1Tb drives under £50 (inc)

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I have used aria before so can confirm they're a real company, dam 1tb is cheap maybe I ought a get a cadddy..... but I am gonna be home for the summer with my desktop......
 
hmm, not sure I trust a hitachi driver over (say) the samsung, but this is a very good deal.... their shipping is quite expensive iirc though, taking it up to more like £60, by which time it's not much to upgrade to a better drive with free shipping from somewhere like ebuyer...
 
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This is now out of stock at the super special price. It is worth having a look at their web site though because they really do have some ridiculous deal of hard drives and other components!
 
itsdavedotnet said:
hmm, not sure I trust a hitachi driver over (say) the samsung, but this is a very good deal....
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I just bought two of the samsung F1s myself, worth the extra £15 but if you are building a NAS and maybe having 3 of these in RAID5 then you would save £45 and still have the redundancy!.
 
Yes I use Samsung F1s the UJ model in my mac pro and my server. They are quick and reliable
 
Perfect. I'm tempted to buy the above Samsung. I'm guessing I'll need to buy a caddy (enclosure) for it though? As I'm using it as a external hard drive.
 
Got 6 of these Samsung 1tbs in my main machine at home and 4 as NAS at work.

Never had a bit of trouble out of them.

BARGAIN at these prices (considering what i paid ;) )
 
I've got an F1 in my machine and its quite quick.
 
i wouldnt store any important data on a hitachi deathstar drive no matter how cheap it was.

western digital, and maybe seagate I think are the most reliable.
 
lazaroonie said:
i wouldnt store any important data on a hitachi deathstar drive no matter how cheap it was.

western digital, and maybe seagate I think are the most reliable.
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Seagate are the new Deathstar :lol: (I know from personal experience )

Everytime the technology in Hard drives moves on somebody will ***** up, you should always leave it at least 6 months before moving to a new drive to allow other people to bug test it first :)
 
mrgubby said:
Seagate are the new Deathstar :lol: (I know from personal experience )

Everytime the technology in Hard drives moves on somebody will ***** up, you should always leave it at least 6 months before moving to a new drive to allow other people to bug test it first :)
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true, but WD still rocks.

I have 10 year old 6 gb drives in my workshop that are still in perfect working order...although a little bit noisy
 
FranchiseJuan said:
You need to be carefull when ordering this drive, as it is 12.5 mm thick, which is too thick to fit in many (if not most) notebooks, and may not fit into the mac mini, and it is hard to find a external cage that will fit this drive (most 2.5 inch drives are 9.5mm thick).
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Yes, you are correct I have deleted it. I thought it was a different drive and now you point it out you are right.
 
It's annoying that they are only 1 per order, so you have to pay the shipping on each drive - I need four.

Deathstar was a very old drive. They have an excellent reputation now.

Graham
 
Hitachi = IBM I had one die on me just a few weeks ago, they're no better now than they were before (imo)
 
Steep said:
Hitachi = IBM I had one die on me just a few weeks ago, they're no better now than they were before (imo)
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I can understand how you must feel like that. I have never had any drive fail on me and currently have eleven running. However, I don't turn my computers off and run them all through surge protectors. Obviously I can't tell if that makes any difference, but happily they are all running fine. I use a mixture of Seagate, Deskstar and Samsung.

Did you send the drive back to the manufacturer or just get it replaced?

Graham
 
aye i'd go for an f1 or f2 very quiet and reliable
 
puddleduck said:
Postage is a bit steep, £ 8.95

I see Ebuyer are doing the 1.5TB F2 Eco for under £80, which I think is better value?
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Yes it is, shame they were not that price a few weeks ago when I bought 3 1Tb ones :)
 
cowasaki said:
Yes it is, shame they were not that price a few weeks ago when I bought 3 1Tb ones :)
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Are the F2's anygood?

I have an F1 in my current drive, I'm thinking of getting a 1.5Gb version and "Ghosting" over my current 1TB F1.. for backup.
 
The F2 drives are slightly slower and more power efficient. Personnally I would have no problem using them for a home server as the limiting factor is the network or as a backup drive or data drive. They are still fine as main drives just not quite as fast. Saying that though they are quicker than most drives that are over a year old.
 
They make a superb time machine drive for someone with a mac pro!
 
seagate barracuda's all the way....

dont touch anything else... from personal experience
 
jonnyjogpants said:
seagate barracuda's all the way....

dont touch anything else... from personal experience
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Yes the barracudua's are good drives, but they are also expensive and relatively power hungry.
This is why you can use other drives, and BACK UP.

I can't emphasise how important to people it is to back your stuff up. Sadly, it takes one catastrophic failure for most people to realise what they need to do.

End of the day, with hard drive prices as cheap as 5p/gigabyte, how anyone can afford NOT to back up is beyond me.

Companies with fibre channel SAN storage costing in the region of £7.5k per terabyte per year still think NOTHING of doubling that (so £15k a terabyte - vs £100 for 1 terabyte + backup for consumer drives) IN ADDITION to a daily backup system (again backing up onto fairly expensive hard disks / tape)... if your photos are earning you ANY money, and even if not, but you value your data and photos, you NEED to spend money ensuring that you won't lose everything.

Oh, and btw.. just a raid solution only protects you from hard drive failure. You should bear in mind that MOST data lossses are due to accidental deletion, filesystem corruption, malware, etc - this needs to be built into your backup plan too. Apple time machine is meant to be a pretty good system, personally I use a one way synchronisation using windows xp synctoy, meaning that deletions do not get copied to the backup location, which (very shortly) will be in a computer at the other end of the house, so even helping with fire protection too.

BACK UP!
 
jonnyjogpants said:
seagate barracuda's all the way....

dont touch anything else... from personal experience
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The problem with personal experience is that it is personal. I have a couple of barracudas (one was standard in the mac pro) but the F1 is as reliable, faster and cheaper. I have never had a Samsung drive failure but have had a barracuda fail other people, I am sure, could say the opposite. I seem to have most problems with Hitachi/IBM drives which I will no longer buy.
 
puddleduck said:
Are the F2's anygood?

I have an F1 in my current drive, I'm thinking of getting a 1.5Gb version and "Ghosting" over my current 1TB F1.. for backup.
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Answering my own question, I bought an F2 and its excellent, surprisingly fast for a 5400 RPM drive. and totally silent.
 
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