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Intenso Portable External Hard Drive, USB 2.0, 1TB, Black - £64.95 @ John Lewis
£64.95John Lewis Deals
Seems a very good price for an external 1TB drive. I'm sure this has been posted before but its been out-of-stock for a while.
It's back instock, with 7 of them available @ 1738hrs today (April 26th). :-)
- Scotty Boy
It's back instock, with 7 of them available @ 1738hrs today (April 26th). :-)
- Scotty Boy
most likely this repackaged intenso.de/pro…297
Hot, considering today's HDD prices
Ps anyone have actal measurements please?
Yep unless I absolutely ran of space or need it for important data backup I just will not pay this price.
USB 3 portable should be this price more like.
# Spotted my error, you're probably talking about 3.5" internal/external hdd. Certainly a year ago the prices of these portable were so much cheaper.
+1
Picked up my 1TB USB 3.0 Portable HDD for £55 off Amazon.
That being said, this is an excellent price. Heat.
Can someone kindly confirm they have had success in removing these from the external enclosure and that the USB 2.0/ or 3.0 whatever connector can of course be removed or is it properly soldered like most other 2.5" externals that get sold nowadays? this would help alot of people to make up their mind on purchasing one of these external hdd's.
It also comes with the standard name if you check it in My Computer, so if you want something more recognisable you will have to rename it. Beware !
ahh ok, i'm with ya, yeah probably 12.5mm tall rather than the 9.5mm that fit in almost all standard old and new laptops, but we still need clarifiction on whether these hdd's have the soldered usb's connector's or the more easily hot swapped standard sata/usb connector's, which can easily be removed/detached. Does anyone know?
i am tempted to get one of these, i know if it uses the proprietary connector's it's more likely to be a 7200rpm drive inside but normally the ones with removable sata/usb connector's are more than likely the slower 5400 rpm drives inside which seems to be the trend with the manufacturers of 2.5 External's these days.
Bad quality & Horrible customer service!!
So no chance of ripping these out and placing them in a notebook caddy.
It's not so much the size i'm bothered about, i would just like to know if these can be detached from the usb connector and are 2.5" sata hdd's? or is the USB connector soldered to the hdd in some way? Please can someone confirm?
yeah, a good question. I have a few external 2.5" usb 2.0 hdd's and they only use a single usb 2.0 cable to provide both data & power to PC's with USB 2.0 ports but they can also be used with twin usb cable's for using seperate power & data to older PC's which only have USB 1.0 ports where you have to use 2 ports. None of my hdd's are these models though, unfortunately, so probably doesn't help answer your question, sorry.
Mainly good reviews on Amazon .
I think I read a review of this drive on Amazon that said it worked fine for movies when powered from one USB port (like on a media player), but the transfer rate improved when you were moving files if you used two USB ports to power it.
Please note when I say "movies" I mean backups of legally sourced and paid-for media.
From amazon:
The lead supplied is a "Y" USB to small USB lead (two standard USB plugs at the computer end) which is handy if you have a fussy USB port on your host machine as it can overcome some power supply issues - I have not had to use the second USB connection on anything yet but it's reassuring to know that if I need to use an underpowered USB port that I have a lead for the job!
hotukdeals.com/dea…e=2
loads of questions asked in the posts from the link above regarding what drive is in there etc....
also ive powered mine up via a single usb lead and also from the supplied double usb lead, (but just using one of the usb ends and worked fine)
i did think the double usb ends were for daisy chaining hdds together with only 1 usb cable,
post 33 from the above link someone posted
Picked mine up today and opened it up. It has a Seagate Momentus drive inside and it's only 9.5 thick
Can you confirm you can remove the hdd from the enclosure and connect it directly to motherboard with a standard sata cable? if yes, then i think i will pick one up? if no and it uses proprietary usb connector even once removed from its enclosure, then i will give it a miss and wait for something else.
Please can this be confirmed 100%?
I'm kinda confused by it being a Seagate Momentus drive as from browsing seagate's website i can only see that the 2.5" Momentus sizes go up to 750GB? How is it possible that it was a Seagate Momentus 1TB drive when there is not even reference that it exists on their own site? oO