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1Tb Backup hard drive – €119
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Just got notification of this by mail from Pixmania. 1 Tb external backup HD for €119 ain’t bad and they have a 640Gb for €76.
Considering there have been a few HD failures here lately including my own this might be a good time to invest. Of course, you might get them cheaper on Ebay from China… :roll:
Alan
I would rather buy two 640gb Western Digital drives… longevity and reliability are much more important values in hard drives than their price in my opinion.
I can understand that…but my failed HD of less than a year old was a WD. It doesn’t say what the brand of HD is and I wouldn’t expect the name on the case to be the manufacturer of the HD. You can pay for reliability but you are still int he lap fo the gods sometimes.
Alan
Pal in work had told me about these last week…
Closer to home and a few euro cheaper http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=363148
Was thinking about picking up one as my 500GB drive is almost full.
J
Just ordered one… was putting it off… but all these feckin TIFF files I’m creating… 50MB a pop… don’t be long in eating the ‘ol HD space.
€115 + €12.50 shipping.
Jeez, thats a great price.
I remember in the ol’ days ;), 1996 the company I worked for paying something like £1200 (irl punts) for a 1GB SCSI drive.
We’ve come along way thankfullyMate in work paid something like £200 old Irish Punts for a 32mb USB Key back in the day!
A sure I remember buying a 16k expansion board for my Sinclair ZX-81 for 50 punts in 1982ish :oops:
Fintan wrote:
A sure I remember buying a 16k expansion board for my Sinclair ZX-81 for 50 punts in 1982ish :oops:
:lol: I remember them – About half the size of a video cassette and if it moved you lost all your program…assuming you hadn’t spent 5 minutes saving it to your cassette recorder.
I can remember working in Waterford only 8 years ago and memory had hit one of those milestones – £1 per Mb ram…we couldn’t believe how cheap it had gone.
Heh. How about a 10MB hard drive for 600 punts? =) For the Amiga 500, that was.
As for the 1TB offerings, I’d strongly recommend going for the Samsung Spinpoint drive – I have two of them and find them wonderful – fast and quiet. Hopefully should have good longevity too. I paid just under 200 each for mine (bare drives, bought the enclosures seperately).
Cheers,
PeterSmething you just mentioned Peter about not having enclosures has triggered a thought – is there any advantage in having backup HD units internal rather than external? Obviously your unit will have to provide the utilities to support these drives and heat could be a problem but are they more reliable internal, or just purely convenient to have externally?
I’m not sure what was worse…
Loading games on my MSX 64K via a Cassette Player back in the late 80s…
or
Dial Up…
I think “Dial Up” cos the MSX also took cartidges which were pretty fast so tapes could be avoided…
Dial Up… if I ever had to go back to it I’d throw myself in the Slaney… horrible…
the best drives to buy at the moment are the seagates, they do an enterprise version, this is designed for server use and 24/7
the engineering is more heavy duty for want of a better way of explaining. you do pay for this but its worth it
be wary of cheap external drives as they use the cheapest drives you can buy in them, and quite often the cases are not engineered too well, ie for heat etc. and heat is what kills drives, not use.
I turn mine on once in a blue moon… run a backup… turn it off… so no major worries in terms of wear and tear.
Suppose it’s a bit of how you plan on using a drive that should help determine how many sponteros you should part with.
I have a 160GB yoke from yonks back and it still works fine… slow, always was… but does the job.
I suppose it’s also a case here of the Hobbyish v. the Pros…
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