GOOD 250GB External Hard Drive - £84.99

rdwarr

We've seen a few external drives on offer recently but this Seagate model from eBuyer seems to have it all.
It offers 7200rpm speed coupled with an 8MB cache and comes complete with the highly-rated BounceBack backup software.
Delivery is extra; the amount depends on how fast you want it.

You get awesome warranty service from Seagate - a while ago I returned a friend's 60 Gig HDD - over a year old though installed less than a year - it was quickly replaced with an 80 Gig unit! The Seagate website has details of the returns procedure.

rdwarr

...Price is now £83.99. Plenty of stock in (only gone down by 20 this morning).

Poppycat

Ebuyers prices seem to flucturate depending on demand.

bwblackett

Has anyone come across a cheap external drive which can be put on a network rather than being connected to a PC ?

Brian.

Poppycat

Aria have one in stock I saw it last night Brian.

gromituk

bwblackett wrote:

Has anyone come across a cheap external drive which can be put on a network rather than being connected to a PC ?

You might consider buying a Linksys NSLU2. It's also got a group of hackers who've turned it into a mini Linux computer!

Vintage67

Amazon have the Western Digital 250GB NetCenter for £113.12 which is a lot less than I've seen it elsewhere. It can be used as a printserver too.

owtbar

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=17412980474&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=106031


Iomega 33548 250GB USB2.0 7200rpm External Desktop Silver Series - Retail Box
£67.22
£78.99 inc VAT

511 in stock

Usually ships same day

Quickfind code: 106031

Mfr #: 33548

gromituk

That is not what is required - it only has a USB interface so cannot attach to a network, merely a computer. But you could attach it to a network via the device I mentioned earlier.

joshm_2

Worth pointing out that the NLSU-2 (or slug as it is affectionately known) uses a unix file system that is incompatible with windoze. That is, you wouldn't be able to unplug the USB drive from the slug and plug it straight into a windows PC (well, you would but no data would be recognised).

gromituk

Apparently it supports NTFS on ONE of the ports with the latest firmware. If you have to format your other drive with something else (like ext3), you can get free drivers for Windows which will recognise this. Awkward, I know, as you won't be able to plug the drive into any old Windows PC.