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I just noticed the Maplins are selling the Seagate 1TB external hard drive for £64.99 including delivery, offer ends 10th August. I paid £90.00 for one of these from Maplins about 6 months ago so this seems a reasonable price for anyone in the market for one. Linky
 
I got a 1 TB Iomega external drive from Comet a couple of weeks back for £58. When I first started out in IT , 1 TB could only be found in a massive Mainframe computer and would have cost tens of thousands.
 
My first hard drive in 1994 was a massive 850 MB and I was advised I wouldn't need any more space!!
 
Boldonian said:
I got a 1 TB Iomega external drive from Comet a couple of weeks back for £58. When I first started out in IT , 1 TB could only be found in a massive Mainframe computer and would have cost tens of thousands.
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Bachus said:
My first hard drive in 1994 was a massive 850 MB and I was advised I wouldn't need any more space!!
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Not wanting to show my age, but I bought my son a Commodore Vic 20 computer around 1980, there was an option of a memory extension, a sort of plug in cartridge about half the size of a VCR casette. The extra memory was 20K and cost £80.00, thats scary by todays standards :eek:

If the Maplins offer is that good I dont know, I am not in the market and havent done any homework, but it seemed reasonable and worth a mention here.
 
I had a similar experience when Maplin were doing the 500Gb Seagate discounted.
That was three years ago, still going strong, about half full.
Recommended drive if you're in the market for one.
 
Trev4 said:
I just noticed the Maplins are selling the Seagate 1TB external hard drive for £64.99 including delivery, offer ends 10th August. I paid £90.00 for one of these from Maplins about 6 months ago so this seems a reasonable price for anyone in the market for one. Linky
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Looks like the same one at £59.97 at Tesco incl free del.
 
Amazing how quickly technology develops.. I bought a 1tb USB drive a couple of years ago, and wondered at the time if I'd ever fill it up..

Now I've got my 5D2 with its 20-30mb RAW files, the 1tb is filling up nicely :nuts:

Makes me wonder where we'll be in 5-10 years.. will we all be using 50 mp sensors and 256gb cards?

A.
 
Bachus said:
My first hard drive in 1994 was a massive 850 MB and I was advised I wouldn't need any more space!!
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My first hard drive was going to be a 20mb drive for my Atari ST 1040 STFM but when I rang them up they didn't have the 20mb one so I got the 30mb one which was MASSSIVE.
 
When I joined M&S's IT dept (quaintly called the Microcomputers dept) in 1985 the new 'box' was the IBM XT. It had a hard disk that was 10Mb in size, the next release, the IBM AT, was double the size at 20Mb - now that was heaven :)
 
When I bought my 1st digital camera I paid £199 for a 512mb CF card to go with it. I've still got it for all the use it is now!
 
Trev4 said:
If the Maplins offer is that good I dont know, I am not in the market and havent done any homework, but it seemed reasonable and worth a mention here.
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It's about £10 more than can be had from places like Ebuyer, Amazon etc. Don't let that put you off from passing info on in future though.
 
My first PC had 32 megabytes of main memory, of which 4 were used by the graphics chip, and a 3 (yes, 3) gigabyte hard disk.

My first real computer was an IBM System 36 with 256 kilobytes of main memory and a 200 megabyte hard disk. You could support 30 odd people on that box!
 
First PC here was an XT with 640 kB, dual floppy drives AND a 10MB hdd.. so top spec at the time. Oh and a Hercules high def monochrome display to boot.

I have to admit that this 27" iMac with quad-core i7 and 12GB of RAM is a bit better at some tasks, so software bloat hasn't kept up with Moore's law ;)
 
Trev4 said:
Commodore Vic 20 computer around 1980, there was an option of a memory extension, a sort of plug in cartridge about half the size of a VCR casette.
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That was my first computer also, it was funny to hear the cassette sounding like a fax machine as the game loaded... Do you remember the game blitz??
 
My first hard drive was 20 meg too. They were known as Winchesters in those days. That 20 meg cost £400.00.
 
My first hard drive, well actually it wasn't, it was either paper tape or punched card (sometimes I used both as backup!). And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

My first home PC was an Amstrad 1512 with 20mb HDD and of course I never filled it up.
 
if only it was a portable one
 
p1tse said:
if only it was a portable one
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They are always more expensive but amazing capacities now for such small drives. The 1Tb portables tend to be around the £120 mark, you should get 500Gb for £50ish.
 
BlackCloud said:
They are always more expensive but amazing capacities now for such small drives. The 1Tb portables tend to be around the £120 mark, you should get 500Gb for £50ish.
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think i'll go for the 500gb, as easier with laptop
 
Got a Western Digital Passport in the 500GB size and can't really fault it on anything including the price
 
Just purchased the Hitachi 1 tb from tescos. nice unit..
 
Thanks Trev for the Link, Picked up a 1TB from Maplins this afternoon.
 
pigginell said:
That was my first computer also, it was funny to hear the cassette sounding like a fax machine as the game loaded... Do you remember the game blitz??
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I seem to remember the name yes, as I mentioned, it was my sons so he played most of the games.
When we bought it for him, there were very few games available, so we bought program books where you had to type in the whole program letter by letter, poke by peek (if you remember that terminology) and without a single mistake. If you were lucky, the game would run after it was all recorded onto the tape. If it didnt, you had to go through pages and pages and compare them to what you had typed in until you found the error. We spent hours and hours typing in the games but it was all worth it.


Skeleton1200 said:
Thanks Trev for the Link, Picked up a 1TB from Maplins this afternoon.
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No problem, I am happy it was of some use to you :thumbs:
 
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