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Posted 22 March 2013
Toshiba 1TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive - £49.99 @ Currys / PC World
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Finally a USB 3.0 1TB portable that's gone below £50. Don't confuse this with the chunky desktop drives that need additional power. This is portable and powered from USB.
Keep your multimedia and data with you thanks to the Toshiba STOR.E Basics Portable Hard Drive!
Perfect portability and power
Weighing at a minuscule 180g, the Toshiba STOR.E Basics makes light work of transporting your external data with a sleek, smooth design that is easy to take wherever you go.
With a whopping 1TB hard drive, you will not run short of space very easily with the potential to store up to 250,000 songs or 1 million photos!
Rapid transferring
The Toshiba STOR.E Basics Portable Hard Drive is USB 3.0 compatible, catering for spectacular transfer rates of up to 5GB per second, guaranteeing you will not be waiting around!
There is also USB 2.0 backwards compatibility, ensuring that you will be able to transfer files no matter what the system is.
With an included 3.0 USB cable, make the most of simplistic, speedy data transfer with the 1TB Toshiba STOR.E Basics Portable Hard Drive.
Product code: 542771
note: 5GB a second is theoretical and will not be exact nor matched to everyone due to different motherboards performance including laptops.
- LightningPete
Keep your multimedia and data with you thanks to the Toshiba STOR.E Basics Portable Hard Drive!
Perfect portability and power
Weighing at a minuscule 180g, the Toshiba STOR.E Basics makes light work of transporting your external data with a sleek, smooth design that is easy to take wherever you go.
With a whopping 1TB hard drive, you will not run short of space very easily with the potential to store up to 250,000 songs or 1 million photos!
Rapid transferring
The Toshiba STOR.E Basics Portable Hard Drive is USB 3.0 compatible, catering for spectacular transfer rates of up to 5GB per second, guaranteeing you will not be waiting around!
There is also USB 2.0 backwards compatibility, ensuring that you will be able to transfer files no matter what the system is.
With an included 3.0 USB cable, make the most of simplistic, speedy data transfer with the 1TB Toshiba STOR.E Basics Portable Hard Drive.
Product code: 542771
note: 5GB a second is theoretical and will not be exact nor matched to everyone due to different motherboards performance including laptops.
- LightningPete
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112 Comments
sorted byI'd say a hard drive, but that's just my guess.
This one also has proper SATA connections inside. Nobody was able to confirm whether or not the Sony one was soldered to the USB connector. For most people it won't make a difference, but if you ever want to take your drive apart (e.g. to install in a laptop or for data recovery purposes) then it's a major bonus to be able to remove the drive cleanly.
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never forget cashback.
if there's same price I'd choose to buy from amazon 10 times out of 10.
u mad?
SSD is a disk drive, like the one in this deal. SSD is a faster HDD basically. But expensive.
40gb is probably the size of one of your partitions on the HDD (your C drive maybe?).
You got 1gb and 512MB of RAM, DDR2 type. DDR2 is older and slower then DDR3, but more expensive, this is why sometimes is not cost effective. In your case, the biggest impact would be to buy 2GB DDR2 RAM, dump the 512MB one, replace it with the new RAM, this will give you 3GB RAM. Then disable swap file, this 2 actions will speed up your laptop.
This is also easy to do yourself.
No need for more info.
I would try this first, and only after asses the need for a SSD. You might not need it.
Thanks OP!
i think the word you're looking for is compatible.
Typically, external drives are internal drives in an enclosure, they only die (sooner than internal) if abused. Optical media isn't failure free either, personally I doubt it's any safer.
No matter how cheap drives get, there will always be those that don't backup vital data...
No you are quite mad, if we support businesses that don't pay taxes at the cost of businesses that do, it will cost us in the end, usually by the time it's too late to stop it. The country costs the same to run, if the government gets less from business it will take more from you directly.
You may not be old enough to worry about it now, but in 20 years time, you will find out the true cost of supporting Amazon and the cost of a business like PC World. You have to remember that the employment ecosystem created to support bricks and mortar companies is vast, in comparison to the couple of warehouse staff and the postman (who would still be delivering for someone else anyway). It's a lot more damaging than a little bit of corporation tax for the profits on a hard drive.
I agree PC World customer service is terrible, but sometimes you have to consider the bigger picture. Is the service that likely to be called upon, does it really matter on a commodity item like this? If the price is the same I will always support the tax paying business. If I have vouchers or it's significantly cheaper, then Amazon is a sensible choice, although in the end you may pay for it.
mike
Now it is unfairly levied on British-based businesses so that they can't be as competitive, but that's not Amazon's fault, it's the government's, and anybody else's who thinks that Corporation Tax is a good way of raising tax revenue.
if you care about looks, Sony. if not, this.
5400rpm. for this type of drive, not really.
Amazon
Apparently it will work, but you'll need a "Y-cable"
"Can bus-powered hard disc drives be used with Wii U?
Some bus-powered hard disc drives draw more current than the USB 2.0 specification and might not run stably, so we cannot guarantee that such devices will run properly on Wii U without the use of a supplemental power cable called a y-cable that draws power from two USB ports." Nintendo.com
Something like this would do:
USB 3.0 Y Cable (eBay) - £3.98
USB 3.0 Y Cable (Amazon) - £7.62
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Great. Thanks for the info. I'll have a look at that.
Thanks just ordered from amazon
The Sony has a 3 year guarantee, can't see how long the Tosh one has.