WESTERN DIGITAL Elements External Desktop Hard Drive 1.5TB £59.99 @ PC World

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  sofasurfer1 year, 5 months ago1 Like #21Show comment toolsReply

  Great price....I have a 2TB and it's as silent as a mouse. In fact it's the quietest external drive I have ever had. Ordered one for backups.
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  uggla1 year, 5 months ago #22Show comment toolsReply

  I paid a little bit less for the 2Tb version thanks to hot deals and its a brillliant drive and silent, hot from me considering the prices right now.
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  stu1e1 year, 5 months ago #23Show comment toolsReply

  prav86

  what do you mean by 'click'? does it make a noise when its running or something?

  
  
  The click of death ... basically the hard drive head gets stuck and wont reset back ... and the HD is well dead/game over/end credits .... my mybook did this after about 2yrs :(video of click of death
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  nilrem1 year, 5 months ago #24Show comment toolsReply

  prav86

  what do you mean by 'click'? does it make a noise when its running or something?

  
  
  It's a common term to use when a drive becomes faulty, they often make a continuous clicking noise sometimes called "the click of death" It happens when the read and write arm inside the disc fluctuates backwards and forwards quickly and hit's the centre bush of the disc.
  
  I have had many dozens of drives in use and only ever had one that has gone faulty and yes it did click! (FWIW It's wasn't a WD drive)
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  nilrem1 year, 5 months ago2 Likes #25Show comment toolsReply

  This is a very good deal indeed IMHO, better than the one I posted for a 1Tb @ £49 from Sainsbury's.
  
  People, don't be put off by folks saying these are not reliable or has problems, of the millions of Hard drives sold there are always going to be one or two that turn out to be faulty irrespective of the manufacturer. :)
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  MontBelzoni1 year, 5 months ago5 Likes #26Show comment toolsReply

  also with an attached WD external drive you also get free access to
  
  Acronis True Image WD Edition Software
  
  http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
  

  
  Edited By: MontBelzoni on Nov 21, 2011 20:21
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  Gixxerman0011 year, 5 months ago1 Like #27Show comment toolsReply

  uggla

  I paid a little bit less for the 2Tb version thanks to hot deals and its a brillliant drive

  
  
  I bought 2 of the 2tb ones from Dixons too when they were going for under £55 a while back.
  
  I did however find that they both stopped working quite quickly (within 3 or 4 days).
  Annoyingly when each had got to 1.4tb full.
  
  Dixons were really good & arranged for me to swap them out @ PC World.
  The 2 replacements have been as good as gold.
  Whatever they do to them in transit just doesn't do them much good.
  

  
  Edited By: Gixxerman001 on Nov 21, 2011 20:25
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  wingz1 year, 5 months ago #28Show comment toolsReply

  just got back from Pcworld, goning take it apart now :p
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  wingz1 year, 5 months ago2 Likes #29Show comment toolsReply

  done :D
  
  
  

  
  Edited By: wingz on Nov 21, 2011 21:07: .
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  guitarman11 year, 5 months ago #30Show comment toolsReply

  Wow i got this from pixmania for £35 about 5 months ago! why the hell has the prices gone up so much? my one went wrong today, the usb board in the caddy burnt out and corrupted the drive, so i lost all my data - not happy. warranty replacement in process.
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  mat20901 year, 5 months ago #31Show comment toolsReply

  You may want to black out the barcode to mush
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  upu0071 year, 5 months ago #32Show comment toolsReply

  great for the picture. hopefully the one I am buying also has the same hard drive type.
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  wingz1 year, 5 months ago2 Likes #33Show comment toolsReply

  guitarman1

  why the hell has the prices gone up so much?

  
  
  The bottom of the box says "Product of Thailand" (_;)
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  maxmum341 year, 5 months ago #34Show comment toolsReply

  Hot - Thanks
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  wingz1 year, 5 months ago #35Show comment toolsReply

  wow this drive is super quiet, I thought it wasn't on until I put my ear to it :D
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  blackster1 year, 5 months ago1 Like #36Show comment toolsReply

  stu1e

  Used to love western digital until my mybook got the dreaded click of death :( Prefer buffalo now tbh .. nice price though!

  
  
  You do know that buffalo use western digital drives in their products
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  tonymcg1 year, 5 months ago #37Show comment toolsReply

  Thanks OP, I have been waiting a while for these to come down in price - just ordered, and used TCB :)
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  blackster1 year, 5 months ago1 Like #38Show comment toolsReply

  one thing that you all need to note if buying any drive is always backup up important photos or your music collection to either another drive or dvdr, trust me it might seem like ott, but when your drives dies and you loose all your family photos you'll will learn the hard way.
  
  doesn't matter how good your drive is, it could die anytime
  
  

  
  Edited By: blackster on Nov 21, 2011 23:59: .
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  ukhotdeals11 year, 5 months ago1 Like #39Show comment toolsReply

  Use these myself - new drive out the box & stick it in PC & do a clean install, take old drive from the PC and stick it in the enclosure & copy the data over - there you have it; faster PC (clean registry etc) and if you a***e it all up you can always stick the old drive back in the PC & reformat the new hard drive & start again - heat added
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  rodrego1 year, 5 months ago #40Show comment toolsReply

  Awesome deal!! Hot hot hot

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