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Intenso 750GB Portable Drive - €49!! Harvey Norman

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  • #2
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    swingking wrote: »
    Seems like a good deal in harvey Norman

    You can buy online for in-store pickup

    https://www.harveynorman.ie/intenso-750gb-portable-hard-drive.html

    great deal but are they any good i wonder?


  • #3
    Gadge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gadge


    I've bought a few 500GB drives from Intenso and they're as good as any other brand I've bought.


  • #4
    plonker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭plonker


    Would they be ok for playing movies on a tv,i had a 320gb usb powered drive before and it used to stop playing after a while,never had a prob with a mains powered drive?


  • #5
    fl4pj4ck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭fl4pj4ck


    PCW has 2TB for e99 for ages, just for someone looking for a bigger one


  • #6
    barry181091
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    They should be fine. The actual hard drives in them are not Intenso, they are from one of the names you know (Seagate/WD/Hitachi etc)


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  • #7
    degsie
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    fl4pj4ck wrote: »
    PCW has 2TB for e99 for ages, just for someone looking for a bigger one

    Portable vs mains powered. Not really a fair comparison.


  • #8
    Gadge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gadge


    plonker wrote: »
    Would they be ok for playing movies on a tv,i had a 320gb usb powered drive before and it used to stop playing after a while,never had a prob with a mains powered drive?


    I got a few Intenso ones for friends who needed them for that very purpose. No problems with them after 18 months or so anyway.


  • #9
    plonker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭plonker


    so would this Intenso drive be ok for movie playback on a tv(dont no if we'll need it tho when Pirate bay gets blocked)?


  • #10
    Gadge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gadge


    plonker wrote: »
    so would this Intenso drive be ok for movie playback on a tv(dont no if we'll need it tho when Pirate bay gets blocked)?

    No reason why it shouldn't be fine.


  • #11
    plonker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭plonker


    Cheers Gadge!!


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  • #12
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    just out of curiosity is there any truth in the rumor that the bigger the portable hard drive the more likely it is to fail?


  • #13
    Dave147
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    plonker wrote: »
    so would this Intenso drive be ok for movie playback on a tv(dont no if we'll need it tho when Pirate bay gets blocked)?

    Lol, I wouldn't be too worried about Sherblock if I were you...


  • #14
    DipStick McSwindler
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  • #15
    clint_silver
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    IrishFeeney92 wrote: »
    from experience ive found this to be false, the only hard drives ive had fail on me where the plug in desktop ones, purely because of power surgess

    Agreed.

    this is what lends itself to the myth that bigger drives go first. bigger drives tended to always need power, any slight fall or power surge and its fried. So its not that theres any great fail point in big disks themselves, its the power element that causes the notion of a higher fail rate

    go the extra few quid for military drop proof/shock proof. think I have 6 of them now, not one has ever given any trouble.

    lists of them here from the always wonderful shop4memory
    http://www.shop4memory.com/products/external-hard-drives.asp


  • #16
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    IrishFeeney92 wrote: »
    from experience ive found this to be false, the only hard drives ive had fail on me where the plug in desktop ones, purely because of power surgess
    Generally concur but I'd add a proviso. I've seen too many failures, some with disastrous consequences. Expensive and branded doesn't always imply reliable, problems are probably as much to with certain technologies as mass production and quality control.
    Portable drives are by nature easier to steal, lose or drop, and people tend to rely on them as the sole copy of their precious files. Damaged they are often unrecoverable even by specialists, so always use them as a secondary backup, kept separately
    2 years ago, before the Thai floods, prices were cheaper than they are now. No sign of them returning to similar prices yet.


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