Bargain at Maplins

[V6GTO]

Brought back a Seagate 300 Gig HD with me. Great value at £99:99.

Martin.

[joust]

~£70 at most places on-line

J

[Zad]

GTO missed out the important point that it is an external drive, so £100 is a better bargain than it appears.

Still,
Amazon have ATMT 300GB units at £89:99 inc delivery
Pixmania have 320GB WD units in at £85 (+£5:50 delivery)
Play.com have Buffalo 300GB units at £79:99 inc delivery

Hard drive prices do seem to be somewhat in freefall at the moment!

[V6GTO]

joust said:

~£70 at most places on-line

J

A fool and his money are easily parted

M.

[poah]

V6GTO said:

joust said:

~£70 at most places on-line

J

A fool and his money are easily parted

M.

it would seem so lol

[LongQ]

I bought the smaller Seagate from Maplins when they were cheap earlier in the year - 250Mb I think for about 80 quid then.

Used it a couple of times for large backup jobs. Now not working so must get around to returning it under warranty.

Not sure why it's not working but it seems to be the power interface. It is just possible that the wrong power supply has been plugged in at some point since the socket seems to be a common size. Something to watch out for.

When it worked it worked well and looked like good value for money.

I'm slightly reluctant to send it off since the backup will almost certainly be readable once the power problem is fixed and I have no way of zapping the drive. Also, at the price, it may not really be worth the effort. I may just pull it apart and see if the drive will work in another case - external cases offering USB2 and Firewire are available for just a few quid so that might be a less aggravating route to follow.

But still not a bad deal for the capacity whichever way you view it.

[JonRB]

LongQ said:

It is just possible that the wrong power supply has been plugged in at some point since the socket seems to be a common size. Something to watch out for.

I know this is a bit nerdy, but whenever I buy something that comes with a power supply or charger, the first thing I do it label it up with a Dymo to say what it is for. The rationalle being that when you unpack it is probably the first and last time that you'll 100% know what it is for.

[V6GTO]

Sounds like the type of thing a clever person does...obviously I've never even thought about it!

Martin

[LongQ]

JonRB said:

LongQ said:

It is just possible that the wrong power supply has been plugged in at some point since the socket seems to be a common size. Something to watch out for.

I know this is a bit nerdy, but whenever I buy something that comes with a power supply or charger, the first thing I do it label it up with a Dymo to say what it is for. The rationalle being that when you unpack it is probably the first and last time that you'll 100% know what it is for.

Yep. IN fact in this case there was absolutly nothing on the power supply to make a name link to the disk. But the main concern is that even if there was if you had an array of cables around for including one for, say, a Dell notebook or similar, the plug at the computer end supplying 19v is exactly the same size as and of and very similar appearance to the 12v supply for the disk. So potentially very easy to pick the wrong one without noticing it.

Which seems a bit unnecessary really.