2TB ext HD's for 85 quid.

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:38 am

Just in case anyone else is interested, Maplins have a deal on at the moment on a Seagate ext HD http://www.maplin.co.uk/2tb-freeagent-g ... ive-396166

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pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:12 pm

Only £79.99 now from Maplin or on e-bay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200750288938? ... 2320wt_983

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:24 pm

Well spotted, free P+P too.

Bargain. I think!

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pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:26 pm

Where did you get the £85 price ?

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:34 pm

email newsletter from Maplins this morning.

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pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:36 pm

Dave the bass wrote:email newsletter from Maplins this morning.

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Well, the Maplin link you gave says £79.99 + free postage.

PS seems £85 is the in-store price and £79.99 is a one day only online offer.

Paul Barker · Post by **Paul Barker** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:45 pm

It is a great deal but all these drives encourage poor housekeeping.

My laptop (which wife has due to her work laptop problems) when I put Windows 8 on it I stuck it on a 40gb SSD for the speed. Managed to also fit Office 2010 with that. There is maybe 10gb left for files, but I have a 64gB SD card in the SD card slot as the main file storage.

I understand that people who like a few more bands than me might need a little more space for their music than 64gb but what other jink are they allowing to build up now they are not short of space?

Not that this particular situation isn't a good idea. Just wandering what it's required for.

I mean my vinyl would probably fill the whole wall if it were properly organised, I have far too much, you only play a few of them. The equivalent digitally as FLAC files would probably not even fill my 64gb sd card.

Are there people here who find the need to be the worlds repository of every piece of music made by mankind?

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:57 pm

Paul Barker wrote: Are there people here who find the need to be the worlds repository of every piece of music made by mankind?

<puts hand up>

Yup!

Music is great, it makes me smile and think. I enjoy it lots. Ergo, more music = more smiles and even happier than I already am. £79 is a small price to pay for 2TB of desktop storage which ultimatley leads to sonic happiness IMO.

FWIW the weekend last and all this week we've been working our way through Rolling Stone magazines top 500 songs of all time, so yeah, I do listen to anwful lot of toons. I listen to music 8-9 hours a day at work too don't forget here in the 'shop.

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colin.hepburn · Post by **colin.hepburn** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:59 pm

Good price for 2TB good back up Drive I have a western digital 2TB for backup dute only it backs up automatically and if you delete files from your C drive the backup drive deletes the files as well
so you can forget about it and feel safe you have the perfect backup in single or multiple copies the drive costs a bit more but worth it I think
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=240

andrew Ivimey · Post by **andrew Ivimey** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:13 pm

Until the back-up drive conks out...paranoid? Moi!

colin.hepburn · Post by **colin.hepburn** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:17 pm

andrew Ivimey wrote:Until the back-up drive conks out...paranoid? Moi!

Yep but thats why you should have more than one backup Drive double paranoid

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:19 pm

Aye, hence the reason I have 3 x 2TB back up drives to back up just the music.

1 is formatted just for Vortexbox and does nothing but music on the VB. The 2nd is a general purpose back-up HD with all music plus piccies on. The 3rd is a back up of number 2 that is used here at work for sound files and finally a likkle 2.5" USB 320GB HD backs up all Julie's work and all our piccies we take.

4 in total not including the HD's in the Vortexbox and home PC.

Paranoid? moi!

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colin.hepburn · Post by **colin.hepburn** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:36 pm

Yep I have a 500G for everyday crap two 2TB one music and one connected to my Humax fox sat- Free sat 1TB HD Digital TV recorder this is great as I can record concerts docs direct to the usb drive or copy over from the internal drive in HD

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