Seeking cheap IDE storage in UK - any good deals?

Who is selling the cheapest IDE storage measured in cost per gigabyte for a
UK user?

Want to store about 200 to 250 GB of data on hard drive(s) which will be
kept disconnected from the PC.

I don't mind if the drive is 5400 or 7200. I don't mind if it is 100 or 133
Mbps. But I do not want several relatively small drives 'cos that would be
hard to manage.

Noise, speed and heat do not really matter. Although I don't want to go to
the extreme 'cos I might connect the drive(s) permanently to the PC in the
future.

Any good deals out there?

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Who is selling the cheapest IDE storage measured in cost per gigabyte for
a
UK user?

Want to store about 200 to 250 GB of data on hard drive(s) which will be
kept disconnected from the PC.

I don't mind if the drive is 5400 or 7200. I don't mind if it is 100 or
133
Mbps. But I do not want several relatively small drives 'cos that would be
hard to manage.

Noise, speed and heat do not really matter. Although I don't want to go
to
the extreme 'cos I might connect the drive(s) permanently to the PC in the
future.

Any good deals out there?



http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=45013

"Crazy Aizy" wrote in message ...
| Who is selling the cheapest IDE storage measured in cost per
gigabyte for
| a
| UK user?
|
| Want to store about 200 to 250 GB of data on hard drive(s) which
will be
| kept disconnected from the PC.
|
| I don't mind if the drive is 5400 or 7200. I don't mind if it is
100 or
| 133
| Mbps. But I do not want several relatively small drives 'cos that
would be
| hard to manage.
|
| Noise, speed and heat do not really matter. Although I don't want
to go
| to
| the extreme 'cos I might connect the drive(s) permanently to the PC
in the
| future.
|
| Any good deals out there?
|
|
|
|
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...c2hvd19wcm9kdW
N0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=45013
|
It's cheaper to get 2 of these;

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...c2hvd19wcm9kdW
N0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=27486

STM

"John Smith" wrote:
Who is selling the cheapest IDE storage measured in cost per gigabyte for a
UK user?

Want to store about 200 to 250 GB of data on hard drive(s) which will be
kept disconnected from the PC.

I don't mind if the drive is 5400 or 7200. I don't mind if it is 100 or 133
Mbps. But I do not want several relatively small drives 'cos that would be
hard to manage.

Noise, speed and heat do not really matter. Although I don't want to go to
the extreme 'cos I might connect the drive(s) permanently to the PC in the
future.

Any good deals out there?


I'm looking for a hard drive myself

been looking at this one from scan 8mb cache and 200 gig storage
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=42167

Never used scan before so not sure how much postage will be.

doogie wrote in :

Never used scan before so not sure how much postage will be.

£7 for little things - £10 for bigger. They use City Link (usually/always
for us) - who are fine in my area.

--
Rod

www.annalaurie.co.uk

doogie wrote:

"John Smith" wrote:

Who is selling the cheapest IDE storage measured in cost per gigabyte for a
UK user?

Want to store about 200 to 250 GB of data on hard drive(s) which will be
kept disconnected from the PC.

I don't mind if the drive is 5400 or 7200. I don't mind if it is 100 or 133
Mbps. But I do not want several relatively small drives 'cos that would be
hard to manage.

Noise, speed and heat do not really matter. Although I don't want to go to
the extreme 'cos I might connect the drive(s) permanently to the PC in the
future.

Any good deals out there?



I'm looking for a hard drive myself

been looking at this one from scan 8mb cache and 200 gig storage
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=42167

Never used scan before so not sure how much postage will be.


I bought a few LaCie Firewire drives, from 160GB P3(designed
F.A.Porsche) to the 500GB d2 LargeDisk, overall I would say the 250GB P3
is the most value for money, the cheapest one is only 150 pounds(when I
bought 5 in one go from Cancomuk.com with free delivery, they have
discount for buying 3+ too and single unit at 158.63 pounds), the
highest price I have paid for this model is 175 pounds from Microanvika,
it comes with 2 years warrenty, compare to what I found from Scan,
eBuyer, dabs or Aria, a cheap 250GB IDE HDD would cost from 135 pounds
with only one years warrenty.
with those LaCie drives, you can choose ether firewire 400 or USB 2.0
depands on what type of connection you have on your computer, but I
would choose firewire as the starnfering is far more steady than the USB
2.0, if you are working with large files, those external drives can be
very useful, unless you have a 1000Mbps LAN, the 10/100 network would
take ages to transfer 100GB file across.

HTH
S.Chang

On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:50:04 +0100, Mark M
wrote:

-Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB UDMA100 for £70.02 including delivery.

-One site warns: "They all tend to have a touch of whine, low
-overall noise, and a fatal flaw that makes them unacceptable for
-most Silent PC enthusiasts: A loud head reset noise that occurs
-periodically whenever in low activity for more than ~10 minutes.
-This noise has been described variously, from a meow, to a screech,
-to a braying kind of eeee-awwww. Still, some people don't seem to
-mind, and the 7K250 are about the fastest 7200 RPM drives going."
-

We supply the odd SCSI system which has the IBM 36Gb SCSI disk, and this noise
is very familiar, and quite disconcerting. Every so often it does the
eee-awwwing. Still, we have a few out there and none have gone down quite
yet....................


-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

Rob S wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:50:04 +0100, Mark M
wrote:

-Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB UDMA100 for £70.02 including delivery.

-One site warns: "They all tend to have a touch of whine, low
-overall noise, and a fatal flaw that makes them unacceptable for
-most Silent PC enthusiasts: A loud head reset noise that occurs
-periodically whenever in low activity for more than ~10 minutes.
-This noise has been described variously, from a meow, to a screech,
-to a braying kind of eeee-awwww. Still, some people don't seem to
-mind, and the 7K250 are about the fastest 7200 RPM drives going."
-

We supply the odd SCSI system which has the IBM 36Gb SCSI disk, and
this noise is very familiar, and quite disconcerting. Every so often
it does the eee-awwwing. Still, we have a few out there and none have
gone down quite yet....................


When / if they do (mine are fine, apart from a few of the notorious GXP's
(was it 75GXP ?)) you'll wish like hell you hadn't bought from Dabs.. we're
having an absolute nightmare returning a HP Colour Laserjet 3700 to them.
Telephone? You wish!

On Sat, 15 May 2004 08:04:26 +0100, "Carl Farrington"
wrote:

-Rob S wrote:
-
- We supply the odd SCSI system which has the IBM 36Gb SCSI disk, and
- this noise is very familiar, and quite disconcerting. Every so often
- it does the eee-awwwing. Still, we have a few out there and none have
- gone down quite yet....................
-
-
-When / if they do (mine are fine, apart from a few of the notorious GXP's
-(was it 75GXP ?)) you'll wish like hell you hadn't bought from Dabs.. we're
-having an absolute nightmare returning a HP Colour Laserjet 3700 to them.
-Telephone? You wish!
-

LOL @ thought of buying business critical equipment from dabs.

In fact I never ever buy anything off dabs. Rather go without.

Consistently good returns and service from Misco and Inmac. For some items there
is a price premium, for others like printers there often isn't. But they answer
the phone. They are polite. They deliver when they say. They collect RMAs. Their
website stock levels aren't fiction.

-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

In ,
Rob S wrote:

LOL @ thought of buying business critical equipment from dabs.

In fact I never ever buy anything off dabs. Rather go without.

Consistently good returns and service from Misco and Inmac. For some
items there is a price premium, for others like printers there often
isn't. But they answer the phone. They are polite. They deliver when
they say. They collect RMAs. Their website stock levels aren't
fiction.

Misco = Simply don't they? Either they treat business customers
completely differently from private or it's a long time since you
ordered from them.

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