External hard drives

[SamJones]

I need a reliable external hard drive to back up some stuff.
Does anyone have any that are particularly recommended? I don't need more than 500G, and haven't got a fortune to spend.

I have been looking at this Does that seem like a good price?

I've got a WD Elements external hard drive which I bought from Amazon a few years ago and it works wonders, didn't cost very much and is about 200GB I think.

The one you have linked to looks like it will do the job.

we have one of these qnap ones.
it looks like this one anyway, tho i was unaware it cost that much
but dp knows his stuff and that's the one he chose

Some QNAP models can do:
* File Server
* FTP Server
* Backup Server
* Encrypted Remote Replication
* Web Server
* MySQL Server
* Printer Server
* UPnP Media Server
* Image Files Backup
* Download Station
* iTunes Server
* Surveillance Station

So maybe the thinking was long term - it's a cleverer device than the Netgear 50 quid unit which can share 2TB of storage but won't do the other things.

As for OP query - yes, reasonable price. May want to check this one too, similar (lower) price, but with 'portable' in name, implies a little more rugged, in case you ever need to take it away from home.