1000GB Hard Drive for under £100- any good?

weegie.geek

1TB really isn't all that much if you'd put your whole music/film collection onto the pc so you can stream it around your home network.

superjaggybunnet

Staples are also selling a 1TB drive for £99.99.

Might be an offer though so there may be a time limit.

harryharp

loaner wrote: »

If you have that much video/music/data to backup, you probably ought to get out more, before dataoverloaditis kicks in irreversibly, and life passes you by.

Well actually I do get out a lot, taking very high quality photographs which take up a lot of computer space...:rolleyes:

free4440273

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=12623931&postcount=38

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Bob63

amonra wrote: »

Just remember, that when you store all your data on one big single drive and it goes belly up, then you have lost THE LOT ! Sometimes it pays to invest in 2 X 500G drives for safety sake.

If you need 1TB of data then two 500GB drives won't help. I think what you mean is, don't ever keep just one copy of your data, ensure you have backups. This applies to any drive regardless of whether it is internal or external. And ensure you have backups right from the start as disks can fail when very new. Many computer products, disks included, exhibit failure rates which can typically be shown as a bathtub curve - very high failure rates when new, a sharp drop off which then shows a flat line of failures during a long period of the life of the product, then a steep climb in failure rates among older products. The steep sides and the flat bottom of the graph are why it gets its bathtub name.

savemoney

Regardless of usb, ide, sata, esata I would always back up any personnel data as you will loose it one day, I been there

I have two usb hard drives 250gb, 500gb and I keep backups on both and I also store data on dvdr.

The price you gave is tbh about normal price.

weegie.geek

But will that 20p DVD be readable in 5 years? I've got 2GB hard drive that still work. I don't have any CDR/DVDR even nearly that old that are readable, and I've pretty much always bought quality discs.

If you were to think of the CDs and DVDs you own in data terms, most people quite a lot, so if you want to make that all accessible without damaging the discs or without the effort of sorting through all your discs, you're looking at big hard drives.

I don't think it's a new concept either, this hoarding of media. Think about LP collections, stuff like that. At least now it's trivial to access the music/tv/film, trivial to back it up and trivial to transport it. Something the size of a VHS tape that can hold hundreds of films, thousands of albums, hundreds of thousands of photos.

I have to agree that people need to make more of an effort with data security. It's not fun ripping all your CDs and DVDs. Doing it twice... I'd just sit in the corner sobbing.

Antispam

I have dvdr's that are about 5 years I was a early adopter and not any problems so far I do use some old disks. I have cdrs that were burnt when only 1x cdr burner was out too