1000 GB External HDD £79. 99 each @ Aldi* £79.99

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  dxx3 years, 10 months ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  dcx_badass

  Wrong section and it's a bad deal anyway, mine was only £63 about 6 months ago.

  
  
  Oh, did you go for that Tesco Direct Iomega 1TB drive as well?
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  maxmax3 years, 10 months ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  Sorry For Wrong section...Im New To this,
  Will Get There In The End.
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  Shengis3 years, 10 months ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  dcx_badass

  Nope my dad got the Western Digital from Currys for £63, but it was the last one, comet next door price matched and did me the 1TB maxell one for the same price, we got them in January or Febuary.

  
  
  And it had an eSata connector or just USB?
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  johncas3 years, 10 months ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  I bought 4 of these a few months back at the same price, I'm guessing it is the same product in which case the actual drives are Western Digital with 16mb cache (Not got the model number to hand).
  
  Pretty good value considering if one of them fails within 3 years I can shove it back in the enclosure and get a replacement from Aldi..
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  buju2473 years, 10 months ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  Yeah i can't get my head around these x years guarantees for HD's if i have to claim a refund it will mean i will have lost stuff which is worth more to me than eighty odd quid.
  I've never had a HD fail on me except 3 months ago. that was a western digital. so never again for me.
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  niceguyrichy3 years, 10 months ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  buju247

  Yeah i can't get my head around these x years guarantees for HD's

  
  if the drive in question costs a few hundred quid to start with it absolutely makes sense.
  and btw, if you got 80£ to throw around cos you aint bovvered by a warranty , throw it this way, I'm skint.. ;-)
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  Uridium3 years, 10 months ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  buju247

  Yeah i can't get my head around these x years guarantees for HD's if i have to claim a refund it will mean i will have lost stuff which is worth more to me than eighty odd quid.
  I've never had a HD fail on me except 3 months ago. that was a western digital. so never again for me.

  
  
  that's what backups are for.
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  spionkop3 years, 10 months ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  Bad deal, same drive (1Tb Western Digital) here (Amazon) is £11 cheaper:
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/444298/western-digital-elements-1tb-usb-2-
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  Johnmcl73 years, 10 months ago #9Show comment toolsReply

  spionkop

  Bad deal, same drive (1Tb Western Digital) here (Amazon) is £11 cheaper:
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/444298/western-digital-elements-1tb-usb-2-

  
  
  No e-sata though, that's well worth the extra money if you have a suitable port - this is the cheapest esata drive I've seen.
  
  John
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  gogosteve3 years, 10 months ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  Hot for e-Sata capability!
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  maxmax3 years, 10 months ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  spionkop

  Bad deal, same drive (1Tb Western Digital) here (Amazon) is £11 cheaper:
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/444298/western-digital-elements-1tb-usb-2-

  
  
  No warranty with This So This Is A Bad Deal.:whistling:
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  buju2473 years, 10 months ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  Uridium;5805988

  that's what backups are for.

  
  
  so i back up my C drive data onto this, and then i back up the data on this onto another HD just so i'm backing up. dont we just go round in circles?
  
  yeah its great to get £80 quid back for a failed hard drive although in English law we have a 6 year guarantee anyway.
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  RyCha3 years, 10 months ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  buju247

  so i back up my C drive data onto this, and then i back up the data on this onto another HD just so i'm backing up. dont we just go round in circles?

  
  
  Not at all, the backup of your C drive should be taken to an external USB drive or eSata drive which is then powered down and physically moved to a different location. No need to backup the backup unless you're using the backup drive for other means (which is not recommended in any backup strategy and negates the whole thing). No circles here.
  
  

  buju247

  yeah its great to get £80 quid back for a failed hard drive although in English law we have a 6 year guarantee anyway.

  
  
  Good luck getting a manufacturer to honour that!
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  mr_deals3 years, 10 months ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  Seems a good deal to me. I have eSata port so will give this a go.
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  Johnmcl73 years, 10 months ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  buju247

  so i back up my C drive data onto this, and then i back up the data on this onto another HD just so i'm backing up. dont we just go round in circles?
  
  yeah its great to get £80 quid back for a failed hard drive although in English law we have a 6 year guarantee anyway.

  
  
  Any data that is important to you should not be kept in one location only, simple as that.
  
  John
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  gogosteve3 years, 10 months ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  Hot for e-Sata capability!
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  deanos3 years, 10 months ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  LOL you guys that say you can get it cheaper then plese link to a 1tb [COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]ESATA[/SIZE] [/COLOR]drive thats cheaper.
  
  Voted hot
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  Uridium3 years, 10 months ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  buju247

  so i back up my C drive data onto this, and then i back up the data on this onto another HD just so i'm backing up. dont we just go round in circles?
  
  yeah its great to get £80 quid back for a failed hard drive although in English law we have a 6 year guarantee anyway.

  
  
  If you don't want to lose data you always buy twice the disk space you need. Just the way it is I'm afraid.
  
  I only keep the OS on the C:\ ...all my data is on a 2nd disk in the PC and I just back this up onto an external drive along with a regular 'image' backup of my C:\ drive.
  
  Disks fail. That's just the way they are, whatever brand you choose. Better to have a warranty than not.
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  deanos3 years, 10 months ago #19Show comment toolsReply

  buju247

  although in English law we have a 6 year guarantee anyway.

  
  
  
  No you dont !
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  Uridium3 years, 10 months ago #20Show comment toolsReply

  deanos

  LOL you guys that say you can get it cheaper then plese link to a 1tb [COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]ESATA[/SIZE] [/COLOR]drive thats cheaper.
  
  Voted hot

  
  
  I picked up one of these with USB2 and Esata and one of these the other week for less than £80
  
  £5 cheaper and more flexible ;-)

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