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Looking for a megabargain, cheap external drive, preferably solid state and 500- 1Tgb.
Anyone spotted anything?
Hmmm, I would be interested as well as I need to back up a lot of stuff, mainly photos.
Cheap and SSD cannot be used in the same sentence. A 500GB SSD will cost you over £1000.
You can get a 1TB Seagate drive for £50.
'solid state' meaning RAM type of thing, as in, no mechanical whizzy turny round stuff yes?
yes, i too have a lot of 'photos' that need storing...
What's the big advantage of solid state for backing up stuff?
What's the big advantage of solid state for backing up stuff?
faster backup (perhaps unimportant) - otherwise somewhat lighter and more robust but far more expensive
I got a 2TB WD Elements external hard drive from Amazon today for £99. Backup running at 20MB/sec over USB
Pfft. eSATA is where it's at for speed.
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I'll do ya it fer £500 and i'll fro ya in a dag.
I'll send the ladz dan tomara to make a start.
HTH
eSATA is where it's at for speed.
mebbe so, but I've found it unreliable in the past 🙁
Sharki, not the sort of hard drive I was looking for, ta for the offer tho 😛 Was gonna ask about getting my pipes rodded, but perhaps not!
So, nobody seen any good deals around for a 500-1tb then? Pixum and Tesco best I've seen so far.