MyDrive 500gb HDD €20 Dunnes Stores

corsav6

Picked up a 500gb external HDD for €20 and a 320gb for €16 in Dunnes Stores Castlebar. 75% off, they may be in other stores but I'm not sure.


Both drives are USB 2 and 2.5" powered by USB cable. MyDrive Platinum is the brand if anyone wants to look online.

Fresh Pots

corsav6 wrote: »

Picked up a 500gb external HDD for €20 and a 320gb for €16 in Dunnes Stores Castlebar. 75% off, they may be in other stores but I'm not sure.

Need a new portable hdd. Might take a swing over to my local one later. Thanks.

corsav6

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Need a new portable hdd. Might take a swing over to my local one later. Thanks.

I didn't need one but at that price I couldn't resist.

myshirt

Is your Data only worth €20 to you?

€50 a gig recovery when this drive goes kaput.

Fresh Pots

myshirt wrote: »

Is your Data only worth €20 to you?

€50 a gig recovery when this drive goes kaput.

Its only for my movies and tv shows so it wouldn't be the end of the world to me but I see your point.

The_Honeybadger

myshirt wrote: »

Is your Data only worth €20 to you?

€50 a gig recovery when this drive goes kaput.

Anybody silly enough to store important data on one single drive without backing it up deserves to lose it. This would make an ideal backup drive at that price.

myshirt

mickeyk wrote: »

Anybody silly enough to store important data on one single drive without backing it up deserves to lose it. This would make an ideal backup drive at that price.

Ok, agreed.

Just don't put on photos of your kids, and birthday videos etc. Lose them and the wife will have you out on your ear!

crazygeryy

mickeyk wrote: »

Anybody silly enough to store important data on one single drive without backing it up deserves to lose it. This would make an ideal backup drive at that price.

yea but where does it end.you back it up onto a drive and it fails,should you have backed that up to?what if that one fails,may as well back that up as well....................................

corsav6

I'm going to put the drive inside my laptop and reuse the 320gb that's in it. I'll post back tomorrow what make HDD is inside.

The cheapest I could find this item online was €60, so €20 is a real deal.

€50 per GB recovered is a worse case scenario, and I don't believe this particular drive would be any more prone to failure than other drives.

Axwell

corsav6 wrote: »

I'm going to put the drive inside my laptop and reuse the 320gb that's in it. I'll post back tomorrow what make HDD is inside.

Would be worth checking the read and write speeds of the external drive before shoving it in your laptop. It might be dog slow compared to the one you have in it already.

corsav6

Axwell wrote: »

Would be worth checking the read and write speeds of the external drive before shoving it in your laptop. It might be dog slow compared to the one you have in it already.

Its states on their website its 35mbs read and 25mbs write. I copied a few files over through USB and avg 42mbs write, peaked at 70mbs.

L1011

crazygeryy wrote: »

yea but where does it end.you back it up onto a drive and it fails,should you have backed that up to?what if that one fails,may as well back that up as well....................................

The likelyhood of a second, non-identical drive failing whilst you back it up to the third you've just bought is extremely low.

About as likely as a cloud storage provider losing your data, if that was going to be the suggestion.

Using identical drives from the same batch as backups of each other runs a much higher risk of manufacturing faults.

The_Honeybadger

crazygeryy wrote: »

yea but where does it end.you back it up onto a drive and it fails,should you have backed that up to?what if that one fails,may as well back that up as well....................................

You'd have to be seriously unlucky to have two or three drives fail at the same time. Cloud storage is so cheap now anyway that losing data should hopefully soon become a thing of the past.

Notch000

if the clouds keep growing physical memory will soon be put on the list with Tapes, VHS & CDs

zom

Notch000 wrote: »

if the clouds keep growing physical memory will soon be put on the list with Tapes, VHS & CDs

With ADSL internet connection as lot of people have at the moment using cloud is like buying restaurant to eat a breakfast. It is FASTER and much more reliable to keep data on USB. At least here in Ireland.

L1011

zom wrote: »

With ADSL internet connection as lot of people have at the moment using cloud is like buying restaurant to eat a breakfast. It is FASTER and much more reliable to keep data on USB. At least here in Ireland.

UPC's implementation of EuroDOCSIS basically means even those of us with working 200mbit downlink speeds are only getting ~15mbit (sold as 10mbit) uplink - its not just an ADSL problem.

RobbingBandit

I think I'll pick one up and store my Bitcoin on it...

vibe666

crazygeryy wrote: »

yea but where does it end.you back it up onto a drive and it fails,should you have backed that up to?what if that one fails,may as well back that up as well....................................

the rule of thumb for critical data is "3-2-1"

3 copies of your data, two local and one remote.

i.e. keep critical data on your PC or laptop with a copy on a USB drive and another copy in dropbox or google drive etc. so your local copy saves against a single drive failure, with the remote copy saving against your house burning down or being burgled.

You have to take into consideration that EVERY disk is 100% guaranteed that it WILL fail sooner or later, it's just a matter of WHEN, not IF, so not backing up important data to at least one other location (but preferably two) is a surefire recipe for disaster, but you won't know when that will be until it's too late, so it's basically playing russian roulette with your data, as any given drive could fail after a week, a month, a year, three years or longer, but you have very little chance of finding out exactly when that will be, so better safe than sorry as you aren't likely to realise how important your data is until after it's gone.

beauf

mickeyk wrote: »

You'd have to be seriously unlucky to have two or three drives fail at the same time. Cloud storage is so cheap now anyway that losing data should hopefully soon become a thing of the past.

More likely is a virus or data corruption that happens on one disk and you copy to your other drives. So having a copy on another medium like dvd or the cloud at least of the critical stuff is vital.

Also keep old versions. Say 12, 6 & 1 month versions. So I you find a problem you can go back to an older version.

Consider encryption also.

Picked up 2 320Gb in Mallow for €16.25 - no 500Gb available. It looks like the deal isn't limited to just one store.

corsav6

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Picked up 2 320Gb in Mallow for €16.25 - no 500Gb available. It looks like the deal isn't limited to just one store.

Sold out in Castlebar now. A friend went in and a girl told him that the staff had purchased them all.

JimsAlterEgo

where do they usually have them? what area?

SEPT 23 1989

any left in the Dublin area?

clint_silver

speccy is your friend for highlighting any disk issues, can someone run it against that disk and let me know the speeds?

https://www.piriform.com/speccy

slave1

None in Athlone, they don't sell 'those' :rolleyes:

Cloyne man

Maynooth dunnes none left- staff no idea what i was taking about

will56

320gb on shelf for €16.75, had 500gb in the stockroom. Only found out when I brought the display box to Customer Services

Nobody knew they had HDD marked down by 75% !

Cantona's Collars

Cloyne man wrote: »

Maynooth dunnes none left- staff no idea what i was taking about

No point going to my local Dunnes,some of the staff the there don't even know if they are alive.

georgem25

will56 wrote: »

320gb on shelf for €16.75, had 500gb in the stockroom. Only found out when I brought the display box to Customer Services

Nobody knew they had HDD marked down by 75% !

Where?

will56

DunneStores, Blanchardstown Shopping Centre.

Might not be any on the shelves but could be worth asking someone.
I took the last 320gb box of the shelf but when a member of staff went to get an actual product she had boxes of the 500gb in storage.

grimm2005

Just got the last 500gb in Cornelscourt, had to ask a manager who checked a back room, had 1 of each left, said he wasn't getting any more in, think he was putting the other one on the shelf. Thanks OP!

a clanger

Might as well have been talking Klingon to the staff in Childers rd......:mad:
...and no drives anywhere

Tefral

None in either the Harvey's Quay or Jetland dunnes in Limerick

a clanger

cronin_j wrote: »

None in either the Harvey's Quay or Jetland dunnes in Limerick

Typical .....Limerick getting shafted again ðŸ˜

long_b

Picked up one of each in Newbridge .
Cheers OP.

Staff weren't aware of the offer but showed interest when they saw the reductions .

Apparently there were some left "upstairs in the office " but I'd guess the staff may nab them.

corsav6

long_b wrote: »

Picked up one of each in Newbridge .
Cheers OP.

Staff weren't aware of the offer but showed interest when they saw the reductions .

Apparently there were some left "upstairs in the office " but I'd guess the staff may nab them.

Same story in Castlebar, staff knew nothing about it. One member thought it was 20% off until I asked to have a look.
Hope some stores have a few left for boardies.

long_b

Axwell wrote: »

Would be worth checking the read and write speeds of the external drive before shoving it in your laptop. It might be dog slow compared to the one you have in it already.

FWIW the drives are Hitachi 5400 rpm with 8 MB cache.

Averaging 15 MB/sec write on mixed photo/video transfer.

ROVER

grimm2005 wrote: »

Just got the last 500gb in Cornelscourt, had to ask a manager who checked a back room, had 1 of each left, said he wasn't getting any more in, think he was putting the other one on the shelf. Thanks OP!

Thanks OP and Grimm picked up the 320gb one in Cornelscourt.

Greenmachine

Terrific price.

codie

None in Tralee,tried today.

worleygirly

Happy days! got one in Dunne's stores westside galway

Tribal Wardfare

Just got mine in Terryland Galway. Had to ask for it too as it was not yet on the shelf.

Thrilled - thanks!

Fresh Pots

None in clondalkin.

cfeeneyinterior

worleygirly wrote: »

Happy days! got one in Dunne's stores westside galway

Where had they them in westside?

laros

Any chance of a picture of the outer box.. ? also where in stores are these being stocked... with electrical goods or at customer service desks..?
Thanks..

Moyglish

None left in any Dunnes in Galway, tried them all this evening

cfeeneyinterior

Moyglish wrote: »

None left in any Dunnes in Galway, tried them all this evening

Did u ask anyone in them?

Moyglish

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Did u ask anyone in them?

Yep, of course! Wouldn't waste my time trekking to all the shops without asking the staff :P

worleygirly

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Where had they them in westside?

Asked at Customer service desk, they checked the office and came out with it, thought it was 79 but when scanned through it was 20

NIMAN

myshirt wrote: »

Is your Data only worth €20 to you?

€50 a gig recovery when this drive goes kaput.

There are only a handful of HDD manufacturers in the world, so its made by one of them, no reason to think that a drive thats being sold cheap is a cheap drive.

Rob!

Moyglish wrote: »

None left in any Dunnes in Galway, tried them all this evening

Think I grabbed the last one (320gb) in terryland at around 6ish. No idea about westside. Although I asked 3 times. Guy stocking - no idea. Second manager - sure they didnt sell them. Third manager got me one form upstairs.