1TB Western Digital My Passport SE Portable HDD €69.99 + delivery

Gekko

Just ordered one from Currys.ie

Had got a quote from a shop on Baggot St. and they wanted €69 and €79 respectively for 320gb and 500gb Buffalo ones.

Oh and 1TB Western Digital ones are €125.50 + delivery on Expansys.ie !

Keith186

Just paid £74 on Amazon for the same one. Going to cancel and order here instead, nice one!

BlackWizard

Nice!

dr.bollocko

Keith186 wrote: »

Just paid £74 on Amazon for the same one. Going to cancel and order here instead, nice one!

Moi aussi.
Only mine is already arrived.
Oh well.

Whisper quiet. USB 3.0. How bad.

Hal Emmerich

people should be banned for not putting up links

Leeg17

Linky.

I'd buy one only for I got a 1tb portable for e42 with an Amazon misprice posted in BA a few weeks ago

Fiskar

Amazon must be watching boards.ie!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004445JK4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

paddydriver

Leeg17 wrote: »

Linky.

I'd buy one only for I got a 1tb portable for e42 with an Amazon misprice posted in BA a few weeks ago

Go on... rub it in again why don't ye:p

Wolverine359

It's the same price in-store as well, I saw them in black, red and blue.

dingding

ANy one know what the spec of the drive is.

Particularly the spec of the interface.

This would be a cheap way to upgrade the hard disk in a laptop if it had the correct interface.

Keith186

dingding wrote: »

ANy one know what the spec of the drive is.

Particularly the spec of the interface.

This would be a cheap way to upgrade the hard disk in a laptop if it had the correct interface.

I don't have a link to hand but I think I read in the reviews on amazon that it doesn't have a sata interface to use in a laptop or recover data if the usb connection breaks.

Lenny

How much is delivery off the website? edit see its €7.99. think ill go in store to buy this
Also does anyone know is this one of those drives when ya plug it in ya have that annoying software on it so you can lock/secure data on it?

dr.bollocko

Lenny wrote: »

How much is delivery off the website? edit see its €7.99. think ill go in store to buy this
Also does anyone know is this one of those drives when ya plug it in ya have that annoying software on it so you can lock/secure data on it?

I just formatted all that crap when I got it so hasn't been an issue.

thenightrider

dingding wrote: »

ANy one know what the spec of the drive is.

Particularly the spec of the interface.

This would be a cheap way to upgrade the hard disk in a laptop if it had the correct interface.

You cant use this in side a laptop if you take it out if the caseing the as, Western Digital bypassed the standard SATA II circuitry and built a USB connection directly into the 2.5in internal hard drive. Its a real pitty as ive got a laptop that can take 2 drives and was thing of buying 2 of them.

dingding

Thanks for the replys, last time I upgraded the laptop I got a drive out of an enclosure. Great as you can connect it to the PC in the enclosure to clone the existing drive.

Old drive then goes into the enclosure.

funnyname

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I just formatted all that crap when I got it so hasn't been an issue.

How do you do that?

dodzy

funnyname wrote: »

How do you do that?

My computer/right click the corresponding drive/format???

Automan

Got 1 in currys today, has anybody else noticed a vibration coming from there's? Mine does and im thinking of bringing it back for a replacement.
There is a few complaints on the WD forum about this also.
And worryingly there are a lot of complaints about the drive dying on amazon.

The_Conductor

dingding wrote: »

ANy one know what the spec of the drive is.

Particularly the spec of the interface.

This would be a cheap way to upgrade the hard disk in a laptop if it had the correct interface.

USB Micro-B connector hardwired onto the controller board, with the onboard PCB chipset providing a SATA to USB3 bridge.

Good article on the internal drives and the data encryption they use here.

Doodah7

Original link no longer works. Is this deal over?

lemd

tallpaul wrote: »

Original link no longer works. Is this deal over?

There were plenty in PC World and Currys in Carrickmines when I was there today. 1TB was €10 cheaper than the 500GB :rolleyes:

JCDUB

I got one in Airside today, €65, getting cheaper :cool:

I've been doing a back-up since about 6 o'clock and it's only just over half way through now at 9.

I think I've about 300gig of stuff on my laptop but I still reckon that's very slow. Can any techies out there tell me if that sounds right??

The_Conductor

JCDUB wrote: »

I got one in Airside today, €65, getting cheaper :cool:

I've been doing a back-up since about 6 o'clock and it's only just over half way through now at 9.

I think I've about 300gig of stuff on my laptop but I still reckon that's very slow. Can any techies out there tell me if that sounds right??

USB isn't asynchronous- it starts off fast and then slows right down (this is where Firewire- which may be slower comes into its own- its slower- but its constant). File size is also relevant here- large quantities of small files will copy/backup a hell of a lot faster on USB than a single large file even if there is an identical gross size.........

Also- are you on a USB 3, 2 or even 1 connection? With some older chipsets, devices revert back to USB1 speeds for hostpowered devices, irrespective of the relative capabilities of either the socket or the device.

Asking whether your 150-170Gb taking 3 hours is normal- isn't a simple yes/no answer- its certainly plausible- whether its satisfactory or not is an entirely different matter........

j4vier

is this hd still 65 in shop anyone know? the website says 90

Fiskar

Down to 62.95 at Ama... including delivery (74 euro approx)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004445JK4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

ninjasurfer1

j4vier wrote: »

is this hd still 65 in shop anyone know? the website says 90

Was in pcworld today and they were €89.99.
Looks like they've gone back up..:(

johnnykilo

I was thinking of picking up one of these online. What's the playback rate like? Is it fast enough to play a movie from without skipping and buffering every few seconds?

The_Conductor

johnnykilo wrote: »

I was thinking of picking up one of these online. What's the playback rate like? Is it fast enough to play a movie from without skipping and buffering every few seconds?

If there is stuttering/buffering- its at the receiver end, not the hard-drive end. Its extremely unlikely though.

GerardKeating

Fiskar wrote: »

Down to 62.95 at Ama... including delivery (74 euro approx)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004445JK4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Note that the price varies by Colour.

Silver 1TB is €82,
Blue/Black/Red 1TB is €69

Fiskar

GerardKeating wrote: »

Note that the price varies by Colour.

Silver 1TB is €82,
Blue/Black/Red 1TB is €69

Price is now 69 £, goes up and down like a yo yo , price changes everyday

Tockman

good price here for 750gb. 50£ about 59€inc irish vat rate. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-E05A075PBU2EL_C-750GB-External-StorE/dp/B003INEF3E/ref=sr_1_535?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1313853466&sr=1-535