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£111 for usb2 , 7200RPM,300gb!
£111 for usb2 , 7200RPM,300gb!
300gb external HD
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Not bad - although I think I got mine off eBay for £90 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-USB-External-Portable-300GB-Hard-Drive-UK_W0QQitemZ8791311239QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Well useful, use it for all my media, which streams to the xbox
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-USB-External-Portable-300GB-Hard-Drive-UK_W0QQitemZ8791311239QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Well useful, use it for all my media, which streams to the xbox
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What about this one, same spec as above, but £89.99...
http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/sto...ge=Product&sku=567856&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null
http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/sto...ge=Product&sku=567856&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null
I think i may have to purchase one of those soon, my laptop doesnt have the biggest hard drive dont know whether i want 300GB though seems a bit overkill for me!
dont know whether i want 300GB though seems a bit overkill for me!
christopher watson said:
thats not a usb plug and play one is it?
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Exactly - close, but no cigar CWBob in disguise said:thats not a usb plug and play one is it?
Bob in disguise said:thats not a usb plug and play one is it?
Sorry, didnt realise you could get different ones, i thought 300gb was sort of universal
(you can tell that i dont know about computers )
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Lol - I currently have 900gbBob in disguise said:
And have recently acquired ANOTHER 160Gb SATA-150 to add, but having trouble installing it
may have to jig around all my drives, and put on another partition :chin:You can never have enough storage :slayer:
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just jam it in/lever it out.it will be fine
My server needs a HDD upgrade. Want to RAID 1 2x 40GB and then RAID 0 a few 250s as they're the cheapest gb/£ currently.
Here is my reccomendation - it looks like Lego :slayer:
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=6227&category_id=114&manufacturer_id=0
Here is my reccomendation - it looks like Lego
:slayer:http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=6227&category_id=114&manufacturer_id=0
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I have the space, even got a spare SATA power cable...custard boy said:just jam it in/lever it out.it will be fine
But it is my drive set-up :chin:
I have my 160Gb boot drive, partitioned C & D, on the IDE-133 channel, so goes through the Promise Array [a single stripe]; the 2*120Gb SATA-150 drives, partitioned G, are striped in a RAID 0 array, again through Promise - and the external 300Gb, partitioned H & I, is not an issue [USB/firewire options].
So the new drive has to go through the on-board SATA controller - but it needs formatting, and is a boot drive from the 'other' server. I can't seem to configure BIOS to not see it as a boot-drive :bang: , really annoying. It may be my mobo, which defaults to that channel first, before the IDE-133 one.
Ah well, will have a fiddle.......
Hellcat said:My server needs a HDD upgrade. Want to RAID 1 2x 40GB and then RAID 0 a few 250s as they're the cheapest gb/£ currently.
Here is my reccomendation - it looks like Lego
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=6227&category_id=114&manufacturer_id=0
Hellcat, they're just up the road from me... I've been buyin all my hardware from them for years... well recommended (oh and some of my mates work there)
EDIT: disregard previous question, just sen a 500gb, think that's the max.
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Seraph said:
Discount for a friend of a friend and a lloyal customer of 7 or 8 years?
hehe.. chance would be a fine thing... no discount for a friend, and loyal customer for 7 or 8 yrs.Hellcat said:Discount for a friend of a friend and a lloyal customer of 7 or 8 years?
gutted....I should play the "stuck by you through your times on leeds road, when you customer service was even worse than it is now!
actually, they aren't bad for customer service now, got some guys that know their sh't. Shame that when you actually go to the counter, you can be waiting for your goods for a long time, even if it's just one pissy network card.
Yes, wern't they on Leeds road in Tong then they moved to Tong road in Leeds - or something like that...
Their forum is pretty good. They've managed to get a few items in which I requested although they're still more expencive for cases than another site I've found. Especially server cases.
Their forum is pretty good. They've managed to get a few items in which I requested although they're still more expencive for cases than another site I've found. Especially server cases.
Hellcat said:
yea, some stuff is over priced...
They were in on Leeds Road in Bradford before... now they're on Bradford Road in Tong... near enough...
I choose between them and somewhere else if i'm buying pc hardware, including cases and such.. the other place is www.komplett.co.uk they're swedish, and so far have been excellent.
Seraph said:
Do they sell pump action enlargers?
www.x-case.co.uk is where I got my server case with sliding rails for £110 :worship: and my friend got a very sexy Antec Plusview for £50 :slayer:
Hellcat said:Do they sell pump action enlargers?
Little off-topic, but you have no idea how offensive that comment alone is to Swedish people... I got a right verbal bashing from a group of both guys and girls for making a porn related joke about the Swedish...
One girl in particular went proper ape (this was at a table in a bar witha bunch of us sat round chatting) and she starts raising her voice and is like...
"well you know what British guys are associated with... being crap in bed"
"fair do's, c'est bon chance que je suis francaise nest pas?"
There was no need for personal insults.
And i'll be sure to remember that X-case place, I'm sure I'll update some time in the next 6 months.
There has been a big price war with these HDD's over the last couple of months, all the usual suspects seem to be doing them for around a ton.
Samsung have a 32GB flash chip thingie which they are going to use in rows in laptops as the power consumption is a lot less so expect that medium to get bigger and bigger hence the pricedrop in traditional drives.
I got a bit from CCL the other week, choose the ultra economy delivery option and it turned up 5 days before I expected it, impressive!
Liam
Samsung have a 32GB flash chip thingie which they are going to use in rows in laptops as the power consumption is a lot less so expect that medium to get bigger and bigger hence the pricedrop in traditional drives.
I got a bit from CCL the other week, choose the ultra economy delivery option and it turned up 5 days before I expected it, impressive!
Liam
