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Seagate 3Tb External Hard Drive

  • 24-03-2011 2:11pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32


    Was in Harvey Normans Marquee Sale there awhile ago,

    They have a 3TB Hard Drive for €139, thought it was very good value.

    I was in the Airside one, not sure if other stores have same deal.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭pablo-jericho


    None too shabby at all. I'd be afraid something might happen to it tho, rather have a few smaller ones with the content dispersed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭mp3kid


    What's the usable size on the disk once it's formatted 2.5TB ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 Delminuso007


    i didnt even realise there was such this as a 3TB, pretty good value!

    They also had a 2TB for €89 if my memory serves me right


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    mp3kid wrote: »
    What's the usable size on the disk once it's formatted 2.5TB ?

    around 3,000,000,000,000 bytes, which should work out at around 2.73TB by my (most likely wrong) calculations


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,842 ✭✭✭Soarer


    Which Harveys?
    What brand unit?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 Delminuso007


    It was the Swords branch I was in and its the seagate brand, I've been using seagate for years and find them fantastic! hence my share on here :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,842 ✭✭✭Soarer


    Thanks.

    Didn't even know there was a 3TB HDD available!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Spazdarn


    A seagate hard drive for that price is definitely a bargain...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    A seagate hard drive for that price is definitely a bargain...

    Yes - The same one is 138 Sterling on Amazon.co.uk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 Harrythebandit


    I got 1 today. Comes with a 2 year warranty! Happy days


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  • Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    tman wrote: »
    around 3,000,000,000,000 bytes, which should work out at around 2.73TB by my (most likely wrong) calculations

    Your calculation is spot on, your terminology not quite so :)

    A TB is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, what you are referring to is the tebibyte (TiB) which is based on the binary calculation: 1TiB = 1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    unkel wrote: »
    Your calculation is spot on, your terminology not quite so :)

    A TB is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, what you are referring to is the tebibyte (TiB) which is based on the binary calculation: 1TiB = 1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes

    Yep, I got pulled up on that over on the PC building forum as well:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    tman wrote: »
    Yep, I got pulled up on that over on the PC building forum as well:o

    I's as much microsofts fault as anyones for working storage out using the binary 1024 system yet then they use the plain 1000 terminology to describe it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Dr.Winston O'Boogie


    None in the HN in Nutgrove which is annoying. I was up in PC World then after and they had 3tb ones for 300 quid!


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