1 T External Hard Drive ?
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Maplins had a maxtor for about £70 a few weeks back.
But there is a samsung spinpoint in the bargin section of this forum for £75.
daveleebond
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I think he wants extenal, but he could buy a cheap caddy off eeebay+samsung for a fifteen quid more, since its a damn fine drive. Although I don't think 3gbs is possible through USB only 1.5.
What ports do you have on your desktop/laptop, esata, firewire?
What ports do you have on your desktop/laptop, esata, firewire?
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There are currently 5 Samsung Spinpoint F1 on 'super special' for £68.94 over at aria: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 SATA2 7200RPM 32MB cache - Aria PC
Pair with a SATA dock for £20.07: 3.5" & 2.5" SATA Docking Station - Aria Technology
or
a SATA caddy for £27.54: ICY BOX 351STUS Black HD Enclosure - Aria Technology
Pair with a SATA dock for £20.07: 3.5" & 2.5" SATA Docking Station - Aria Technology
or
a SATA caddy for £27.54: ICY BOX 351STUS Black HD Enclosure - Aria Technology
daveleebond
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Oh I forgot, Aria bang you with postage and have a crap returns service.
The thing I hate most about Aria is that you cannot buy it for that price from their shop/showroom (which is only 7 miles from me) and the stock figures are complete bollox. this I discovered when checking to see how many of an item they had left since said 5 on website, they said ,"hundreds we can change that figure when we want"
The thing I hate most about Aria is that you cannot buy it for that price from their shop/showroom (which is only 7 miles from me) and the stock figures are complete bollox. this I discovered when checking to see how many of an item they had left since said 5 on website, they said ,"hundreds we can change that figure when we want"
But everyone else is selling the 1Tb Spinpoint F1 drives for closer to £80...
I've never had a problem with Aria. Saying that, I've never had to use their returns service and more recently I've been using ebuyer for the most part (slightly cheaper on the most part and free postage on orders over £49.99).
I've never had a problem with Aria. Saying that, I've never had to use their returns service and more recently I've been using ebuyer for the most part (slightly cheaper on the most part and free postage on orders over £49.99).
I never had a problem with them either.............until I had to use their returns service. Believe me, you don't want to go there. :Angryfire
Needless to say, I never used them again. I value my sanity too much. :silly:
nephilim37
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Been looking at this one myself:
Toshiba 1TB External Hard Drive USB2.0 - Retail - Ebuyer
May order one over the next few days.
Toshiba 1TB External Hard Drive USB2.0 - Retail - Ebuyer
May order one over the next few days.
its for a dest top mate ...i have firewire and usb 2 ports...
the sammy sounds good as me mates just built a intel i7 dest top and he's well pleased.....
only thing is if i was get a spin point then ide have get a caddy for it and i donna what mess about ....
just whant one to plug in and away i go....
? what about a Western Digital 1TB My Book Studio Edition..only thing is there £150 lol bit to much for me ...
? if a got a sammy 1 T spin point what caddy would i need to buy and how much are there..
cheers for help
daveleebond
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All of the spinpoint range are internal only i believe. You may find a company that sells them in an enclosure but they will probably bump the price up, you can do it yourself so easily, it would be the cheapest option imo.
? right so if i was to get a sammy spin point would any caddy fit it.....pluss do we just open the caddy up and plug the drive in...
cheers for info
It's as easy as that. Plus a few screws to fiddle with. Make sure you buy a caddy that takes SATA drives.
Nope. But you need to make sure you get a caddy that matches one of the external connection methods on your motherboard; USB2, eSATA, firewire, ethernet (though that would more than likely be a NAS box).
Some caddies even have two connection methods (usually USB2 and eSATA). A note to make with eSATA is that it can struggle with SATA300 speeds and may need restricting at the drive to SATA150 (done via a jumper connection).
Some caddies even have two connection methods (usually USB2 and eSATA). A note to make with eSATA is that it can struggle with SATA300 speeds and may need restricting at the drive to SATA150 (done via a jumper connection).
cheers m8 but no thanks...
im looking ahead to when i build me next pc and i think a sammy spin points the way to go as i can just unplug it and take it to me mate house when needed and the read ups pritty good as they recon there as good as the raptor drive....
@ little _pod i have fire wire front and back , usb2 front and back, and the mobo has two sata pulgs on the mother board...
ill get a sammy spinpoint and then take it from there
cheers
