Which 1TB HD

donny-gal

Lorian wrote: »

The 1TB elements drive is excellent. Bought one when they were sixty something quid last week at pc world. It has one of the new eco/green WD drives, and is VERY quiet and is cool even when beng used flar-out writing for an hour.

I called in PCW yesterday on the off chance there was any left, but only had a wd book at round £98. I tried asking an assistance, but he hadn't a clue what I was talking about. Its £79.12 P&P free on line from them though, so may go that way.

DG

bookduck

I'd go for one of these http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-6510.aspx .My reasoning is cheapness

The strange bit is if you buy the bare drive, you mostly get a at lest a two year warranty, but some companied historically have gone to 5 years. Put it in your own box from ebuyer or ebay. The vast majority of the drives you see that are 1Tb in usb format give only a 1 year warranty.

[Deleted User]

donny-gal wrote: »

Its £79.12 P&P free on line from them though, so may go that way.

DG

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1991834153.1231070076@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadegdmiejgicflgceggdhhmdgmi.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=035562&category_oid=

£88.36... Am I missing something?

cfbc

donny-gal wrote: »

Do you think that Maplins store will price match to Amazon?

DG

No, they will not.. Tried it before a few times.. :rolleyes:

Sorry.

cfbc

Deleted_User wrote: »

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1991834153.1231070076@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadegdmiejgicflgceggdhhmdgmi.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=035562&category_oid=

£88.36... Am I missing something?

Order online and pick-up in-store.. :cool:

If you find it cheaper elsewhere online, print ot out and take instore also and try it on... Worth a go and nothing to lose, if not, just buy your reserved one!

:j

Leopard

donny-gal wrote: »

Yes it does concern me, which why I will be using it for a second backup, I travel a lot and it will be useful to be able to take everything with just one drive.

I do have firewire on the desktop, but not the laptop, so would prefer not to restrict the use.

Do you think that Maplins store will price match to Amazon?

DG

If you've got Firewire on your desktop computer, you are restricting your use if you buy an external hard drive which is USB2 only.

(Particularly if your desktop is a Mac, which has additional functionality - for example, "Target mode" - with Firewire external drives.)

You're also restricting your future use of the external drive if it hasn't got eSATA and/or Firewire 800 ports as well as USB2.

Lorian wrote: »

I just keep everything in two places. on two different disks.

Very wise. :T

donny-gal

You are losing me Leopard, is there a drive which has USB 2.0 and Firewire?

DG

donny-gal

bookduck wrote: »

I'd go for one of these http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-6510.aspx .My reasoning is cheapness

Unfortunately out of stock, the WD has 2 years manufacturers warranty.
DG

Millionaire

cfbc wrote: »

Does it not concern anyone to keep so much data on one drive that if it fails you have lost everything?

I use and keep three 250gb drives in case of that... Total around 750, but if one fails I lose a small amount of my photographs (will still hurt of course), but not all of them.

I do the same with my camera cards too.. Use 2gb even though I could use larger in case they fail....

But your still not "backing up" the whole purpose is to have more than one copy in case one is lost.

I don't understand this misconception of "backing up" where all people do is move data to a external hardrive/dvd/usb drive etc and that is the only copy they keep. That is NOT "backing up".

cfbc

Mill,

Do not worry... I do back-up, just did not post that as not really a topic of discussion here...

It's really how far you want to go down, like my camera when out taking piccies I use 2gb cards unlike my mate who uses 4gb and lost a whole days airshow once because his card was dropped on concrete and corrupted.. If he had used two 2gb's at least 1/2 would have been saved... That's my theory anyway, but then you could go to 4 x 1gb and so on...

Personally, I back up my photographs to an external hard drive and the ones I really want (like wedding) are also on a disc too and safely stored away in the house, just hope teh house does not burn down! :rolleyes:

I get your point though also and agree....