External 500gb hard drives

Moneymaker

In case it's worthy of consideration, Seagate drives come with a 5 year manufacturer's warranty. This may apply to Maxtor drives, too, since Seagate now owns Maxtor, but please check.

verbyl.belch

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

Unfortunately it's been mispriced and they've changed it, now at £254. I've just had a phone call informing me that my order has been cancelled. Oh well it was worth a go, I thought it might slip through.

verbyl.belch

It would have been an awesome way of riding out the credit crunch....

aliEnRIK

verbyl.belch wrote: »

Unfortunately it's been mispriced and they've changed it, now at £254. I've just had a phone call informing me that my order has been cancelled. Oh well it was worth a go, I thought it might slip through.

haha

Good try mate

free4440273

Originally Posted by tali
Is there actually any hard proof that the cheapo brands will break down?

I suspect not actually; I've never been particularly impressed with the likes of Western Digital (Mybook) eg. even the huge 500/750 GB drives they sell do not even have an on/off power switch - things like that matter to me (perhaps it's personal lol:)

Sssssss

ok don't laugh but someone locally to me is selling a
Advance external hard drive 2.5 USB and wait for it with 40Gb (yes folks 40 it's not a typo)
Now for my needs it's okay I'm tempted to buy it but they want me to make an offer on price, any suggestions what I should offer?
cheers.

flossy_splodge

Obviously all any person replying here can do is offer an opinion, but that being so, is the drive a 'second user'? If you look further up this thread I think there are a couple of posts about the possible danger of pre used or even refurbished drives.
If it were me and I was happy the drive was likely to be reliable then I guess I would offer about £15 to £20 max.
Hope this helps.:o

superjaggybunnet

PC World were advertising a 1 TB drive on TV last night for £79 or thereabouts.

That is pretty cheap!

flossy_splodge

Leopard wrote: »

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.

I think you are wrong but in any case, my posting was only incoherent to the ill educated.


It also contained a factual error that could have misled the OP.

In all seriousness, please tell me what this was as I am not aware of offering inaccurate advice. Could you explain what was inaccurate as I would genuinely like the possibility of enlarging my knowledge base. Thanks

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.

My 'attack' was not, in my opinion, unwarranted but was quite possibly excessive. I get fed up with clever dicks jumping in and 'correcting' others in an unnecessarily arrogant manner, rather than just offering their own differing opinion. That's all that's needed really.

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.

This just makes me howl with laughter. jojo2004 is indeed my offspring (by the way, what on earth would you think there was to gain from making such a claim untruthfully? Anyway, the point is, jojo2004 is just completing a PhD in a branch of Linguistics having attended both Oxford and another Redbrick Uni and has to date a 1st class honours, a Masters and now shortly a PhD and is known literally worldwide for her work. For you to cast aspersions on the language skills displayed is enormously amusing. Thanks. Gave me a much needed chuckle.

Try posting yourself, however illiterately, something that would actually assist the OP.

Sort of full circle re jojo2004's point about my original posting.
I apologise for my acid tone to alienrik but I believe it to have been prompted by the tone of his posting. If he merely does not know how to post in any other way then I'm sorry if I misunderstood his intention.:eek:

aliEnRIK

flossy_splodge wrote: »

Sort of full circle re jojo2004's point about my original posting.
I apologise for my acid tone to alienrik but I believe it to have been prompted by the tone of his posting. If he merely does not know how to post in any other way then I'm sorry if I misunderstood his intention.:eek:

Its the internet flossy
I post on here to help others to the best of 'my' knowledge. If someone posts something I feel is wrong then I say as such (In fact ive gone into full blown arguments with people who are clearly wrong)

In terms of what you put, your advice was to get the cheapest of whatever the OP chooses. BUT.....that could turn into 'false economy' if the drive breaks down if they chose cheap c*ap. My grandads into cheap as hell stuff and nearly ALWAYS gets bitten for doing so. I think he has 2 dead external hard drives upto now and he barely even uses them! (Ss I get hiim to buy a decnt one and I dont think hes EVER used it )


Anyways, its reet
I certainly aint going to lose sleep over it