500GB media tank £39.99 +p&p NOW £49.99 +p&p

w123kid

got an email saying my order will be processed withing 5 days as a lot of demand. ordered same day as OP

silps

Just got my 500GB Mediasix hard drive. It is pre-formatted in NTFS so worked straight out the box in Vista. I am impressed with it and googling the code number for the drive that is showing in the hardware tab of properties, shows it is a Seagate and a very good one at that: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=4f5f99f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-US

The enclosure has a fan which although it is quite, it is audible to me because my Dell PC is near silent. Tried the media card reader as well and it works fine. Casing does get quite hot.

I am using Vista and whenever I try to safely remove the hard drive I get a message saying drive is in use (and no it is not in use). How can I get it to remove before switching it off?

tonysat

I work in a PC support role and am only using XP but I do get this problem, or a very similar one, occasionally with usb storage devices. Sometimes the message goes away if I wait long enough, other times not. If I'm sure there is no drive activity and all the writing has finished, I just disconnect the device. I've never had a problem doing this, but don't know if it would cause any issues with Vista. If not, then I guess it's just one of those things we put up with.

akwaaba

Delighted with it, been meaning to do another backup of my pictures and stuff. Worked straight out of the box!

xoleeb

I checked my credit card statement this morning to find that amazon had billed me twice for this - once on 3rd May and again on 5th May - My order history shows definately only one ordered...

dc

My £30 500gig with card reader arrived today, well chuffed. Thanks

Mike54_2

crazyspaniels wrote: »

thanks, just what I needed, saved me hunting about :beer:

out of stock now? =[

adouglasmhor

Got it up and running in linux with no extra drivers - it went plug and play then I had to mount the HD 1st time through terminal command line and that was it.

tmb2000

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Got it up and running in linux with no extra drivers - it went plug and play then I had to mount the HD 1st time through terminal command line and that was it.

Unlike previous hard drives I'm having aproblem my XP PC found new hardware but I still can't see the HDDrive - what do you mean when you say "mount via terminal line"?

Someone please help! It looks a great drive but I can't use it I can see the card drives but not the HD?

If I ever get it working thanks to OP and any hints on what I need to do

Cheers

mealmond

Great offer.

Mine worked straight from the box, in both Vista and Unbuntu.

Just plugged in and the computer found it straight away.

No problems with any noise.

Just done a couple of copies of DVD's and it was perfect.

Thanks very much to the orginal poster, great find.

:j