I bought one of these to store all of my work on - i am currently writing up my PhD thesis and need all of the past 3 years work on a convenient storage device so that I can take it between work and home easily. This device was great value for money (£80 when I purchased it). It is designed very well - looks nice on my desk not like some of the other uglier external hard drives. It is also cross-compatible with my Mac that I use at work and my PC at home. You are able to put password protection on to the device too - which is very useful in my case. The read and write speeds for the device are also very quick. The device also comes with SmartWare back-up tool loaded on ..  Read the complete review

I recently bought one of these large HDs to archive all of my downloaded stuff and have it sit by the telly, wired into my portable DVD (which has a USB in port) and thenconsign my huge, wobbly piles of CDrs and DVDrs to the attic. I looked at various options, and then plumped for this one, as it seems to have the best price/perfomance/capacity ratio. It actually does work very well, but I have had something of a frustrating week, and I will outline why, below - hopefully it will prevent people from falling into the same trap that I did! In coming to choose this HD I read a LOT of reviews, both here and on Amazon etc, and the consensus ...  Read the complete review