FAO: Computer Geeks

Kitty

Need a external hard drive, found this:

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.212-1835.aspx

Yay or nay? Will I find better for the same price?

cat_with_no_tail

I'm not a fan of computer jokes. Not 1 bit.

VWsurfbum

You had to Byte

Raymondavalon

Enough of the spin already guys...

Kitty, more of a Hub question. Hard disks are still a little expensive right now due to the well publicised floods in Thailand that flooded the bulk of the hard disk manufacturers' production lines

That is not a bad price to be honest, but id you're not in a hurry wait a little, prices will come down further.
I bought a 1TB 2.5" WD portable HDD for £57 at Tesco in March last year

If you're in a hurry to buy one that little Hitachi isn't too bad at the price

Kitty

Yeah need it soonish, got too much music

Raymondavalon

Kitty wrote:

Yeah need it soonish, got too much music

Then grab it, the price isn't too bad at all.. plus it's a good, reputable and branded manufacturer

projectsome

Kitty wrote:

Yeah need it soonish, got too much music

if you have a decent internet connection, try a cloud server backup or something. I have 500gb for £30 a year.

Most of them can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection so one less thing to carry around.

Still working mine out though, I think it deletes stuff from my cloud when I delete it from my HDD??

edit: that's pretty cheap actually, buy it. if anything the warranty will cover it I think?

nicklouse

Raymondavalon wrote:

Kitty, more of a Hub question.

Many years ago Kitty was told not to leave the Sandbox. Now it is the Crudcatcher she still does not wander out much.

Kitty

Yeah, old habits.

Gazlar

Have you got an old computer knocking about the house kitty? I've got a couple of portable drives that are just the hard drive our of an old computer in a hard drive case off ebay. I did it to keep all my old files, but you could write it then and stick stuff on it

redvee

I've just looked on Aria and they can't match that price.

Kitty

Gazlar wrote:

Have you got an old computer knocking about the house kitty? I've got a couple of portable drives that are just the hard drive our of an old computer in a hard drive case off ebay. I did it to keep all my old files, but you could write it then and stick stuff on it

Nope, whyamihere has my old computer, had this one for ages. I love it, its my baby.

Ordered that one anyway. :-)

Anonymous

500GB, not enough for my porn.

Went with a NAS and 4TB all RAID. 4 1TB super speedy Spinpoint discs. Nerd-tastic.

(actually filling with my music collection and bunch of TV downloads amongst general junk).

Briggo

redvee wrote:

I've just looked on Aria and they can't match that price.

Eeeww Aria, worst customer service evah.

redvee

Briggo wrote:

Eeeww Aria, worst customer service evah.

I've only used them once or twice and never had to call on their customer services.

redvee

Not sure if this is too late or expensive but would 2TB be enough storage for £90?

http://www.dabs.com/products/buffalo-2t ... ntent=i800

Fully-sprung

projectsome wrote:

Kitty wrote:

Yeah need it soonish, got too much music

if you have a decent internet connection, try a cloud server backup or something. I have 500gb for £30 a year.

Most of them can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection so one less thing to carry around.

Still working mine out though, I think it deletes stuff from my cloud when I delete it from my HDD??

edit: I've finally realised that I am a dumbass and need to buy glasses.

Dumbass, why would you want 500gb for £30 a year when you could have 500gb for ONE payment of £40? That's not right!