Reads 1TB Ext. Harddrive

68 lost souls · 22-09-2009 2:28pm #1

Hey,

I just bought a Seagate 1TB Harddrive in Reads on Nassau St for 89 euro. The same Hardrive is 120 euro in Argos, they also have other offers on all sorts of harddrives at the moment including multimedia and portable.

jahalpin · 22-09-2009 5:33pm

68 lost souls wrote: »

Hey,

I just bought a Seagate 1TB Harddrive in Reads on Nassau St for 89 euro. The same Hardrive is 120 euro in Argos, they also have other offers on all sorts of harddrives at the moment including multimedia and portable.

You can get this offer in all the other Eason branches as well

Zynks · 22-09-2009 7:43pm

There you go: http://www.eason.ie/items/7636490013904

glomar · 22-09-2009 7:47pm

bought one of those drives 2 weeks ago for 89 euros

I would stay away from them very slow performance

Went to peats which I dont like and got an iomega one thats twice as fast

godtabh · 23-09-2009 4:15am

glomar wrote: »

bought one of those drives 2 weeks ago for 89 euros

I would stay away from them very slow performance

Went to peats which I dont like and got an iomega one thats twice as fast

But at what cost?

feb09 · 23-09-2009 4:22am

komplett have 1tb drives for about the same price
delivered
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

jahalpin · 23-09-2009 6:43am

feb09 wrote: »

komplett have 1tb drives for about the same price
delivered
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

Why would you want to buy from a foreign company on-line when you can get the same item for the same price in an actual shop, which supports jobs in Ireland and supports our economy, especially as things are so bad in this country at the moment.

Buying from a company like Eason, with branches in most large towns and cities throughout Ireland (both in the Republic and the North) would ensure that if something goes wrong with the product that it would be easier to get the problem sorted than if you buy from a company based outside Ireland with an on-line only presence

DannyBuoy · 23-09-2009 7:14am

kearnsr wrote: »

But at what cost?

Same cost, I got the 1TB Iomega for €89.95 in Peats aswell, happy enough so far with it.

Maboza · 23-09-2009 7:32am

DannyBuoy wrote: »

Same cost, I got the 1TB Iomega for €89.95 in Peats aswell, happy enough so far with it.

I think kearnser was implying reliability issues with said drives.

DannyBuoy · 23-09-2009 8:09am

Maboza wrote: »

I think kearnser was implying reliability issues with said drives.

Whoops, took it up wrong so! But in saying that I have 2 of the Iomega units and am happy enough with them. I've only had 1 ext hdd fail on me in a number of years and it was a Seagate! Damn thing cost me a fortune, with sata and firewire connection.
Rant over

off topic, apologies.

brettmirl · 23-09-2009 8:49am

That Seagate 1TB drive is selling for €124.99 in PC World.

godtabh · 23-09-2009 9:21am

Maboza wrote: »

I think kearnser was implying reliability issues with said drives.

No.

There is no point in posting I got a better deal the the op as people cant judge if its a better deal with out knowing how much it costs

68 lost souls · 23-09-2009 5:13pm

After reading other comments I probably should have waited but it seems fine to me. I plan on running file soff my main drive anyway and just storing all my music and old files on the seagate.

Stevie Dakota · 23-09-2009 10:00pm

We've just had a relatively new Iomega drive fail, first HD failure I've experienced in 20 years with computers. Would not buy Iomega again.

feb09 · 23-09-2009 10:39pm

jahalpin wrote: »

Why would you want to buy from a foreign company on-line when you can get the same item for the same price in an actual shop, which supports jobs in Ireland and supports our economy, especially as things are so bad in this country at the moment.

Why would i want to waste my time going all the way into town and waste my money on petrol / parking when i can sit on my arse and have somebody bring one to my door ?

Shiminay · 23-09-2009 11:01pm

Stevie Dakota wrote: »

We've just had a relatively new Iomega drive fail, first HD failure I've experienced in 20 years with computers. Would not buy Iomega again.

I had 2 Iomega's fail on me last year within 6 months of each other (one was 24 months old and the other 15) - I'd never go near them again.

tomass · 24-09-2009 4:38pm

Hi folks,

Just to let you know I bought a 1 TB Hard Drive from Digital Media Direct, Tallaght for €89 just the other day. Made by Hitachi and called "simple drive".

Best of luck

qwertz · 24-09-2009 11:24pm

There probably is a 1.5TB coming to Aldi. USB and E-SATA. Got one yesterday on my holiday.

BobPresto · 25-09-2009 12:17am

Collected my 1.5TB HDD from Komplett today for €86.99. Selling
my old 1TB HDD tomorrow for €80.

feb09 · 25-09-2009 1:15am

is pick up still free ?
or have they started to charge for it again ?

alowe · 25-09-2009 6:27am

pickup is free. I'm picking up a 1tb there today that only cost €77.

MIN2511 · 28-09-2009 11:01pm

BobPresto wrote: »

Collected my 1.5TB HDD from Komplett today for €86.99. Selling
my old 1TB HDD tomorrow for €80.

I can't find this... Can you please send me the link? What brand?

BobPresto · 28-09-2009 11:07pm

HERE and remember search is your friend...

MIN2511 · 28-09-2009 11:30pm

13euro for PP???? Fecking ridiculous!

I can't collect it as i don't drive and i live in the CC.... Grrrrrr

BobPresto · 29-09-2009 12:08am

Get d 40d from parnell st it drops u a 2min walk away from d pickup point.

ghostdancer · 29-09-2009 4:50pm

picked up the Easons Seagate 1tb hard drive today, but it's showing up on my laptop as 500gb, and when i registered it using the software, it says it's 500gb too.
does anyone know if this is correct, or is it just showing up as that, but is actually 1tb?

packaging says 1tb, but under drive properties in XP, it says 465gb....

e: turns out the drive is 500gb according to the sticker on it, they must have put the wrong one in the box in Easons (liffey valley one).

MIN2511 · 29-09-2009 8:29pm

I bought one from Peats today...

madmoe · 29-09-2009 10:07pm

Are Samsung's good drives? I got me the 1TB Western Digital and like it a lot. What sort of reputation have WD got?

Cheers,
M

BobPresto wrote: »

HERE and remember search is your friend...

Orion · 29-09-2009 10:31pm

ghostdancer wrote: »

e: turns out the drive is 500gb according to the sticker on it, they must have put the wrong one in the box in Easons (liffey valley one).

They must have. Bring it back and get the proper one. 465Gb is about right if it's 500Gb (it's all down to how they calculate 1Gb - 1024mb vs 1000mb - marketing bull****).

madmoe wrote:

Are Samsung's good drives? I got me the 1TB Western Digital and like it a lot. What sort of reputation have WD got?

Samsung and WD are both good drives imo - never had a problem with either. I've two 750 Samsung drives in my rig in RAID1.

If you're talking about the WD Mybook I have an issue with them not allowing media file sharing over the web on it. But that's a principle thing. WD drives are reliable so no fear there.

Zynks · 29-09-2009 11:46pm

madmoe wrote: »

Are Samsung's good drives? I got me the 1TB Western Digital and like it a lot. What sort of reputation have WD got?

Cheers,
M

I have a 1TB on my server running 24/7 for the last year. Fast and reliable IMO. I intend to buy two more soon.

Thomasjo · 08-10-2009 1:18am

What's the verdict on the Western Digital Elements 1TB, going for €76 at http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

Also plan on buying the WD TV™ HD Media Player going for €89 at http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=408560

Any recommendations.
Tnks

madmoe · 08-10-2009 9:07am

Thomasjo wrote: »

What's the verdict on the Western Digital Elements 1TB, going for €76 at http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=420463

Also plan on buying the WD TV™ HD Media Player going for €89 at http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=408560

Any recommendations.
Tnks

I have both of these mate and I like them a lot.

That being said the WD TV HD Media Plyer does annoy me in some ways as it does not seem to be able to shuffle videos for example. I have a ton of music videos and it would be nice to put it on a shuffle rather than to have they play sequentially. There seems to be a shuffle function for audio\MP3's.

Also, I have recently gotten some HD music videos from Vuze that are encoded with Vorbis audio and it can't play back the audio at all :mad:

For Blu Ray rips and HD its the business and it has played everyting I have thrown at it. I have it hooked up to my Sony Audio receiver via the optical cable so I get the DTS\5.1 surround with the Blu Ray rips which definitely makes a difference.

I have ripped DVD's to it and played them perfectly although some people have had issues with the DVD menus.

There does not seem to be any way to create a playlist on it which is another annoyance and sometime the menu can be laggy!

Cheers,
M

Thomasjo · 08-10-2009 9:53pm

Cheers madmoe,

Have ordered the WD Disk, hoping to get the media player next month.
What format do the blue ray rips need to be.
in?

madmoe · 08-10-2009 10:03pm

Pretty much all of mine are in .MKV format. U got any yet mate?

Thomasjo · 09-10-2009 9:57pm

madmoe wrote: »

Pretty much all of mine are in .MKV format. U got any yet mate?

Just out of disk space on laptop. Downloaded film shifty(4.5gb) which is .mkv format, so no space for more until I get new HD. Had option of 150GB HD & Blueray drive or 250GB HD minus Blueray drive. Didn't take long to use up the 150gb.

Reads 1TB Ext. Harddrive

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