Anyone heard of CORE External Hard Drive?

DazedAndConfuzed

Hi all,

Maplin are selling a 1.5TB hard drive for £49.99 which seems to be an amazing price, but I'm hesitant as it's from a company called Core who I've never heard of.

Does anyone have any knowledge of them? Don't want to buy one and load it up with family photos, etc and then lose them all.

Cheers

:beer:

buyitall

I have a core portable hard drive, it has been fine so far. I bought it from zavvi, they also sell this brand at tesco.

dogmaryxx

http://194.150.201.35/cnmlifestyle/home.asp

DazedAndConfuzed

Thanks both, much appreciated. I got stung with a Seagate external drive last year, the price looked too good to be true and as it died on me after a week it turns out it was!

googler

No matter what brand of HDD, no matter how well-renowned they are, never ever put all your data in one place on one drive.....

bengalknights

I presume there just rebadging a OEM drive and caddy as there own brand, what you would want to know is what brand of hardrive is inside.

spannerzone

Core seem a bit cheaper than other drives but as already said they only badge another hard drive makers drive and there's only about 3 real hard drive manufacturers these days from what I've read.

Hard drive prices are going up due to flooding in Taiwan

http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/idINIndia-60086820111024

Get yours now!

Ximian

spannerzone wrote: »

Hard drive prices are going up due to flooding in Thailand

Fixed for you

It's true, retailers have increased prices around £20 or more for a 1TB drive. The Seagate factory has been flooded, demand, supply, etc.....

neilwoods

I know the 2 TB did use Western Digital, this was about 6 months ago. Whether they still do or what the 1.5 TB uses i don't know