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Cheapest 500gb portable HD

  • 28-10-2009 6:30pm
    #1
    akadesign
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭


    Anyone have any ideas for a store preferably in Dublin and not online.

    Looking for USB powered only (2.5")

    cheers.


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  • #2
    akadesign
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭akadesign


    Guess that answers that then :rolleyes:


  • #3
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users Posts: 884 ✭✭✭Cork Skate


    Cheapest i have found is €100 in Currys. 500gig Iomega, its great.


  • #4
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    At those prices you're be mental to buy them. Honestly OP, is there no way you can get a friend to order one from the internet for ya? You can pick up the 500gb 2.5" SATA drive for about €60 and a 2.5" external enclosure for about €10 off ebay.


  • #5
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users Posts: 884 ✭✭✭Cork Skate


    TouchingVirus wrote: »
    At those prices you're be mental to buy them. Honestly OP, is there no way you can get a friend to order one from the internet for ya? You can pick up the 500gb 2.5" SATA drive for about €60 and a 2.5" external enclosure for about €10 off ebay.

    But he is looking for a USB Powered one though.
    akadesign wrote: »
    Looking for USB powered only (2.5").


  • #6
    akadesign
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭akadesign


    Hey guys thanks for the advice, eventually picked one up in PC World for €100 yoyo's, (Iomega).

    TouchingVirus would love to have gone the eBay route but didn't have the time to wait on this occassion.


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  • #7
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Cork Skate wrote: »
    But he is looking for a USB Powered one though.

    If you get a 2.5" SATA external hard drive that doesn't draw power from the USB by default then you should bring it back and get a different one - the only real reason anybody would want a 2.5" over 3.5" is that they don't require external power sources. The extra inch in hard drive size doesn't make that much of a difference regarding portability and 2.5" are more expensive per GB (1TB 3.5" spinning at 7200rpm costs roughly the same as a 500GB 2.5" spinning at 5400rpm).

    I've got a 500gb 2.5" and a two 160GB 2.5", all of which take power from the USB, and all of which I bought the hard drive and enclosure separately ;)
    akadesign wrote: »
    Hey guys thanks for the advice, eventually picked one up in PC World for €100 yoyo's, (Iomega).

    TouchingVirus would love to have gone the eBay route but didn't have the time to wait on this occassion.

    Hey OP, I figured the main reason somebody with their wits about them would choose to pay bricks & mortar prices these days for relatively cheap items such as this was that they were under time pressure. IOMEGA are a grand brand of external hard drives, have a few of them too myself :)


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