Seagate 250GB External HDD £95.46 Delivered

Mecoconuts

External Seagate 250GB Hard Drive is only £95.46 delivered.

The very nice enclosure is USB2 & Firewire wire which lets you daisy chain them or connect 2 pcs to it at the same time.

It's here :

http://www.misco.co.uk/HPSinfo/~510295~WW~/Seagate%20250GB%20Hard%20Disk%20Drive%20with%20Enclosure.htm

MORPH3US

Does it come built up and ready to go or does it come as 1 x hard drive and 1 x external casing and you have to put them together yourself!??!

M

Mecoconuts

MORPH3US wrote:

Does it come built up and ready to go or does it come as 1 x hard drive and 1 x external casing and you have to put them together yourself!??!

M

I reckon it comes seperate as it state's it as a 'bundle'.

You could put in any hard drive in you want and i doubt it's hard to put together.

zipper501

Does the enclosure take any bog standard drive? as I have one here and I can't mesure 3.5" on it in any direction.. Thanks,

BritBrat

Does the enclosure take any bog standard drive? as I have one here and I can't mesure 3.5" on it in any direction.. Thanks,

Look's like it does to me, but not sure I would buy a Seagate drive!

zipper501

I think I found out why I can;t mesure it, it's nothing to do with actual size...

"Like the 5.25" form factor before it, the 3.5" form factor is named not for any dimension of the drives themselves, but rather for the fact that they were designed to fit into the same drive bay as 3.5" floppy disk drives"

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/formIn35.html

calvinf

If it is separates, then I would recommend getting the 250GB LaCie external hard drive from ebuyer - I've got one for backing up data (use in conjunction with Windows XP Powertoy for syncing data) and it works fine...it's only £100.79 delivered:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=62833

There are quite a few 250GB drives around at the £100 mark, but I like the design of the LaCie...

gavinp

I would suggest holding off purchasing for a week until this is released and reviews are available:

http://www.netgear.co.uk/digital_home_sc101.php

Thanks

Gavin

Curry_Queen

gavinp wrote:

I would suggest holding off purchasing for a week until this is released and reviews are available:

http://www.netgear.co.uk/digital_home_sc101.php

Thanks

Gavin

That would suit my needs perfectly so looking forward to reading more about it and <gulp> finding out the price

carled

£75-ish plus costs of hard disk drive(s) you put in it.
http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ShopGroupID=76&CategoryID=252&ProductID=2224

RufusA

If you are technically minded and don't mind a challenge, look at the Linksys NSLU2.

I picked one up the other week from Amazon for just over £50, with an external 250GB WD drive for £100. The NSLU2 has an ethernet port and 2 usb ports so you can easily share an external HDD or USB stick over the network.

However the clever bit is that someone has "hacked" the NSLU2 and discovered it runs linux from flash memory. So they have found a way of using it as a low cost linux box, producing a revised flash, and packages you can install. There is now a large community compiling / developing stuff for it:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

On mine I've shared my 250gb drive, got a small webserver so that I can stream files to my netgem iPlayer (mp3 and video), have a print server running so I can print on my Samsung laser from any pc in the house, and can even download bit*cough*orrent files directly to the HDD without switching a single PC on. Even overclocked it so that it runs at twice the speed.

It's a bit fiddly to set up, and isn't the fastest box in the world for transfering files (I barely scrape much about 4MB/s - 1GB in 5 mins on 100baseT), but a nice little hobby even if you don't know linux.

HTH - Rufus.