External USB hard disk
 

Im looking for an external hard disk which connects by USB, about 30 Gb storage so not huge.

Anyone know of any good, cheap ones, or has one going spare? All i can find so far is about £80 upwards, any advice appreciated.

Pay a visit to ebuyer you can pick up a 40Gb Maxtor for about £60 or pay a couple of quid more and get a 'Porsche Design Agency' Lacie 80Gb.

I have a Lacie, which replaced an old IBM one and it does what I need it to do.

ebuyer.co.uk

Alternatively try ebay there are usually loads on offer there.

DIY
 

Try www.ukfairs.net in Peterborough this Sunday.
I've bought severl 5.25" external caddies and installed 160GB drives in them. (Carrycopies of my desktop (3x160GB) with me when working away from home to use on my laptop (2x160GB & 18GB internal))

Caddies cost £23 each, and the drive costs depend on the size (£65 for 160GB) so if you only need a smaller drive then I'm sure you can cut the cost considerably

I got a very nice little 30GB one for my laptop, off Ebay, in a caddy, complete with the USB cable, all for £30.

This may not be appropriate to you but you can get adapters to connect internal ide devices to usb - I happened to have a spare internal HDD, ide/usb adapters about £20 from the likes of ebuyer. Its not elegant but it works fine - and it will connect any other ide drive eg dvd writer.

joe2812,

Make sure it is USB 2.0 Drive even if your notebook does not have USB 2.0 Ports. It will be worth it for the future. ;)

Take Care,

Richard