external 1/1.5TB HDD @ eason (Tralee) €49

Quaderno · 29-06-2012 7:53pm #1

I took those pics about 20 minutes ago in Tralee. They (and possibly other eason stores) currently have external Dane-Elec HDDs with 1 and 1.5 TB capacity, both at €49 each. Yes, they come with a mains power supply and connect via USB2.0, which is probably the reason they are on offer. All the newer drives they have are USB3.0, but for backups or to just rip out the drive that shouldn't make any difference.

feelgoodinc27 · 30-06-2012 1:05pm

None in Easons on O'Connell St Dublin

Cherry_Cola · 30-06-2012 1:44pm

Can anyone confirm if these are in Cork?

bricky06 · 30-06-2012 2:18pm

anyone know if they're in dun laoghaire?

Wineman · 30-06-2012 2:46pm

bricky06 wrote: »

anyone know if they're in dun laoghaire?

None in Dun Laoghaire.

paidi_ed · 30-06-2012 4:59pm

Thanks OP. Picked up a 1TB one earlier today in Tralee

Access · 30-06-2012 5:46pm

None in Navan

Riesen_Meal · 30-06-2012 6:14pm

I bought one of these before and it never let me format it to fat 32, had some weird software on top, I couldn't get rid of it, but for 49 notes ya can't go wrong...

south · 30-06-2012 8:43pm

paidi_ed wrote: »

Thanks OP. Picked up a 1TB one earlier today in Tralee

any 1.5 tb left ?

RUCKING FETARD · 30-06-2012 11:40pm

Fieldog wrote: »

I bought one of these before and it never let me format it to fat 32, had some weird software on top, I couldn't get rid of it, but for 49 notes ya can't go wrong...

Format it TO fat 32?

Why would you want to?

Soarer · 01-07-2012 7:52am

Xbox backups for one.

george67 · 01-07-2012 8:56am

Soarer wrote: »

Xbox backups for one.

And PlayStation

paidi_ed · 01-07-2012 9:03am

south wrote: »

any 1.5 tb left ?

Afraid not, only a few 1TB ones.

Nazata · 01-07-2012 9:20am

Fieldog wrote: »

I bought one of these before and it never let me format it to fat 32, had some weird software on top, I couldn't get rid of it, but for 49 notes ya can't go wrong...

Were you using CMD commands? Windows won't let you format something larger than 32GB to FAT32, so you have to use CMD to do it to larger drives...

dohouch · 01-07-2012 9:41am

Great tool for Formatting large HDD's, really fast, - HERE

Monotype · 01-07-2012 11:13am

You might not be seeing the entire drive and there might be extra hidden partitions with software on them.
To completely clean the drive:
-Go to the start menu and enter diskmgmt.msc
-In the lower half of the window, scroll down until you see your drive.
-Delete all the partitions on the new disk.

You should be able to create one new partition and format it however you like. Be careful that you don't delete anything from another drive!