has become to me like the black box recorder has become to the areo industry. I purchased this item as my PC began to run quite sluggishly as I had nearly filled the hard drive, The size of this external hard drive being 1TB meant that I could fit around 320,000 high resolution digital photos which is more than I think I'll take in a life time but it's also fantastic for backing up all my documents, videos and also my music. I recently had a computer that crashed completely and had I not backed up all my important documents and photo's on this little portable hard drive, they would be gone forever. Thankfully I had a neat filing system on my drive and I ...  Read the complete review

Up until purchasing this 1TB expansion drive, I had been using a 320gb Maxtor external hard drive. Just from opening the box you can tell that this is a quality bit of kit. Containing the drive itself and one usb 3.0 wire, it is eaxtremely easy to set up, and it will self install as soon as it is connected to your computer or laptop. Simply copy/cut and pasting, or even dragging and dropping files, backing up of your data is quick and simple. Although you can occasionaly hear it working away, it is very quiet considering how fast it processes information. Actual true storage is nearer 930bg rather than the stated 1TB, however this is still plenty of room ...  Read the complete review