Toshiba External SATA Hard Drive 320gb £39.99 Lidl

flashy

Thanks Jimbo, can't thank you enough for the heads up.

well i got out of bed early, turned up at my local Lidl waited, and walked (didnt run) in when they opened the doors..

me and........ the other 2 people!

one which ran straight to the bananas :j and the other who looked like he was about to nick some 11p bottles of lemonade!

Had a quick walk around, couldnt see them, so asked and the chap said they were locked away out the back, he asked how many i wanted, i said 2 and he came straight out with them.

Nobody else seen for miles after one, so if you want a Lidl bargain, you need to go early! rule of thumb.

They really are very nice, very light, come with a leatherette pouch and i copied 4.3gb to it within 2 minutes.

Regards

TehJumpingJawa

cruz99 wrote: »

Try comet. They are doing 10% off hard drives with code 10HD and some have free delivery

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/search.do?n=0&searchTerm=hard+drives

Theres a 500gb drive that comes to £40.49 with the discount

Just enter the code on the basket page before reserving or chosing delivery slot

Unfortunately they're 3.5" drives, so will require an ac adapter.

I don't think much to external 3.5" drives..... best thing to do with them is to get rid of their caddy & mount them inside your PC
(that's what I did with the 3.5" 500gb external seagate drives that Sainsburys were clearing for £20 :rotfl:)

The op's deal is fairly good; doesn't beat the 2.5" Freecom 400gb drives that PCWorld had on clearance @ £39.97 some time last year - but it's not far off.

flexrider

shame that the one comet is offering is not compatibale with mac machines gutted

cruz99

Do they not come with ac adaptors?

prowla

flexrider wrote: »

shame that the one comet is offering is not compatibale with mac machines gutted

Whaddya mean not compatible with a Mac?
If your Mac has USB2, then what's more to say?

Lütz_Pangaloo

I managed to get one of these today from the Rock Ferry store - I think they only had three!

I wanted it for storing movies and playing them with the USB port on my DVD player, so needed to reformat it FAT32 - easy and quick with freeware program FAT32FORMAT.EXE, needed because Windows won't allow you to use FAT32 on partitions bigger than 32GB.

Alias_Omega

A good price as too build one yourself would cost £45 ishy.

Only downfall is it not having a eSATA connection.


eSATA will be the future, as its ment to be a 1.5Gb/s transfer rate, far far faster than USB 2.0 if you have the connections available.