1TB Hard Drive €80

Eathrin

http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20101111.p.1TB_External_Hard_Drive

Lidl Thursday next
1tb HDD €80

Also some other good deals
HD camcorder €110
SD satellite receiver €60
and others
http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20101111.index

Ghost Train

Sat receiver is SDTV not HD

Eathrin

Ghost Train wrote: »

Sat receiver is SDTV not HD

Edited. The "HDMI" caught me out

Eathrin

Would this suit a mass storage usb media player does anybody know?

drunkymonkey

I'm thinking of buying the harddrive tomorrow, does anyone know if it's an ok brand, should I trust it?? The brand is Silvercrest.

marcbrophy

drunkymonkey wrote: »

I'm thinking of buying the harddrive tomorrow, does anyone know if it's an ok brand, should I trust it?? The brand is Silvercrest.

Silvercrest is pretty alright, they make lots of things. I have a dvd player and an electric razor that are silvercrest branded and never had any troubles with them!

Oh, and i don't think the hard drive will be available until Thursday!

faral

from lidl??i wouldnt take it.i mean the reilibilty can be poor

Brian

Today's Gruupy offer is €65 for a 1TB Toshiba external harddrive, jfyi. http://www.gruupy.com/

Not interested in it myself, but I guess Toshiba are probably more reputable.

Onikage

Doesn't anyone check amazon anymore?? 1TB Western Digital for £49.99 (€58)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002E7HEVU?ie=UTF8&tag=nineteen-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=B002E7HEVU

marcbrophy

Onikage wrote: »

Doesn't anyone check amazon anymore?? 1TB Western Digital for £49.99 (€58)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002E7HEVU?ie=UTF8&tag=nineteen-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=B002E7HEVU

Saw this alright, but something about how cheap it is has got me skeptical. I know it's probably a genuine price, but i can't help thinking it's mispriced or something.

drunkymonkey

Baza210 wrote: »

Today's Gruupy offer is €65 for a 1TB Toshiba external harddrive, jfyi. http://www.gruupy.com/

Not interested in it myself, but I guess Toshiba are probably more reputable.

Interested in this but looking at the site it's like a couple of stoners set it up the way they speak on it!!

Is the site reputable?

megaten

Onikage wrote: »

Doesn't anyone check amazon anymore?? 1TB Western Digital for (€58)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002E7HEVU?ie=UTF8&tag=nineteen-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=B002E7HEVU

Bought this for 65 a few weeks ago. Working alright so far.

GruupyLove

drunkymonkey wrote: »

Interested in this but looking at the site it's like a couple of stoners set it up the way they speak on it!!

Is the site reputable?

Haha, a couple of stoners? Haven't heard that one yet...

I know I may be a little biased, but we are actually legit, however informal we sound. We're a Dublin-based company set up by a group of already successful entrepreneurs who wanted to bring a little fun to the world of business. I guess sometimes it sounds like we're having a little too much fun?

Don't believe me, but we do have at least one thread full of happy customers here on boards.

jahalpin

You can get 1TB Seagate and Iomega drives in Easons for between 74 and 79 euro

Unlike LIDL, they actually have adequate stocks in their shops and they also have brands that people have actually heard of.

iisollie

faral wrote: »

from lidl??i wouldnt take it.i mean the reilibilty can be poor

Is that why lidl (and aldi) are the only stores who gve a 3 year warranty?

syklops

Cian A wrote: »

Would this suit a mass storage usb media player does anybody know?

My concern would be it would be a little too unwieldly for a media player. I am assuming by "USB Media player" you mean one you plug into the telly and play stuff off of? In my experience they tend to have poor interfaces for selecting the content you want, and you sometimes have to flick through a large number of files to find the one you want.

What I would do is use a standard 250 GB drive for it, and regularly copy the stuff you want to watch to it.

This drive would IMO be better suited to backing up data. Even now in the age of HD 1TB is a hell of a lot of space for your average user.

Pyridine

You can get 1TB Seagate and Iomega drives in Easons for between 74 and 79 euro

Unlike LIDL, they actually have adequate stocks in their shops and they also have brands that people have actually heard of.

This hard drive has an eSATA connection apparently. The more "reputable" brands in Easons don't have this!

Also who cares what it says on the tin....it's what's inside that matters and most probably it's the same hard drive as the Easons brand!

jpfahy

There are only three or four Hard Disk manufacturers in the world. Therefore the disk in the Lidl drive has to be one of those. Worth bearing in mind!

EoghanConway

Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung and Toshiba IIRC. The rest are rebranded.

Raiser

EoghanConway wrote: »

Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung and Toshiba IIRC. The rest are rebranded.

Are Maxtor gone?

- Or were they a rebranded product themselves?

They have (had?) the worst reputation of any HD I've ever heard of.....

Lots of lost Digital Photos etc. went into the Maxtor black hole and left broken hearts behind them :eek:

Glenza69

Argos are selling a Hitachi 1TB external hard drive for 82.99 with a built in backup feature. Bought one myself and well worth the money. Solid brand also.

marco_polo

£50 - £55 is a pretty standard online price for a 1TB external drive nowadays, but 80 quid ain't too bad at all for a walk in retail at all especially with an eSata port.

Unless anybody knows the OEM that produced the drive inside the casing then arguments about the reliability or otherwise are pretty pointless. As they are willing to stand over it with a 3-year warranty I'd take that as a good sign nonethless.

Gamer2010

marco_polo wrote: »

£50 - £55 is a pretty standard online price for a 1TB external drive nowadays, but 80 quid ain't too bad at all for a walk in retail at all especially with an eSata port.

Unless anybody knows the OEM that produced the drive inside the casing then arguments about the reliability or otherwise are pretty pointless. As they are willing to stand over it with a 3-year warranty I'd take that as a good sign nonethless.

They usually use Western Digital drives inside.

EoghanConway

Raiser wrote: »

Are Maxtor gone?

Maxtor did manufacture drives, but were bought by Seagate some time ago. In my experience, Seagate have continued the tradition of dodgy drives

Philsopher

Forgive my ignorance, but what is an eSata port??

I need to invest in a 1TB hard drive fairly soon as my hard drive is full of music, movies and tv series. This thread is proving to be very helpful so thank you to everyone who has posted some good deals on here.

johnwd

Hitachi are a maker of harddrives - and not just a rebrand of someone elses. They bought IBM out of the harddrive business some years ago (similar to what Lenovo did with their desktops and Laptops) - I've had them in my desktop for a few years, have had zero issues with them and would recommend.

Someone asked about eSata - essentially it's quicker than a USB 2.0 connection (triple the rate in theory but I don't think you'd get anything like that in practice). Even if you don't have an eSata connection to plug it into right now most new PCs/laptops come with an eSata port so might be worth considering for the future - worth an extra tenner to have it imho.

Having said that USB 3.0 is out and will eventually make its way into the mainstream - it will be quicker again but right now I think you'd have to pay a heavy premium for a harddrive with it. Maybe if a new laptop was on my xmas list I'd be looking for it to have a USB 3.0 port.

apoeiguq3094y

http://www.gruupy.com/ are selling 1TB toshiba external hard drive for €64.99 today. free post to ireland.

dapto1

So which of these is the least likely to fail on me?

Philsopher

johnwd wrote: »

Hitachi are a maker of harddrives - and not just a rebrand of someone elses. They bought IBM out of the harddrive business some years ago (similar to what Lenovo did with their desktops and Laptops) - I've had them in my desktop for a few years, have had zero issues with them and would recommend.

Someone asked about eSata - essentially it's quicker than a USB 2.0 connection (triple the rate in theory but I don't think you'd get anything like that in practice). Even if you don't have an eSata connection to plug it into right now most new PCs/laptops come with an eSata port so might be worth considering for the future - worth an extra tenner to have it imho.

Having said that USB 3.0 is out and will eventually make its way into the mainstream - it will be quicker again but right now I think you'd have to pay a heavy premium for a harddrive with it. Maybe if a new laptop was on my xmas list I'd be looking for it to have a USB 3.0 port.

I asked about eSata. Thanks for your reply but you're dealing with a bit of a technophobe here - as far as computers go, I know how to turn it on and how to surf the net but that's about it. I haven't a clue what any of that meant. Sorry!

RolandIRL

eSATA is just another way to connect your hard drive to the computer, like USB, but you need a power supply with it. it's able to transfer stuff to and from the drive much faster than USB.

johnwd

Oops, sorry about that Philosopher, I think whiteman19 covered it so!

Eathrin

johnwd wrote: »

Someone asked about eSata - essentially it's quicker than a USB 2.0 connection (triple the rate in theory but I don't think you'd get anything like that in practice). Even if you don't have an eSata connection to plug it into right now most new PCs/laptops come with an eSata port so might be worth considering for the future - worth an extra tenner to have it imho.

Having said that USB 3.0 is out and will eventually make its way into the mainstream - it will be quicker again but right now I think you'd have to pay a heavy premium for a harddrive with it. Maybe if a new laptop was on my xmas list I'd be looking for it to have a USB 3.0 port.

I think i'll hold out for usb 3.0 so before i get my next laptop,
So e-sata is optional, one or the other stuff?

Anthropology

Hope to get one later today;

I am pretty picky with electronics and they really have to be very good quality and perform highly to be bought by me.

Looks like a good deal to me; touch under normal pricing for something like that and selling points for me are:

· Aluminum heat sinking
· 7200 rpm (most drives are only 5400?)
· USB 2.0 and eSata connection

Anthropology

*Later Today*

Got the HD; need to reformat it as it doesn't straight away give me read/write access on my iMac! (only read; it is NTFS Formatted {Windows})

Annoying but i found this.

"You probably formatted it with an NTFS filesystem. The Mac won't read NTFS drives. You will need to reformat the drive (after backing up the data that's on it) with a FAT32 filesystem. AFAIK FAT32 is the only filesystem that can be read by both Mac and Windows."

Will format and see what's the story.

Run_to_da_hills

I wouldn't touch any of those 1TB 3 1/2" Hdds that are listed since the 2 1/2 TB drives became availible, they all require 220V power and are bulky. Maxburns do a 1TB Seagate 2 1/2 external drives for e109 on line.

Zillah

Anthropology wrote: »

*Later Today*

Got the HD; need to reformat it as it doesn't straight away give me read/write access on my iMac! (only read; it is NTFS Formatted {Windows})

Annoying but i found this.

"You probably formatted it with an NTFS filesystem. The Mac won't read NTFS drives. You will need to reformat the drive (after backing up the data that's on it) with a FAT32 filesystem. AFAIK FAT32 is the only filesystem that can be read by both Mac and Windows."

Will format and see what's the story.

I'm not sure why you're surprised by this. Mac and Windows use different file systems, you will always have this issue with any storage device.

Wossack

Anthropology wrote: »

Hope to get one later today;

I am pretty picky with electronics and they really have to be very good quality and perform highly to be bought by me.

Looks like a good deal to me; touch under normal pricing for something like that and selling points for me are:

· Aluminum heat sinking
· 7200 rpm (most drives are only 5400?)
· USB 2.0 and eSata connection

Most normal desktop drives are 7200

Wossack

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I wouldn't touch any of those 1TB 3 1/2" Hdds that are listed since the 2 1/2 TB drives became availible, they all require 220V power and are bulky. Maxburns do a 1TB Seagate 2 1/2 external drives for e109 on line.

where the smart moneys at! feckin tiny compared to a 3.5. No poxy power brick too

reckon the laptop drives are better for mobile use too - less rotating mass so survive drops better imo. Think some park their heads automagically if they sense strong gyroscopic forces too.. which is nice

Run_to_da_hills

Wossack wrote: »

where the smart moneys at! feckin tiny compared to a 3.5. No poxy power brick too

reckon the laptop drives are better for mobile use too - less rotating mass so survive drops better imo. Think some park their heads automagically if they sense strong gyroscopic forces too.. which is nice

I ripped mine apart as soon as I got it, the drive is thicker than the normal so it won't fit into a standard laptop. I was hoping to fit it into a slimmer caddy as the seagate caddy is rather bulky compared to other 2 1/2" external drives. It still beats any 3 1/2 drive. The ultimate combination would be a TB HDD in a Lacie Rugged caddy.