Best Price for Lacie external drives?

jellyfish76

I'm looking to back-up my mac and was planning on getting

LaCie 250GB 7200rpm USB2 Firewire Extreme II 8MB with cables

I've had a look through price comparisons sites and dabs seems to be the cheapest at £125.

Does anyone know of anywhere cheaper, or promo codes- or any experience of this product (don't ask much, so i?)

cheers jelly

BoltonMinx

There is a ciao review here: http://www.ciao.co.uk/Reviews/LaCie_d2_Hard_Drive_Extreme_with_Triple_Interface_250_GB__6371560

fguk

Products from Lacie are generally ok, I would imagine this will be similar. Nothing outstanding, just works.

Try

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/97011

This would be £125 including VAT and Standard Delivery

I dont know if you factored delivery into your DABS number.

DABS do have a much better reputation for CS than Ebuyer, but personally I have never had a serious problem with them (some very minor, but they were fixed quickly).

IvanOpinion

You should be able to get 250Gb for under £100 ... I think even PC world had one AT £79.99 the other week. I have had problems with LaCie in the past, I could have been unlucky but they showed little interest in trying to help me. A colleague in work has the LaCie 250 and he thinks it is the greatest thing since sliced HP sauce.

[Edit] here is the one I was thinking off although the price might be collect@store (but then you might be able to get it today)

Ivan

jpe20

Try this site ....
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/857848/Maxtor_Onetouch_II_300GB_External_Hard_Drive/Product.html

Its a 300GB maxtor for 109quid inc. del.

Or this for 100quid its USB2 though ...
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/881254/LaCie_250GB_USB2_Porsche_Hard_Drive/Product.html

HTH

Jules

wadewade

How important is the size of the cache? Consider two Seagate models, as follows:-

Seagate 250gb USB2 7200 8 MB cache £70 at dabs.com
Seagate 250gb USB2 7200 16 MB cache £99 at savastore.

Is it worth looking for one with a 16 MB cache?

jpe20

I would imagine cache size is irrelavant if you are using the drive as a backup device.

Otherwise I would imagine it would make some difference but being 29quid cheaper I personally would go for the 8MB model.

See the overclockers.co.uk forums on hard disks, they have a few people in there who "know" things!!

HTH
Jules

jellyfish76

thanks for your feedback, i'm definitely looking for back up with both firewire and usb2 though