1TB storage for £200 inc VAT

andreboyle

Lord_Chris wrote:

so what your saying is, get 4 hard drives and you get a TB of storage - wow, how did you realise that? did you get one of those new 'calculators'?

why waste our time with this?

Honestly, if you're going to be rude at least spell your words correctly. YOU'RE instead of YOUR would be a good place to start.

I personally don't see what's wrong with the post. Many people have plenty of spares bays in their PCs and are capable of using this without further purchases to reach the dizzy heights of 1 TB of storage.

Not everyone has SATA so these drives are useful and reasonably priced. They're not an absolute bargain admittedly but not bad all the same.

It's just a shame to see people on here being so damned negative instead of just ignoring what they're not interested in. Manners much come expensive these days as there seem to be fewer and fewer of them about.

CDR1122

With an extra 4 HD's running in your computer (along with on average 2xHDs, 1xDVD/RW, GFX Card) You'd probably need to invest in a more powerful Power Supply Unit too.

Nice try OP, just a shame everyone bashed you for your attempt..

Repo

A 250gb HD is only 238gb-ish when formatted so you'd be getting .952tb

/runs...

siliconbits

iainkirk wrote:

Well if you buy 7 x Seagate Barracuda 160GB UltraATA drives from PCWorld, you could have 1.12TB for £183.75. Collect only I'm afraid!

Then, if you buy 7no. (code 72253) drive caddies from eBuyer at £3.99 inc VAT each, you could put each one in it's very own handbag! (Plus delivery...) - they ARE a bargain by the way!!!!

Do I win??

LOL

The cheapest way to get to the TB barrier is through Ebay, grab as much SCSI disks as possible. But then, you will have to get a good enclosure. So at the end of the day, it is better to use four 250GB HDD

biglugs

TB1 for just £12.94 here

:T :rotfl: LMAO :rotfl::T


Not a useless post at all - I just can't think for now what I would use 1TB of space for? But if I did want it £200 is a pretty good price.

Samba_Pa_Ti

putting them all in raid or JBOD is the best way to link them (makes them look like 1 drive in windows, as the data is striped across every disk) getting the raid controller is the expensive bit though.

Coldfinger

The program for the Emergency Medical Hologram on Voyager consisted of over 50,000,000 gigaquads of data. How many drives is that and how long an IDE cable would I need?

The average machine will have two IDE channels with two drives on each. most people would want an optical drive in there so only need three hard drives.

siliconbits

Still lower if you use Quidco's 3% off at £191.24 inc VAT (£162.76+VAT)

CDR1122

Coldfinger wrote:

The program for the Emergency Medical Hologram on Voyager consisted of over 50,000,000 gigaquads of data. How many drives is that and how long an IDE cable would I need?

The average machine will have two IDE channels with two drives on each. most people would want an optical drive in there so only need three hard drives.

You can get IDE or RAID Controller Cards, which are a PCI based piece of kit and allow you to add another 4 IDE Drives.

CDR1122

posted twice for some reason..