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External 500gb hard drives
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Depends what your definition of 'cheapo brands' is.
Some people regard Medion as 'Cheapo', and yet they're brilliant.
Others regard Dell as 'Cheapo', and in fact they are crap.0 -
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Indeed.
Exactly, how many hdd aren't made by WD, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor and Fujitsu anyway?
The very large number made by Samsung, for a start.
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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Im always against refurbished hard drives, its quite possible it would break down fairly quickly.
Let the lesson commence: Rik (the alien part clearly goes without saying), when using a contraction, such as "I'm" to stand for the longer "I am", it is necessary to use an apostrophe to mark the position of the missing letter - as indicated.
Be rude to my mother (flossy_splodge) again and I'll give you a different kind of lesson - one in manners, you ignorant oik.
:mad: :mad: :mad:
If at first you don't succeed, then sky-diving isn't for you0 -
What would actually have helped greatly the English comprehension - for aliEnRIK, me and everyone else for whom English is their mother tongue - when battling through your dire original posting would have been if you had not compressed it to the point of illiteracy.
Before you start offering to dispense lessons in grammar to anyone else, you would benefit considerably from taking one or two yourself, upon the subjects of punctuation and capitalisation and of how to space paragraphs and construct brackets coherently.
By the way, 2.5" USB drives in external enclosures often need to use two USB ports (in conjunction with a Y-lead), not one. The power from a single USB port can be insufficient if the enclosure is not connected to mains electricity or another external power source.
That's an important consideration if you are using a laptop that is not liberally equipped with USB ports.
Dear "Leopard",
Please grow up and stop attacking my mother for failing to add two commas to her post, which was designed to answer the questions asked by the OP - unlike the posts of others here, which I can only assume were the result of small children being allowed on the internet unsupervised.If at first you don't succeed, then sky-diving isn't for you0 -
Dear "Leopard",
Please grow up and stop attacking my mother for failing to add two commas to her post, which was designed to answer the questions asked by the OP - unlike the posts of others here, which I can only assume were the result of small children being allowed on the internet unsupervised.
Your mother, if indeed she be so - by which I am not casting any aspersions on your legitimacy but merely recognising that anybody could claim on here to be the daughter of anybody else - made an almost unintelligible posting on here that was littered with grammatical errors and compressed, effectively, into one incoherent paragraph.
flossy_splodge wrote: »There are two factors worthy of particular note.
1. There are 2 different types of external drives:a) 2.5 " and 3.5". The 2.5" are proper portable external drives in that they are powered through the 'bus' or usb port so you don't need a plug point ie mains power. The 3.5" ARE mains powered. So if for example you were going on a long train journey and the train did not have a power source but you wanted to back up your work as you travelled, then you need a 2.5" which you would plug into any USB port of your computer. If you are using it as a backup device eg in an office or at home and would not use it 'on the move' then get a 3.5". The reason I say this is that price per Gb is dearer for the 2.5" than the 3.5" irrespective of manufacturer.
2. There are two sorts of cooling systems inside. The older ones have a fan just like your computer so the whole device tends to be bigger and heavier oh yes, and noisier!!.The other system is cooled by conduction by being made of a material that conducts the heat away to the outside. I have it on good authority that the heat conducting system is better! You might like to get a range of opinions on this but the way I had it explained to me made sense.
If you go for a true 'portable' ie a 2.5" there is not that much variation in price but you can currently get 320Gb for about £60.
A downside to the 2.5" is that the maximum size available is less ie no 1Tb yet available in 2.5" but IS in 3.5".
Good luck!:rotfl:
It also contained a factual error that could have misled the OP.
She then launched into a totally unwarranted, arrogant and offensive attack on alEnRIK, in a blaze of lurid colours, culminating in (of all things!) offering to give him lessons in English comprehension.
The reply she got from me was thoroughly justified and, to be frank, a great deal less pointed than she deserved. Far more did she deserve the comment of albionrovers.
I admire your motive in seeking to defend the indefensible in regard to your illiterate and sarcastic mother but it is unfortunate that you yourself are insufficiently literate to comprehend the degree of her illiteracy (even if you think her offensive sarcasm was acceptable after what she, herself, had posted - which others clearly didn't - and share her desire to give grammar lessons to others in blissful ignorance of your own illiteracy).
The accuracy of your powers of assumption would seem to be something upon which you would be similarly unwise to rely.
Try posting yourself, however illiterately, something that would actually assist the OP.
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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Let the lesson commence: Rik (the alien part clearly goes without saying), when using a contraction, such as "I'm" to stand for the longer "I am", it is necessary to use an apostrophe to mark the position of the missing letter - as indicated.
Cheers for that
wow.....you learn somethin every day........:rolleyes::idea:0 -
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=337926&Tab=0&NoMapp=0
http://www.cheapdrives.co.uk/cheapestexternal
Hopefully rendered correctly for spelling, grammar and syntax! :eek:
:rotfl:
:cool:
TOG604!0 -
Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=337926&Tab=0&NoMapp=0
http://www.cheapdrives.co.uk/cheapestexternal
Hopefully rendered correctly for spelling, grammar and syntax! :eek: :rotfl:
:cool:
TOG
Jesus
2 hitachi 1TB drives!!
That IS a find.....:idea:0
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