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SMALL EXTERNAL HDD REQUIRED

  • 23-04-2012 4:09pm
    #1
    Irishgoatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭


    Help required please as I'm going round in circles!

    I need a small, 100gb would do, external usb hdd to plug into a saorview box.
    The problem I'm coming across is that it must need an external power supply.

    I have seen plenty much larger than I need but don't see the point in paying for space that will never be needed.

    If anyone can point me in the right direction, make/supplier etc. I would very much appreciate it.


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  • #2
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Buy a 3.5" enclosure and throw in some old 80GB HDD.

    Nobody is doing such small HDDs anymore. If you don't have one, ask in a computer shop nearby if the have an old spare somewhere. ;)


  • #3
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    How about a 64 GB USB flash drive? 38 quid on Amazon (UK).


  • #4
    Irishgoatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭Irishgoatman


    Torqay wrote: »
    Buy a 3.5" enclosure and throw in some old 80GB HDD.

    Nobody is doing such small HDDs anymore. If you don't have one, ask in a computer shop nearby if the have an old spare somewhere. ;)

    Thanks for replying but I'm an OAP with, most of the time, a plug and play mentality so don't fully understand what you're telling me!.

    It's not the cost but the waste in buying something more than I will ever need that annoys me. I hate the throw away society that we have become.


  • #5
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Irishgoatman wrote: »
    don't fully understand what you're telling me!

    Buy a 3.5" HDD enclosure, i.e. this one at Dabs.ie for 16 yoyos will take IDE or SATA hard drives (and it does have a power supply). Now you can put in any old hard drive. If you don't have one, most computer shops have some old spares around.

    Whether you like it or not, whether you need the space or not, new hard disk drives are currently at least 500 GB in size.


  • #6
    Irishgoatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭Irishgoatman


    Torqay wrote: »
    How about a 64 GB USB flash drive? 38 quid on Amazon (UK).

    Thanks for this Torqay,
    Because of reading the manual I hadn't even thought about a flash drive:o.
    Just tried my mini one and it works well so I'll be onto Amazon. 64 gb will do me fine.
    Due to analog going I've got to get rid of 2 out of my 4 dvd recorders! what a pain. There are times like tonight when there are 4 progs on that interest me and all around the 9 o/c mark and I'm going out. In a few months time I'll have to pick and choose.

    Much appreciated.:)


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  • #7
    _AVALANCHE_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Try and get in Sky+ with this offer, you can record two things at once with that. You can even watch something you recorded earlier while those two are recording.

    1 entertainment pack should/would be €12.50 a month + the €30 Installation.

    Offer will be around untill May 10th going by Loopymums post.


  • #8
    Irishgoatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭Irishgoatman


    _AVALANCHE_ wrote: »
    Try and get in Sky+ with this offer, you can record two things at once with that. You can even watch something you recorded earlier while those two are recording.

    1 entertainment pack should/would be €12.50 a month + the €30 Installation.

    Offer will be around untill May 10th going by Loopymums post.

    Thanks but I've already got satellite for the free channels and 2 of my recorders have the ability to record one thing whilst watching something previously recorded. This ability has been around for a long time. Way before Sky started doing it.

    Thanks anyway.:)


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