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Cheapest place to get internal harddrive

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  • 08-04-2015 10:00pm
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    Wetbench4
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    Hi all, I'm looking to get a 1 or 2 TB 3.5" hdd depending on the price. Where would be the cheapest including delivery?


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    Digital Solitude
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    2tb are about €87 from hardwareversand
    Dunno about the Amazon's but Amazon, scan, overclockers and hwvs are your best bets


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    Wetbench4
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    Well i originally built it with parts from hwvs and great thing was the single €18 delivery charge for multiple items, but not great for single items. I had a look on amazon alright but i thought maybe there was somewhere I hadn't heard of. Is there no cheap irish site for parts?


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    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Dabs, komplett and elara are Irish sites, I don't know about cheap though


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    Lu Tze
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    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    Dabs, komplett and elara are Irish sites, I don't know about cheap though

    Komplett aren't Irish, and don't have a physical presence in the country anymore. Do memoryc do hard drives?


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    Greenmachine
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    What about memoryc in celbridge?


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    Wetbench4
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    Thanks for the replies lads but after spending the last hour comparing prices and delivery options i found this to be the best deal if you select the free delivery option.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/6Gbps-SATA-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00D0240PQ/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

    Its WD2TB coming in at £64 delivered which is about €88. I really don't mind waiting the extra few days for the free delivery.


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    Skerries
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    just to let you know that that hard is a green one meaning that it is really meant for storage purposes as opposed to running as your main drive due to the speed
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    Wetbench4
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    Skerries wrote: »
    just to let you know that that hard is a green one meaning that it is really meant for storage purposes as opposed to running as your main drive due to the speed

    Damn I thought the red was for storage. Well I use 250GB ssd as my windows drive, and I have another 1TB barracuda which is used for everything else but is nearly full because of my steam folder so this will be a 3rd drive. Should be ok, no?


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    almorris
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    Sometimes cheapest for hard drives is not always the best option. I've a Seagate 1tb less than 6 months old that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Just saying...


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    Wetbench4
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    almorris wrote: »
    Sometimes cheapest for hard drives is not always the best option. I've a Seagate 1tb less than 6 months old that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Just saying...

    Really?? I've never had a single problem with mine. Do you mean speed wise?? What kind of problems did you have to make you not recommend?

    I pretty much narrowed my search to Seagate or WD. Never had a WD internal drive but I have a WD external 1TB drive that I use for media server and its been on for the last 5 or 6 years straight and not a problem, although I've probably cursed it now. All my other drives were Seagate, apart from the SSD's which have been Samsung 64gb and now EVO250GB.


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    Redfox25
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    Go with memoryc theyhave excelent service and speedy shipping


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    Wetbench4
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    Redfox25 wrote: »
    Go with memoryc theyhave excelent service and speedy shipping

    I checked memoryc and they only had a choice of two 2TB drives, a seagate at €96 and a hybrid sshd @ €140. Ended up getting the WD 2tb green from amazon because of the free shipping, and its only €88.


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    Digital Solitude
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    Lu Tze wrote: »
    Komplett aren't Irish, and don't have a physical presence in the country anymore. Do memoryc do hard drives?

    I was talking about the Irish site :p Knew they weren't Irish, didn't realise they weren't based here anymore, thanks for that


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    almorris
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭almorris


    Wetbench4 wrote: »
    Really?? I've never had a single problem with mine. Do you mean speed wise?? What kind of problems did you have to make you not recommend?

    I pretty much narrowed my search to Seagate or WD. Never had a WD internal drive but I have a WD external 1TB drive that I use for media server and its been on for the last 5 or 6 years straight and not a problem, although I've probably cursed it now. All my other drives were Seagate, apart from the SSD's which have been Samsung 64gb and now EVO250GB.

    Not being recognized anywhere on the computer, comes on sometimes, blue light blinking. Having said that, it's been OK lately. I've also a 1tb WD that like yours has been flawless for the last 5 - 6 years.

    Check out this reliability study from backblaze, worth a read. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

    It would seem not some much brand as model, as in some models are just dogs. In short, the eco green models take longer to spin up and that could be causing high rates of failures.


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    Wetbench4
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    almorris wrote: »
    Not being recognized anywhere on the computer, comes on sometimes, blue light blinking. Having said that, it's been OK lately. I've also a 1tb WD that like yours has been flawless for the last 5 - 6 years.

    Check out this reliability study from backblaze, worth a read. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

    It would seem not some much brand as model, as in some models are just dogs. In short, the eco green models take longer to spin up and that could be causing high rates of failures.

    Interesting stuff, I did have a seagate 320gb go on me a few years ago but it was one i'd salvaged from an old sky box and it already had 1000's of hours clocked up on it so thats what I put that down to. Other than that i've been lucky.

    I'm thinking of clearing my 1tb drive of movies, pics, media stuff, and keep it for steam game installs. And because of the spin down feature in the wd green drive, I'll be packing all the media stuff onto that. Any other programs can go on my ssd. My steam folder is roughly 700GB.


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    beauf
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    almorris wrote: »
    ....Check out this reliability study from backblaze, worth a read. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/..

    Then there was a lot of negative feedback about that article.

    http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/1515424-dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-real-story-covered.html

    http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html


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    almorris
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭almorris


    beauf wrote: »
    Then there was a lot of negative feedback about that article.

    http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/1515424-dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-real-story-covered.html

    http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

    Both the links seem to go to the same article? Interesting that the author of the above slags Backblaze for seeking attention then goes on to rehash Backblazes article. You pay your money and take your chances.


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