Harddrives

[Felle]

Alright, here's the story.
I got a laptop as a sort of birthday present this summer, it's Toshiba Satellite A100-049.



Until a month ago I haven't had any problems with memory and so on, but the harddrive which is pretty small considering it's a laptop, is becoming full and now I'm kind of looking for external harddrives and options to that.

C:\ 55.6GB(7GB free)
E:\ 54.6GB(36GB free) <<-- however being taken up very soon.

Instead of buying a whole new external harddrive of maybe 500GB, I figured I'd use the harddrive of my family's first computer, which still works but is not used.




As far as I know, it should have about 80GB on it and that'll last for a while. So I went to buy a monitor cable so I could connect them.



It didn't work and I spoke to someone I know who's good with computers and he said I needed an "External harddrive enclosure". I didn't have a clue what that was but searched google and found some examples (it showed out I recognized the looks once I'd seen a pic of one), however I have no idea what one to choose and now I'm stuck picking out one.
That's probably why I started this topic, I need you people who have external harddrives and enclosures to help me pick one.

Here's one that got some nice comments and is in my opinion really nice-looking for about £22. There should be a lot of cheaper and more simple ones available though.



Feedback to this is very welcome, especially if you have any advice to give me.
Thanks in advance,
Felle.

[TRaven]

Here's a start:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...srchInDesc=

[cloakster]

Just buy an external hard drive, they are much more safe and very good value.

[Felle]

@ TRaven: thanks, that's a pretty nice site

Just buy an external hard drive, they are much more safe and very good value.

Yeah I was thinking about that aswell, just wanted to use what I actually had (by that I mean the old hdd)..
Same here, I can't decide what external one that's best and advices are welcome on that aswell

[cloakster]

Just go with a trusted brand, so i would suggest the Seagate or Western Digital ones

[Sammo]

Yer, a trusted one.

[DCreations]

well felle i suggest for Seagate S-ATA  , i buyed a hardrive to pretty cheap  SEAGATE 500Gb S-ATA300 16Mb = € 109.00     

[BoogerJay]

Welcome to the 90's, How may I help you?


 

[Ben]

You have like...the same computer as me!. Mines a Fujitsu siemens but ours look identical.

[Mike]

Omg Look! It has a floppy drive!! 

What I do when considering buying something technological is spend hours on the net reading reviews and help guides. I suggest you start off by calling your local Tech shop and tell then what you need. When they show you the disk, get the model number and go do lots of research on it. If you like it, buy it off Ebay for 50% retail.