Gericom 250Gb External Hard Drive At Aldi [CLOSED]

mak_attack

hi,

thanks.

so for 75% mac use / 25% xp use this drive should be fine? i will store data on it. and read files from it. the main editing of work will be on internal hdd of computer.

£100 for 250gb seem

thanks.

skysnapper

Picked it up last night

Build quality feel quite nice and solid and not cheap.
Runs quite warm rather than hot but no more than expected for a 7200rpm hard drive, so thats good.
Easy to install.
Pretty quiet but then again the drive is a segate which are very good and quiet drives.
Probably also why it has a 3 year warranty as i think seagate are one of the few manufacturers now who offer this.

Can't speak for the transfer rates at the moment, as my drive is so full and badly fragmented.

Theoretical speeds are advertised as 15 mb/s or 900 meg a minute which isn't too bad.

matty66

bought mine today friday pluged into my mac ibook guess what? nothing happens! expecting an icon on desktop maybe. no mac driver on software cdrom so thats no help gericom web is all deutch to me. i guess the helpline on monday is an option. Does show up in system profiler tho. any mac users had any joy? paperwork does mention mac but box indicates mac compatability. have a feeling this will be going back to aldi soon. hey ho.

pre-reg

does anyone think i will be able to get one tommoro at aldi? Once again i think i have been too slow.

mak_attack

i have a mac and wanted to get the aldi hdd. will it work with a mac yes or no?

thanks,

shrek101

It says in the manual that you need mac 9x but recommend 10. Mac 9x and card reader wont work.

mak_attack

thanks shrek101,

i have osx so should be fine? it should recognise straightaway? card reader will work?

thanks,

shrek101

If anyone wants the manual PDF PM, I give them the url I send it to my web space, Its only 650kb

MyUserNamesTaken

pre-reg wrote:

does anyone think i will be able to get one tommoro at aldi? Once again i think i have been too slow.

Pre, you could well manage to get one today, but it depends entirely upon where you are in the country. All I can suggest is that you give it a go.

Odd_Fellow

NTFS was introduced along with Windows NT (3 I think, so it's far from new). It stands for NT Filing System as far as I'm aware. It's more secure than FAT.