Ninehigh
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| posted on 27/1/12 at 05:31 PM |
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External hard disc
Had a few problems with mine today, which points to early signs of "fubarred"
So I'm looking for another.
I have a 250gb 2.5" one in a caddy, so a straight replacement (or larger capacity) is highly doable. However I'm not going to rule out a
bigger one if the price is favourable. Second hand or refurb is a possibility for a similar sized one as hopefully I won't need it much
longer
I've had a look around a few sites, just checking if there's anywhere I should or shouldn't go to. Budget is, well zero really!
Thanks for any suggestions 
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blakep82
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| posted on 27/1/12 at 05:41 PM |
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i always find misco.co.uk quite good, but the warehouse isn't far away so i can collect. delivery is about £5 normally.
i think prices are still quite high since japan and its neighbours got washed away last year 
i bought a 600GB laptop hard disc, western digital, caviar blue (i think) SATA disc, about £36 i think? now about £90...
i bought something from misco last week, didn't work how i wanted it to (wifi range extender) took it back to order another one, the girl there
said i'd be better ordering it on amazon, she was right. so try amazon
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HowardB
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| posted on 27/1/12 at 06:34 PM |
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ebuyer 1TB was silly money £60 or so,....
best offer at the moment,...
hth
[Edited on 27/1/12 by HowardB]
Howard
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britishtrident
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| posted on 27/1/12 at 07:12 PM |
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Open it up and check the ribbon cable is firmly pushed home at both ends, external cases are very prone to the cables coming loose.
if you buy a replacement it is best to buy one that has an ethernet connection as well as USB.
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sjmatthews
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| posted on 27/1/12 at 11:32 PM |
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Why not upload to a cloud?
PC world have cloud offers that are cheaper than the cost of external drives, or there's plenty of free space on offer out there. If
you've got a Hotmail account, they'll give you 250 GB free with SkyDrive (what I've done) easy too.
I'll be in the garage dear!
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 28/1/12 at 07:24 PM |
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Well, it's dead. That all to familiar clicking and both windows and linux refusing to acknowledge anything more than "it's a usb
device"
So final question. Often when I plug things in the laptop tells me the device can perform faster if I plug it into a usb2 slot. It then goes on to
tell me that I have one of these, but given that I have 3 ports, and I get that popup with all of them I reckon someone's lying.
So will this one work
given that it's usb3?
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 28/1/12 at 08:31 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by sjmatthews
Why not upload to a cloud?
PC world have cloud offers that are cheaper than the cost of external drives, or there's plenty of free space on offer out there. If
you've got a Hotmail account, they'll give you 250 GB free with SkyDrive (what I've done) easy too.
Aha I have one of them, it says I have 25GB though... Would it be a typo on your part or is there something I have to do (although 3 would love me
trying to download 25gb!)
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