Desktop Hard Drive....Is this any Good????

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:15 am

Is this any good????

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?Description=UK_SK_External_Hard_Drives_and_USB&CatIds=21797,89059,21812,93000&webid=392256&affixedcode=WW+

It seems to be for the price but I haven't purchased one before so I need some advice!!!! :coool:

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

If you want something to lug your record collection / photographs etc...around try this... http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/ca ... xedcode=WW

half the size of the other one, dead easy to set up and "should" hold anyones record collection

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:10 am

Tesco

250 gig for £40
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-0415.aspx

500 gig under £60
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.203-0809.aspx

As good as anywhere else youre likely to find.

bluemonkey · **Joined:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:54 pm **Posts:** 1101

Lacie drives are French and in many opinions the best drives on the market, I bought a 1tb desktop drive 2 years ago for just over 250 quid and its been fantastic. I also have a 400gb Tesco's drive that cost 45 quid and that has been very good value, last year I bought a Freecom drive from PC World and it was rubbish.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:09 pm

Yeah I'd be inclined to go for the Tesco one too.

BTW, according to LaCie themselves, they are based in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, just round the corner from Sheffield Wednesday.
That wouldn't necessarily stop them being French like. :wink:

yloop · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:40 pm

There's a 1tb one at tesco for £68

stupoolie · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:19 pm

yloop wrote:

There's a 1tb one at tesco for £68

madness!! Years ago a 1tb Hard Disk would cost u a bloody fortune, Over £1,000

Now you can get one for £68, Might just invest... But it is stupidly big!

bluemonkey · **Joined:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:54 pm **Posts:** 1101

Stu I have 3 desktop drives that add up to just under 2tb and I have 108gb of free space or so it tells me, the problem with having so much space is that you never delete anything at all. rage

stupoolie · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:43 pm

bluemonkey wrote:

Stu I have 3 desktop drives that add up to just under 2tb and I have 108gb of free space or so it tells me, the problem with having so much space is that you never delete anything at all. rage

Haha, Your right there bluemonkey. I've got 750GB Space here of which I have around 140GB free.

Least without deleting anything, You dont lose any important files, After accidentley deleting them :wink:

Problem is I bet some files are so damn hard to find.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22669

I've got a tb drive. It's about 80% full and most of it is the same stuff duplicated all over the place. I'm paranoid about deleting things, trouble is, the things I really want to find, I can't!

I really must sort that mess out.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:09 pm

I just upgraded to 2OO gig :uhoh:

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:49 pm

I've got 140G across two drives and unless you're actually running a server or summat surely you don't need that much?? I mean I've got 6500 songs on here and they only take up 8G??

You could run NASA on 1Tb?? confised

stupoolie · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:50 pm

Spender wrote:

I've got 140G across two drives and unless you're actually running a server or summat surely you don't need that much?? I mean I've got 6500 songs on here and they only take up 8G??

You could run NASA on 1Tb?? confised

Your right there Spender :grin:

But people download fillums, Games, Applications and songs. Mr I somehow has filled a fair wack, Would love to know what he stores to fill all that? It amazes me

bluemonkey · **Joined:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:54 pm **Posts:** 1101

I can only speak for myself here but I have 1 drive full of fillums that I never watch, I drive full of games that I may play once every blue moon and 1 drive with 4,500 albums(rough guess) that I may play about 50 of them.

I have good intentions in tranfering the fillums and mp3's onto disc but I very rarely get round to doing it, I did find the whole 9 series of the X Files on one drive so I may convert them this year.

BernardCribbensUSA · **Joined:** Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:48 pm **Posts:** 186

Richard Head wrote:

I just upgraded to 2OO gig :uhoh:

You can easily fill a TB, I have mirrored TB Drives and i am at about %90 full. Gonna have to get another pair. I have a lot of fillums on mine, baring in mind 1 fillum is about 8gb in its original format once ripped. That way i dont have to put any dvd in my player i just pick them from a menu. If you can afford it i would definately recomend running 2 in a mirror so theres no chance of file loss.

tigro · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:26 pm

who needs to mirror them when you can get file recovery programs which work wonders :grin:

BernardCribbensUSA · **Joined:** Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:48 pm **Posts:** 186

tigro wrote:

who needs to mirror them when you can get file recovery programs which work wonders :grin:

Recovery software wont help you if you have a mechanical failure of the drive. Not unless you want to start stripping down a hardrive to individual plattens

Spender · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:55 am

I'm intrigued Mr CribbensUSA, how do you actually perform this process??

BernardCribbensUSA · **Joined:** Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:48 pm **Posts:** 186

Spender wrote:

I'm intrigued Mr CribbensUSA, how do you actually perform this process??

Do you mean mirroring drives or taking a hardrive apart to rebuild ??

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:37 pm

GroovyCrimes wrote:

500 gig under £60
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.203-0809.aspx

As good as anywhere else youre likely to find.

I've just got that one!!!! :coool:

stupoolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:05 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

GroovyCrimes wrote:

500 gig under £60
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.203-0809.aspx

As good as anywhere else youre likely to find.

I've just got that one!!!! :coool:

Good man Mutley :-o

you wont need to buy anymore space now, I would imagine. So all is good

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:54 pm

BernardCribbensUSA wrote:

Spender wrote:

I'm intrigued Mr CribbensUSA, how do you actually perform this process??

Do you mean mirroring drives or taking a hardrive apart to rebuild ??

sounds like we'd need to finally get the squirdly wirdler out of the toolbox for that job

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