External 400Gb hard disk £140

IvanOpinion

Thought this was a good deal from PC World External 400Gb hard disk

• Packard Bell - Store and Save
• 3.5" External Hard Drive
• Massive 400Gb Storage Capacity
• 7200 rpm Spindle Speed
• 8Mb Buffer Cache
• Slim and Compact Design
• Silent Operation
• Lightweight and easily transportable
• Includes Data Secure Backup Software

Also saw a 300Gb one for under £100 somewhere but can not for the life of me find it again.


Ivan

GibsonSt19

That's very good value I must say!

talkshop

That seems to be an unbeatable price.

You can pay more than that just for an internal 400GB drive.

raeble

IvanOpinion wrote:

Also saw a 300Gb one for under £100 somewhere but can not for the life of me find it again.


Ivan

That was probably the amazon one. I heard that they've put a fiver on the price.

resusdoc

This Seagate is 250GB for a shade under £90:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=105774

My personal experience of Ebuyer (a Sheffield outfit) has only been good, though I read that others have more variable experiences.

My personal experience of PC world has not been so good.

Segated is a good make though.

oranabana

talkshop wrote:

That seems to be an unbeatable price.

You can pay more than that just for an internal 400GB drive.

Specs say its USB - no good if you need this for video editing ;-(
just thought I point this out....

IvanOpinion

The problem with eBuyer and others is the cost of postage ... especially when off shore (adds about £20 to the cost)

A quick technical note remember that these big drives may only format to approximately 131Gb. If this happens you may need a piece of software, a new hard disk controller or better still simply to paritition the drive.

Ivan

talkshop

oranabana wrote:

Specs say its USB - no good if you need this for video editing ;-(
just thought I point this out....

Isn't USB2 faster than firewire ?

dc2447

oranabana wrote:

Specs say its USB - no good if you need this for video editing ;-(
just thought I point this out....

Now that is a statement and a half. This means that the IO of the disk is faster than USB2 to such an extend as to slow down video editing.

Personally I think it is a cracking deal

Aiadi

PC World and Curry's are the same company, aren't they? Don't have a PC World near me, so checked Curry's and found

PACKARD BELL
STORE AND SAVE
EXTERNAL 400GB HARD DRIVE
Currys Price

£229.99 !! :T

Would Curry's pricematch PC World price if the PC World store is about 40 miles away?

talkshop

"low speed" USB device transfers data at 1.5 megabits per second.
"full speed" USB device transfers data at 12 megabits per second.
"high speed" USB device transfers data at 480 megabits per second.

Firewire =400 megabits per second.



Make sure it a USB-2 High Speed device to get the full speed, which would make it faster than Firewire.