Have a 1 TB WD External hard drive which has been faultless for several years now (about 4 or 5). Isn't produced anymore, but the follow up 2 TB model is just about in your price range.

Picked up a 5 TB Toshiba Canvio about two months back which is fine - so far. Picked Toshiba that time as I'd got one reduced a good bit, and the 2 TB version of that series is in your budget.

Western Digital, Segate and Toshiba all seem about equal on failure rates, give or take, going by Backblaze's reports.

The Toshiba takes a bit longer to wake up from slumber under Linux (can't comment on other OS performance). Not too bothersome, really, as it is a backup drive and nothing else in my case. Works fine when it is awake.

Hitachi seem to have the lowest failure rate - but you do pay extra for them. That said by and large failure rates of all of them are fairly low and Backblaze server setup really taxes all of their hard-drives quite heavily; so it ought to be less of a problem with consumer level use, even. But that said, of course, data redundancy and backing up on more than one drive decreases chance of critical data loss.

I back up important stuff across several hard drives now [also still have a really old 250 gb in a custom enclosure sitting on the desk].

I told you it's not like that on Amazon.fr, and you go show me that some other place it's more expensive. How's that proof? Nobody is forcing you to pick the expensive store. Just order the one below.

Samsung M3 Portable USB 3 1To 55,15€.

You probably know your situation best, but I think if the choices are spending money on Internet connection or a hard drive, Internet connection is the better option. Depending on how much you pay for your connection, you can pay maybe six months connection fees for the price of a single hard drive.
And if you are looking for a job, then you really should have the Internet connection anyway.
Just something to think about. I work these days only few hours part-time, so I kind of know how it feels not being able to afford everything you want to get. But for me, Internet would be the last thing to lose.

As for the hard drive suggestion, I have been very satisfied with Western Digital external hard drives. They are relatively cheap, but work well.

Sorry, haven't saw your amazon.fr link, my bad

I'm with BT, it costs me around £50 s month, I'm out of contract, so will look elsewhere, my neighbour phil, whos never home, gave me his wifi passkey to use. [bless him] I did promise to not download any porn ^^ he pays £16 a month with an ISP called Fuel, the speed is double both upload and download than the BT shite I have/had [tested on a broadband speed website]

Thanks for all the replies.

All the best