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Posted 30 October 2007
LaCie 500GB EXternal Hard Drive £53.98 delivered with Google Checkout
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£10 off with Google Checkout! Makes this a real steal
ANYONE WHO PREVIOUSLY USED £10 OFF £30 GC OFFER CANNOT USE IT ON THIS ITEM
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ANYONE WHO PREVIOUSLY USED £10 OFF £30 GC OFFER CANNOT USE IT ON THIS ITEM
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Ebuyer has currently Make your First Order and you and the referrer both get £10 Off campaign, if you want to use it you can do so from this .
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sorted by(by the way, much as I want another 500Gb ext i'll give this one a miss....)
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Anyhoo, paranoia aside, this is a good deal for a 500GB drive. It's the smallest drive I have. It is quiet. It stays cool when idle but gets quite warm under constant use. It is reasonably fast but is considerably slower than my FireWire HDs That is only to be expected though. In my opinion it is excellent value for money therefore, recommended. :thumbsup:
Quite correct but, I don't give them information through searches as I do not permit any cookies from Google, any Java interaction with Google and, I browse through a proxy. I do this with everyone really not just Google. This way I am able to choose to whom I give information. 8-)
However, that is really off topic. Just under £54 is a good deal for a 500GB external HD. :thumbsup:
Better that Google pay £10 for them than to give them to Ebuyer or ANY other company you do dealings with for FREE:giggle: Did Paypal pay you for your details? Didn't think so and Ebay corp are MUCH worse than Google.
I'm not so stupid as to use Paypal or ebay either! I Bet 99% of people just don't think about the implications of a company like google having your credit card details though, I think they will regret it in the end.
bought this this morning.
according to the freecom page
Ebuyer have already picked & shipped it ! Expecting delivery tomorrow.
Anyhoo, will let you know what I think of it when it turns up.
Jav
Really? I've saved thousands thanks to ebay sellers and indeed managed to source things that would be near impossible to find elsewhere. At the end of the day, giving GC or PP your card details is no different to walking into Tesco, infact i'd say Tesco is the worst out of the 3. You do know they record all your shopping habits?
I got the LaCie hard disk delivered this morning from ebuyer, the drive is a Samsung Spinpoint T series HD501LJ. The drive has 16mb cache.
More detail on the drive here: ]http//ww…1LJ.
Should we all be doing a load of searches we are actually not interested in, so as to put google off the scent then? Can I have a list of a couple of dozen search terms that I should put in for this purpose please?
Lacie are number one sellers at da moment BUT i've given up on them..
I've noticed Lacie & Westend Digital r the onces 2 keep away from!!!!!
ca mon then - what are the implications??
that's the problem with drives so big, you really can't afford to lose that much data, so you have to buy another drive to backup to, which gets expensive....
personally though i wouldn't trust anything much to external drives anyway - they'd be my backup not my primary.
surprised about wd not being great, so i'm guessing you're saying go seagate?
You cannot find it on lacie's website and it's much worse: not designed by F.A Porsche, no switch on and off button, the power supply is also much worse.
How is it OEM when it quite clearly has LACIE stamped on the top:?
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From reviews i've read the Porche designed ones are flimsy plastic rubbish by the way.
Lacie told me this one is only for resellers and they do not sell it, so I say it OEM.
I cannot say anything about the Porche designed ones because I have not one. But I believe it should be at least not worse than this one: higher level product with switch on-off button, software CD and better power supply.
How do you know it? Can you open the case? Besides, do you know how to access the SMART information? The WD diagnostics cannot. Thanks.
Thanks. Do you know how to access the SMART information? I tried several software, but they all said information unavailable.
I have the Porche design one - it doesnt have a on off switch. I assume that this one is the same. Great price for a very good drive in my opinion. If it has the drive mentioned in a previous post, this is an excellent deal. Voted HOT.
Really? check lacie.com/dow…pdf or the picture lacie.com/uk/…468.
From the OS, the internal drive should be HD501LJ. But I cannot figure out how to open the case to have a look.
Your correct, the 500gb edition does, but the one that I have - the 250gb edition doesnt. I have no idea why. :x Sorry, my bad. :oops:
Yours may be old model. I believe all new Porche design models including 250gb one have the button.
By the way, can you access the SMART information of your drive?
We're tight on cash so I'm trying to make sure it'll be the right one before I part with the dosh..
Thanks lots, sorry for lots of q's! :oops:
Lucy