[AshUK]

I'm interested in buying G-Technology's G-Drive seen here but I cannot find anywhere to get it in the UK, Their list of international resellers doesn't list any for the G-Drive only the G-Raid.
Does anyone know where to get a G-Drive in the UK?
Also can you upgrade external hard drives with bigger drives or not?

Hope someone can help,
Ash

[drive-thru]

Have you tried looking at LaCie drives? Apple sells them through their UK online store and the D2 models also are a fan-less design with multiple interfaces (FW400/800 & USB2) and go up to 1000GB capacity depending on the model you buy.
I haven't looked at the G-Drive specs much, so I might be missing a key feature that they hold over LaCie.

[AshUK]

did you actually look at that link I provided, a comparison between LaCie drives and they seem inferior.
Also if I wanted a LaCie drive I would be getting one

[drive-thru]

no, I said I didn't look at the page much.
Now that I have, I've seen that their Product Comparison chart at the bottom of the page is pretty biased. Look at this page where it clearly states that the D2 Extreme has a fan-less design and 7200rpm 8MB cache HDD. If you need 500GB then you can get the D2 Big Disk, but I think you lose out on the fan-less design (not sure about that).

I wasn't trying to say that the G-Drive was crap and the D2 was better, but simply that a D2 may be a better storage solution than a non-existent G-Drive. In other words, if you can't find the G-Drive in the UK you might want to look at the D2...maybe.

Edit: you can usually upgrade an external by putting in a larger HDD, assuming you can open up the enclosure, although I'm not sure about the larger drives. I've only done this with small drives (<80GB) so I'm not sure if the larger enclosures may be limited in their capacity by the chipset or some other hardware. It's best to check with the manufacturer.