Portable Harddrive

johnnyrotten · 12-11-2006 4:36pm #1

I was looking at THIS today. Is it any good?
Is it good value?
Works out at about €115 delivered

Thanks

white_falcon · 12-11-2006 4:49pm

yea good hard drive - 7200 rpm is normal speed for hard drives. samsung are gud aswell.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=318905

this one is far better value tho

johnnyrotten · 12-11-2006 5:01pm

I've never used Komplett. Are they reliable?

white_falcon · 12-11-2006 5:06pm

far far more reliable than ebay - good customer support and replace anything if its faulty. seriously tho - id go for that one over the one on ebay

johnnyrotten · 12-11-2006 5:09pm

white_falcon wrote:

far far more reliable than ebay - good customer support and replace anything if its faulty. seriously tho - id go for that one over the one on ebay

Cheers man;)

Orion · 12-11-2006 5:13pm

Komplett are reliable. I've used them many times.

white_falcon: ebay is just a sales forum. Saying that ebay is not reliable is not quite true. It'd be more accurate to say that there may be sellers who use ebay that aren't reliable. Similar to adverts.ie. But they have a very good rating system - and this seller in particular has 21,000 positive ratings. I'd say he'd be reliable enough. A plus for the ebay seller is that they'll replace it in the first year if it fails and then 2 more years RTM warranty. Komplett only offer RTM warranties after the initial 30-day cooling off period.

In this particular case I'd go with the ebay one if all other things were equal. It's cheaper and the warranty is better. On the other hand it's a Maxtor. I'd choose WD over Maxtor anyday.

white_falcon · 12-11-2006 5:14pm

no worries - i have the 500 gig version of it and its brilliant - looks nice, works fast and highly reliable

johnnyrotten · 13-11-2006 12:04am

Just saw an ad in a flyer for PCWORLD

320 GB Seagate portable Harddrive
7200 rpm
Whisper quiet operation
8mb buffer

€129.99 reduced from €199.99

Good Value?

johnnyrotten · 13-11-2006 9:01am

Was going to buy this this morning , any
input lads?

johnnyrotten · 13-11-2006 9:24am

Was going to buy this , the Seagate one in PCworld, this morning , any
input lads?
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Ruu_Old · 13-11-2006 10:48am

Decent price. If you miss out on it, Komplett have one similar to the one posted, the Western Digital My Book 320gb for €142 (out of stock at the mo), firewire/usb model is €164.

johnnyrotten · 13-11-2006 12:55pm

Ok lads, bought the 320GB in Pcworld for €129.99.
Its a neat little beast.
Time to free up some drive space on laptop and desktop
Good Value I say

Umiq88 · 13-11-2006 5:08pm

Cheapest way i could find for a portable hard drive is buying a laptop hardrive and then get an enclosure separate ebay's the best place for them

Owen · 13-11-2006 5:14pm

I got a 500GB SATA Seagate 3.5 inch drive, and a USB enclosure, total of around 150 Euro for the lot :-)

mr_disc · 13-11-2006 10:56pm

ned78 wrote:

I got a 500GB SATA Seagate 3.5 inch drive, and a USB enclosure, total of around 150 Euro for the lot :-)

Where did u get this ? ? !

Owen · 13-11-2006 11:02pm

Well, the enclosure was from Elara, and the disk itself from a mate in the trade for a hundred yoyos. Still waiting for the enclosure though :-)

mr_disc · 13-11-2006 11:09pm

ned78 wrote:

Well, the enclosure was from Elara, and the disk itself from a mate in the trade for a hundred yoyos. Still waiting for the enclosure though :-)

u jammy bast***

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Creamy Goodness · 13-11-2006 11:14pm

psittacosis wrote:

Cheapest way i could find for a portable hard drive is buying a laptop hardrive and then get an enclosure separate ebay's the best place for them

it ain't the cheapest but it's the most portable-ist

Portable Harddrive

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