1 TB External Hard Disk

aqua2027

Got one 1 TB External Hard disk, Verbatim from Currys in London for 69 Pound.

majiktripp

Handy for people who travel to London frequently but not really a Bargain Alert as such for the average joe.

RobertFoster

I imagine it'd be the same price in all UK Currys, so anyone heading north might benefit.

hinduhamster

Reads on Nassau street in Dublin are advertising a 1TB hardrive for €99.

Komplett seem to have some good prices for TB hard drives. Internal and external ranging from €69 to €120 for 1.5 TB drives.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/kc.aspx?bn=10088

Might be worth a gander.

Ravenholm

Easons are selling a Seagate 1 Tb Drive for €89 and a 500Gb drive for €59

(bought mine in O'Connell Street branch)

GenghisCon

Maplin are offering a 1.5TB HD for €150. It is maxtor, a brand of which I have heard mixed reviews. Still at 10Gb/€...

TPD

Wouldn't trust a Maxtor, Genghis. 10Gb/€ seems good till it breaks :P

Prenderb

Peats selling a 1TB iomega HDD for 80 euros.

NORTH1

I got one of those from pete's, working great for me.

Kintarō Hattori

500GB - €49.95
1TB - €79.95

They are the Iomega Prestige drives:
http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?type=product&id=25122

gerryf

Atom.ie have a Buffalo DriveStation TurboUSB 1.5TB Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm USB 2.0 (External) for €138

http://www.atom.ie/index.php?p=catalog&parent=46&pg=1

hinduhamster

I find Maplin.... very....very.... pricey for what you are getting! Though I guess it depends on what you need it for. 1.5TB for €100-€140 is pretty good!

Depending on the rush.... Tom's hardware are talking about usb 3.0 coming out end of the year

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/usb-superspeed-esata-firewire,news-31440.html

Worth waiting?

ibuprofen

Komplett have 1 TB for € 79 which is about £68. Bit easier to get to too...

http://www.komplett.ie/k/k.aspx

smithy1981

Just about to order one now. Price aside, anyone know which is better?

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=341190

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=439032

this one looks a good price too

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=479576&utm_source=komplett.ie&utm_medium=jul09w29fb03_seagate

onemanband

CDiscount in Dundalk have a tosh 1TB for 69.99 euro. Only open at the weekend until their site goes live. Not very convienent for the Dubs but at least better than London and the North!!

Kazu

Seagate Maxtor Basics Desktop 1.5TB


crapy build mine broken after 2 months

builder22

gerryf wrote: »

Atom.ie have a Buffalo DriveStation TurboUSB 1.5TB Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm USB 2.0 (External) for €138

http://www.atom.ie/index.php?p=catalog&parent=46&pg=1

Does anyone else find the atom website really crappy - subcatagories exist but when you click on them it tells you nothing is available. Looks kinda pricey too.

OpenYourEyes

Anyone got any experience with Buffallo hard drives?

grimm2005

anyone know how good the iomega prestige from peats is? very tempted to get one but if its got a bad reputation i'll leave it. i've had a 320gb WD mybook for a few years and its never given me problems

Basq

I picked up a external Seagate 1TB HDD for €74.25 from Littlewoods.

Splendid

basquille wrote: »

I picked up a external Seagate 1TB HDD for €74.25 from Littlewoods.

Was that using the 25% voucher?

Basq

Splendid wrote: »

Was that using the 25% voucher?

Yep.. it's quoted at €99 on the website.

They have the 500GB quoted at the same price.. not to mention..

Splendid

I was looking at that the other day. Was wondering what the hell was going on. All of the disks say that they don't need external power, so that can't be the explanation.

Ishmael

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Anyone got any experience with Buffallo hard drives?

I've had an external one for about 2 years now, never had any trouble with it. The HDD inside was a Maxtor though.

DannyBuoy

grimm2005 wrote: »

anyone know how good the iomega prestige from peats is? very tempted to get one but if its got a bad reputation i'll leave it. i've had a 320gb WD mybook for a few years and its never given me problems

I have one for about 3 or 4 months, no problems so far, have about 700GB off stuff on it. Pretty good value imo, currently there for E80.

brophs

basquille wrote: »

Yep.. it's quoted at €99 on the website.

They have the 500GB quoted at the same price.. not to mention..

I guess one's mains powered, one usb. Looks like one is a passport style drive(the more expensive one).

Saruman

Not much of a bargain since it is in London.

Take a look at the peats website on the front page. €79.95
And peats is a brick and mortar shop

junglecliff

which peats stores stock these..?
will it work ok with a mac..?

pipkato

Peats in Rathmines had these Iomega 1TB drives at €79. Should work fine with your Mac if it's formatted appropriately.

Kintarō Hattori

junglecliff wrote: »

which peats stores stock these..?
will it work ok with a mac..?

All the shops have them.

Esse85

Any updates on these?

dowtchaboy

1TB drive at ALDI on next Thursday (23rd) at €99.99. Note it has eSATA.

Give your computing capacity a mighty extra boost.

1000 GB (1TB)
3.5" eSATA connector
USB connector
16 MB cache
System requirements: Windows Vista/XP

I don't see any reason why it should not work with a Mac too (you might have to reformat it if it comes with NTFS I suppose).
It doesn't say but I presume it comes with (and needs) a mains power brick.

Esse85

What does eSATA mean?

MarkR

On the medion website it seems to have a 32 mb cache.

Product Description This external hard drive achieves the same performace as an internal hard drive with the new, external eSATA interface. The HDDrive 2 Go Ultra Speed can also be operated via the USB port. The perfect data storage solution for desktop and notebook computers.

No more tangled cables! If you own a recent Medion PC with a specially designed top hard drive bay, you can simply use the HDDrive 2 Go without any cables or external power adapter. If you have a non-Medion PC or a notebook computer you can use the supplied USB cable and external power adapter.
Features

• 1TB (1000GB) Drive Capacity
• 32MB Cache
• eSATA interface
  • Transfer rate max. 1200 MBit/sec
• USB 2.0 interface
  • Transfer rate max. 480 MBit/sec

In The Box

• 3.5" Hard Disk Drive
• AC Adapter
• USB Cable
• Desktop Stand
• User Manual
• Warranty Card

System Requirements

• Windows Vista®/XP
• 1 Free USB or eSATA interface

Warranty

• 12 months

dowtchaboy

from WiseGeek:

External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or eSATA is an external interface for SATA technologies. It competes with FireWire 400 and universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 to provide fast data transfer speeds for external storage devices.

SATA replaced ATA legacy technology as the next generation internal bus interface for hard drives. The SATA interface is more streamlined than ATA and provides serial architecture for greater speed than the older parallel technology. SATA cables are narrow and can be up to three feet (1 meter) in length, whereas parallel cables are much wider and limited to a length of 18 inches (45.7 cm). With eSATA, the speed of SATA expands to encompass exterior storage solutions.

While eSATA reaches transfer rates triple those of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, it does have one drawback. eSATA requires its own power connector, unlike the aforementioned interfaces. However, it is an excellent choice for external disk storage. Unlike USB and FireWire interfaces, eSATA does not have to translate data between the interface and the computer. This enhances data transfer speeds, while saving computer processor resources and eliminating the need for an extra off-load chip.

For desktop motherboards that don’t have an eSATA connector, a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) card can be purchased and installed in an available PCI slot that will provide an eSATA interface. Notebooks can use an external eSATA device made for the PCMCIA, PC Card or ExpressCard slot, depending on the laptop model. eSATA enables use of fast SATA drives for external disk arrays, not only expanding valuable storage real estate, but also enabling truly fast portable storage. eSATA's hot-swappable feature makes taking disks from work to home, or from one computer to another, a snap. Administrators, IT techs, advertising and marketing executives, and even gamers will find this beneficial.

SATA has differing standards, with older hardware supporting the original standard exclusively. With each new SATA iteration, speed increases. Original SATA, or SATA/150, has a data transfer speed of 150 megabytes per second (MB/s). SATA II or SATA/3Gbs doubled the speed to 300 MB/s or about 3 GB/s. This is also sometimes referred to as SATA/300. Some sources report SATA/600 will be available by 2007.

When purchasing an eSATA controller or bus card, be sure it supports the SATA standard required by your SATA hard drive(s). Hardware that supports newer standards is usually backwards compatible with older devices, but the reverse does not hold. An eSATA controller made for SATA/150, for example, will not be able to support the faster transfer speeds of a SATA/300 hard drive.

Recent model Desktops and Laptops have an external SATA connector for which this would be excellent. If ya don't, don't worry about it - USB2.0 is way fast enough for storing and playing music and movies.