400Gb External HD 148 euro...

TerrorFirmer

Seems like a good deal. Maplins. Maxtor is the brand name.

Placebo

seen that in town on sat, looks good alright

Ruu_Old

Good find.

Basq

HavoK wrote:

Maxtor is the brand name.

Hope their external hard drives are more durable than their internal!

Have had to replace 2 internal hard-drives in the last few months (on girlfriend's and brother's computers) - both were Maxtor.

ixoy

Flatmate got an external Maxtor HD a few months ago. We both put some data on it, then it crackled, fizzled, and died. All our data was lost. Not in my recommended list.

Basq

basquille wrote:

Hope their external hard drives are more durable than their internal!

ixoy wrote:

Flatmate got an external Maxtor HD a few months ago. We both put some data on it, then it crackled, fizzled, and died. All our data was lost. Not in my recommended list.

Guess that answered my query so!

markyboy

Maxtor suck big time! Lost all my data on more than one occasion. I think Dell stopped using them.

peckerhead

I prefer this. Have one already, may get another...

Blowfish

It must be the season for hdd deals.

500gb for €155 here, cheapest shipping is €12.

peckerhead

Was gonna buy two of those in work, but think I'll recommend three of the Aldi ones instead. Roughly the same money and total capacity ('tho the Medion drives are a lot slimmer), easier return and a three-year warranty instead of 12-month-and-post-it-back-to-the-Netherlands job.

Also, I'd rather backup data spread across a few smaller drives than one big one, in case of a worst-case total data loss. :eek:

DS

In defense of Maxtor I've had one ticking away for 6 years without any trouble.

Kintarō Hattori

Seagate 400GB for €149.

Saruman

DS wrote:

In defense of Maxtor I've had one ticking away for 6 years without any trouble.

Thats impressive... that must have been a manufacturing flaw

Seriously, i rarely replace a non maxtor hard drive and i have replaced hundreds in my time.

TerrorFirmer

I don't use them much but from what I have used I don't really have any problem with Maxtor....although....I've never had any problems with Q-Tec either....so maybe I'm just lucky

Bard

Harvey Norman are doing 500GB ioMega drives for €195.

Fnz

Search the internet and you'll find that different brands get slated/praised by different places.

I think Western Digital seemed to have the worst reputation for faulty drives on a number of sites I was looking at before buying my latest hard drive.

Maxtor were acquired by Seagate last year anyway.

Makaveli

DS wrote:

In defense of Maxtor I've had one ticking away for 6 years without any trouble.

As do I. Although, every subsequent drive I've bought has been from different manufacturers (mainly WD).

joe25

For Anyone who misses out on aldi harddrive.

MAXTOR 320GB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
http://www.pcworld.ie/products.aspx?range_rid=44&image=Hard_Drives

Only 15Euro more and you don't have to cue up in the cold.