Aldi 1Tb External Hard Drive €99.99

Funkyzeit

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/58_8604.htm

No idea in terms of the quality of the make/model but looks like a decent bargain

Bill-e

Looks like a cheese grater...
Was about to shoot it down. However it's got esata connections which is nice a fast. Only thing is I don't have esata on my copmuter

Does it still have USB tho?

Funkyzeit

Bill-e wrote: »

Looks like a cheese grater

Ha ha...:D

Bill-e wrote: »

Does it still have USB tho?

I'm assuming that the 'plug and play' is referring to usb and not e-sata? Prob need to see it before committing.

Onikage

I think you put tea-lights under it and it keeps your food warm.

I'm guessing it uses the proprietary connector Aldi have on top of their PCs for easy HDD docking.

carbsy

Bill-e wrote: »

Looks like a cheese grater...
Was about to shoot it down. However it's got esata connections which is nice a fast. Only thing is I don't have esata on my copmuter

Does it still have USB tho?

I've never seen a notebook with an eSata connection so, yes.

BaconZombie

All the new Dell Latitude E series, I use a E6400 for work and it comes with a eSATA port.

carbsy wrote: »

I've never seen a notebook with an eSata connection so, yes.

I can confirm that you can hot-swap eSATA with not problem the same as you do with USB or Firewire.

Funkyzeit wrote: »

Ha ha...:D




I'm assuming that the 'plug and play' is referring to usb and not e-sata? Prob need to see it before committing.

junglecliff

this work on an imac..?

ChumpStain

I was looking for a second external hard drive on the cheap, thanks OP!

madbadger

Komplett.ie have a 1tb western digital external for 95e, which is usb2 for those who dont have esata...
check it:
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

RoyalMarine

dabs have a 1tb external for €83
http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=5FBD

got 1 there last week and its excellent. the case is very hard and nicely shaped.

Nerin

hmm... i do need more storage...

Murtinho

well, will it work on a normal puter? Whats esata?

The-Game

Yes these do have USB 2.0 ports as well as the esata connections, i picked up the 640GB one last time and has run perfectly for me. No problems to report.

Murtinho

The-Game wrote: »

Yes these do have USB 2.0 ports as well as the esata connections, i picked up the 640GB one last time and has run perfectly for me. No problems to report.

Im going to nip in for one in the afternoon, i let ye know how i get on.

Nerin

Got it this morning. Will let ye know how i get on later

Seaneh

carbsy wrote: »

I've never seen a notebook with an eSata connection so, yes.

My HP pavilion dv5 has an eTATA port.

Bozacke

I picked up one of the Medion 1 Terrabyte Hard Drives at Aldi's today, put a couple movies on it and then connected it via USB to my Silvercrest DVD player, but it can't see any of the movies. The drive is formatted as FAT32, I thought this should work. I have a 8GB USB thumb drive and when connected to my DVD player, it plays movies flawlessly.

Is this a fault of the Hard Drive, the DVD player or the format?

If it is the DVD player, could anyone reccommend one where I could watch movies direct to the Television without copying to my USB thumb drive?

dricco

Most likely that the dvd player can't dectect such a large external HD. Normally anything greater than 100G won't detect.

BaconZombie

The DVD play may have a 500GiB limit on USB drives attached.

Bozacke wrote: »

I picked up one of the Medion 1 Terrabyte Hard Drives at Aldi's today, put a couple movies on it and then connected it via USB to my Silvercrest DVD player, but it can't see any of the movies. The drive is formatted as FAT32, I thought this should work. I have a 8GB USB thumb drive and when connected to my DVD player, it plays movies flawlessly.

Is this a fault of the Hard Drive, the DVD player or the format?

If it is the DVD player, could anyone reccommend one where I could watch movies direct to the Television without copying to my USB thumb drive?

Nonoperational

Imac no problem.

Bozacke

If the DVD player can't detect a USB device so big, would it help if I partitioned the drive into smaller sections, although the complete drive would still be 1 terabyte?

Murtinho

Feckin sold out ill try a few other branches over the w/e but amnt holding my breath.

bugfreebob

Nerin wrote: »

Got it this morning. Will let ye know how i get on later

I would be interested to know whether the drive makes much noise. I want to get an eSata drive for use as a media player - I would like it to be no louder than a CD drive.

Nerin

bugfreebob wrote: »

I would be interested to know whether the drive makes much noise. I want to get an eSata drive for use as a media player - I would like it to be no louder than a CD drive.

Unfortunately my laptop (which in fairness has taken much abuse over the last two years) keep crashing or windows keeps freezing when i'm copying from my 500gig to the tb,so theres nothing on it so fair. Copied 4 gigs before my laptop kept spluttering,and the drive was pretty quiet, quietest one i have i do believe.
More tests once i get things sorted.

Bozacke

As far as the noise, I can answer that, the new Medion 1 Terrabyte drive from Aldi's is so quiet I don't know it's on, as opposed to my older 300G Targa drive, which sounds like a train. The only other problem I've so far noticed with the new Aldi's hard drive is it doesn't have an on\off switch.

The-Game

Bozacke wrote: »

As far as the noise, I can answer that, the new Medion 1 Terrabyte drive from Aldi's is so quiet I don't know it's on, as opposed to my older 300G Targa drive, which sounds like a train. The only other problem I've so far noticed with the new Aldi's hard drive is it doesn't have an on\off switch.

Yeah the one i have is so quiet as well, excellent to run in that sense.
The older ones also have no power switch either, but i don't always leave it on 24/7 anyways, use it for removable storage so just plug it out when not being used.

bugfreebob

Bozacke wrote: »

As far as the noise, I can answer that, the new Medion 1 Terrabyte drive from Aldi's is so quiet I don't know it's on, as opposed to my older 300G Targa drive, which sounds like a train. The only other problem I've so far noticed with the new Aldi's hard drive is it doesn't have an on\off switch.

Thanks for the feedback.

Unfortunately, I tried several ALDI's yesterday, but they all seem to be sold out