External hard drive for Dell Laptop

[annavc]

The memory on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop is almost all used up and I can't free anymore as I need everything that is on there so I want to get an external hard drive to store stuff on but I'm not sure what the best one to get is. I would appreciate any recommendations anyone has on what make, size etc would be good to buy.
TIA.

[fo3nix]

Maxtor, LaCie, Seagate, Western Digital, etc., are all good brands.

Here's one:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/62833

Basically make sure it has a USB2 connection. If you have a Mac at all, get one with Firewire too (you could do this on a windows PC too if you wanted, but it's especially important for a mac).

So the only other choice is how much space you want -- the above is 250GB. This just depends what you want to do with it; the more the better, obviously, but these size drives are at a good price point right now.

[annavc]

Thanks fo3nix - that's really helpful. I was thinking of about 250GB and that one you posted is no where near as expensive as I thought it would be which is great.
Thanks for your help.