Ext Hard Drive

alibabba

Hello

Im looking for an external USB hard drive to suuport my business laptop. The best I can find at the moment is on Play.com, 500 GB for £45 delivered.
If anyone knows of anything as good or better size/price wise I would be grateful for the advise. Thanks.



http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/9752949/Seagate-Expansion-500GB-External-USB-Desktop-Hard-Drive/Product.html

Mad_Mike

Spotted these in Easons Liffey Valley the other day
1.5TB for €109


***EDIT***

Just remembered they had lots of smaller Seagate drives also. Checked the site and found they have a 1TB for €79

Keano

Check this thread out. Western Digital are the best in the market IMO.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055753668

Lucifer

I bought a Western Digital 1TB from Komplett.ie for €75 and if you can collect it in Blanchardstown you dont have to pay for delivery. I ordered mine friday morning and collected monday.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=572846

IRCA

WD 1TB for €89.99 in PC World, Mahon Point, Cork

alibabba

IRCA wrote: »

WD 1TB for €89.99 in PC World, Mahon Point, Cork

Yip, picked this exact one up last nite in PC World

samhail

Lucifer wrote: »

I bought a Western Digital 1TB from Komplett.ie for €75 and if you can collect it in Blanchardstown you dont have to pay for delivery. I ordered mine friday morning and collected monday.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=572846

did the same last monday, should get the text any day now to pick it up.

bought one of these a few months ago too.

Kenny_D

If it's for a work laptop then I'd recommend getting a 2.5" drive. They're much smaller, portable and most of them do not require an additional power supply but will simply run off the USB ports on your laptop. Much handier than lugging a 3.5" ext hard drive and plug around with you.

I'd also recommend WD drives. The passport range is the 2.5" range I think

dowtchaboy

GStormcrow wrote: »

If it's for a work laptop then I'd recommend getting a 2.5" drive. They're much smaller, portable and most of them do not require an additional power supply but will simply run off the USB ports on your laptop. Much handier than lugging a 3.5" ext hard drive and plug around with you.

I'd also recommend WD drives. The passport range is the 2.5" range I think

I have become wary of the USB powered drives - the build seems a little flimsy, especially the USB connector itself if PCB mounted - I have had one break off the PCB - inevitably if you lug it around with a laptop it will be jerked by its USB lead, stuffed into satchels and sat on etc. For pure backup purposes I think a 1TB sitting on a shelf at home used once a week to backup from the laptop would be better, and in that case you might as well go for a more rugged, and faster, and cheaper mains-powered one. WD, Samsung, Hitachi maybe Seagate in my opinion - avoid anything by Iomega!

shardylan

I thought Play wont deliver electronics here ,i tried to order this and it said cannot deliver to Ireland only Uk .Is there a way around it

jenno86

shardylan wrote: »

I thought Play wont deliver electronics here ,i tried to order this and it said cannot deliver to Ireland only Uk .Is there a way around it

You thought right! They don't, and AFAIK there is no way around it.

Gran Hermano

I was looking at picking up a couple of these or similar for Christmas presents. Looking at recent comments on Amazon UK, it looks like WD have redesigned the latest batch and people are having trouble with
the USB port on them.

Mymemory.co.uk and Amazon UK are also good for prices on these or similar.

degsie

Aldi have a portable drive coming up soon for €70.

badker

Is there much of a difference in brands seagate and western digital?

Can you advise me what product i should get?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansions-500GB-External-Desktop/dp/B0020FVKO8/ref=pd_sim_ce_5

or

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002COI612

Thanks

kinkstr

degsie wrote: »

Aldi have a portable drive coming up soon for €70.

Does that need a plug or does it run off the usb?

smodgley

reeds of nassau st were advertising a 1TB on the radio tonight for 79 euro

donmeister

kinkstr wrote: »

Does that need a plug or does it run off the usb?

Doubt it, an AC Adapter would have been mentioned on the product page if that was the case.

Effluo

kinkstr wrote: »

Does that need a plug or does it run off the usb?

2.5" drives don't an ac adapter.

3.5" do generally(may be able to get some which run from two usb ports)