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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2009, 08:58:08 AM » |
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I just bought a Freecom 1TB external USB drive after a recommendation by Tony. It's ace. Very quiet and looks great.
Does yours need to be portable? This probably wouldn't fit that bill
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2009, 09:06:29 AM » |
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Does yours need to be portable?
Not necessarily. I'll take a look. 1Tb may be overkill for my needs, but if freecom is reliable, I might look at others. ta |
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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2009, 01:01:10 PM » |
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I recently picked up a iomega 250gb portable hdd from Tesco for ~£40.
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2009, 02:24:13 PM » |
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Pretty sure Currys were doing a 1TB drive for around £70-80 recently.
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« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2009, 09:22:08 PM » |
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ebuyer have a Toshiba 1Tb for £69 at the minute
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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2009, 08:55:46 AM » |
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ebuyer have a Toshiba 1Tb for £69 at the minute
I bought a couple of those, they seem ok, but have an amazingly bright light - I think it's actually a xenon headlamp for the drive so it still works in the dark - I have them turned to face the wall I have 3 of these now, brought a couple of weeks ago, all good. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2009, 09:58:00 AM » |
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Grab a Coolermaster X-craft 360. USB2 and eSATA connectors, and completely tool-free installation. Just buy any drive you like, slam it in, and use it. When you want a bigger drive you just buy one and bung that in instead. Easy.
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Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2009, 11:14:12 AM » |
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Just buy any drive you like, slam it in, and use it. Should one be 'slamming' drives in??  |
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« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2009, 11:32:14 AM » |
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Just buy any drive you like, slam it in, and use it. Should one be 'slamming' drives in?? Hell yeah! Slam dunk 'em. 3 points, hang from the hoop. |
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Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2009, 05:38:31 PM » |
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You didn't slam it in did you?
/warranty
Ha! No. I've repackaged it ready to be collected by the lovely people at Ebuyer. Who, while I think about it, should have a returns policy that doesn't require spending half the day on the phone. Enough time in fact to drink something, have it filter all the way through, then need the loo, go to the loo, come back to the phone, and still be on hold! Gone for a refund while I figure out the best route to go. Nothing it seems, is ever simple. ory. |
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« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2009, 08:33:20 AM » |
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I thought Ebuyer had an online RMA system?
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« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2009, 09:01:17 AM » |
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I thought Ebuyer had an online RMA system?
I thought that as well, although when I returned a drive to Play.com I have to go via the phone. |
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« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2009, 11:27:51 AM » |
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I thought Ebuyer had an online RMA system?
Yep, it's completely automated. Right up until the point when you have to call them to get it 'authorised'. Complete waste of time. Never had to call anyone to return a product before. ory. |
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« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2009, 07:26:38 AM » |
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tool-free installation
That's handy, the tool usually phones me up to install it after they've tried plugging it in back to front. |
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« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2009, 09:32:52 AM » |
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The 1TB Toshiba drive has gone down to £69 now from ebuyer, have had three already... was 89 quid. http://bit.ly/11lrnJ |
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« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2009, 01:20:06 PM » |
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tool-free installation
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We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #22 on: May 31, 2009, 01:45:57 PM » |
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Ebuyer agreed there was a fault and refunded me. Now looking at http://drobo.comory. |
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« Reply #24 on: June 03, 2009, 09:36:58 PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2009, 11:01:33 PM » |
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looks very very good but a bit out of my price range i just got a 4oogb portable drive from play.com for £65 and they even sent me two  |
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« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2009, 09:43:09 PM » |
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« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2009, 10:09:03 PM » |
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Not believing sh1t got modded to "poo" - blimey Still says poo here. You must be on the junior membership  There's a setting in you profile options to turn hand-holding off. |
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« Reply #28 on: June 05, 2009, 07:40:43 AM » |
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Not believing sh1t got modded to "poo" - blimey Still says poo here. You must be on the junior membership Of course the swear filter would still auto-mod any attempt at writing the apparent word |
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Not believing sh1t got modded to "poo" - blimey Still says poo here. You must be on the junior membership Of course the swear filter would still auto-mod any attempt at writing the apparent word Only when showing it to the junior members |
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