Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500GB USB2.0/Firewire 800

Soarer

Weekly offer from komplett for €222 delivered.

500gb HDD

Checked dabs.ie there, and they have the Premium Edition (one step below the pro) at €217 + shipping.

Cabaal

There lovely pieces of kit to be honest, highly recommended to anyone that needs alot of storage.

Have one of the older models (USB2 only) on 24/7 since this time last year and no problems what so ever

Soarer

Is that yourself that gave the review on komplett?

Cabaal

Soarer wrote:

Is that yourself that gave the review on komplett?

nope, though I can see why you'd think that

I don't actually have the above model, I have this one http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=318909
and just ordered another one today

Soarer

Cool.
I'll probably go for the new one. I'm hoping to get my hands on a High Def Camcorder in the near future, so I'll need the space for storage!:D
Probably won't last pissing time though!:rolleyes:

SoBe

just a heads up fo ya,spotted dabs have a 500 gig iomega external drive for €167.64

link: http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4c06


edit: just saw the same drive western digital pro drive delivered from dabs works out at €205.27.
http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=44D1

Ruu_Old

Yep, agreed with Cabaal. I have 2x250GB models and they work great. +1

jimbobwalton

That iomega external hard drive can be got direct form iomega for 165 inc Free delivery
See link

http://www.iomega-europe.com/section?SID=e92c7a47824604d02512bdc11949f57e176:4740&secid=39292

jimbobwalton

Ignore that post...just saw that price is ex VAT...
anyone know the best value 500mb external hard drive?

amby666

jimbobwalton wrote:

That iomega external hard drive can be got direct form iomega for 165 inc Free delivery
See link

http://www.iomega-europe.com/section?SID=e92c7a47824604d02512bdc11949f57e176:4740&secid=39292

That's excluding vat. It's €198 delivered.

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pauly3

Harvey Norman (Naas) has stacks of 500GB external iomega drives for 179 euro. Internally they are Seagate 7200.10 IDE drives with 8MB cache. The Seagate 5-yr warranty does not apply to external drives, so it might be wiser to get a 500GB on Komplett for 149 euro and a case for about 35 euro. That way if you drop it in the next 5 years maybe it is still covered

Soarer

SoBe wrote:

edit: just saw the same drive western digital pro drive delivered from dabs works out at €205.27.
http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=44D1

Bastards!
Making a fool out of me!;)

Don't remember seeing that when I checked yesterday morning. Considering the fact its out of stock, I'm gonna say they saw komplett's offer, and decided to get a few in and undercut them.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!:p

cpk

It's a pity if these are already sold out. I got a 320GB version a year ago. Not a single complaint. Have it running all the time and it's never let me down. That and it looks good.

Sad Professor

Yeah the WD Mybooks are great little drives, I got a 250GB Firewire one before Christmas and it's worked perfectly. I'll probably pick up another in a few months.

oneweb

Does anyone know if the drives within the My Books are IDE or SATA?

Tar.Aldarion

My 320gb version is great. Thumbs up from me.

Trevord

Soarer wrote:

Weekly offer from komplett for €222 delivered.

500gb HDD

Checked dabs.ie there, and they have the Premium Edition (one step below the pro) at €217 + shipping.

Work ordered one for me last week and it was €202 ex vat + delivery from komplett, so the €222 incl vat offer is a genuine sale price alright.

Shiminay

If anyone's interested, I have an IOmega 320 gig I got around November and I'm pretty happy with it, might get a 500 jiggle for the craic

Ruu_Old

Why stop at 500 jiggies? Is where its at yo!:eek:

Shiminay

Shame that 1TB device doesn't have a network card

popey21

Can firewire hdds connect to a Dvd Recorder/Divx player through the Firewire/IEEE 1394 port and be accessed to playback divx,like usb hdds

Soarer

Just thought I'd re-ignite this thread, as this week they have the My Book Pro on offer for €211.95 delivered!:eek:

Stupid another week before I get paid!:rolleyes:

GG66

Western Digital 500GB is 199.95 now

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=322613

Soarer

GG66 wrote:

Western Digital 500GB is 199.95 now

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=322613

Exactly!;)

(See thread directly above yours!:p

GG66

ahhh the important word being "delivered"........ missed that,