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Offline Rodders

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An Excellent High Spec HD
« on: January 09, 2010, 00:42 »
The Western Digital high-end 'Caviar Black' range of hard drives have excellent specs, a 5-year warranty and are very desirable indeed.

Right now Novatech are doing this 1TB beauty for a mere £74.99, which is little more than the price of an economy HD.  Delivery is free if you opt for the 3-4 day service that seldom takes more than a couple of days.

Fill yer boots.  I did - twice!   :)
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2010, 09:44 »
I may just do that!  :thumb:
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 02:11 »
not bad at all. I do love WD drives.
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 10:29 »
The only thing that worries me slightly with large hard drives is, it's a hell of a lot of data to lose if the drive fails.
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 10:40 »
In just a couple of years time 1TB will be considered a piffling amount of space, Simon.  Why not buy two, then clone the boot drive.  RAID1 also represents a good belt-and-braces method of keeping your bits intact.  Above all, backup regularly!
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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 10:47 »
I've never really embraced the regimental backups mindset.  Yeah, I have My Documents on a separate partition, and have this also backed up on a separate drive, but I only update it when I think about it, probably once every three months or so.  I know one or two people who shudder at the thought of missing an hourly backup!  ;D
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 11:03 »
 :aarrgh: ;D
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 12:17 »
Talk of the devil...   :devil:
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 12:36 »
You should know better than to use such language in my presence...  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 12:40 »
 o:)
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 13:35 »
backup backup backup. Though I tend to once a day for work and once a week for home.

I'm a bit concerned about the 1TB drives, I've seen quite a few crap out.
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2010, 13:42 »
Yeah, the five year warranty doesn't cover the data. 
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2010, 15:08 »
They're here!   

Ordered on Saturday, delivered Tuesday a.m.  Not bad for free P&P, eh?  This evening will therefore be spent using Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite to clone my bits.  Whereupon, I shall become the gloatiest gloater this side of Gloatsville. 

Note that I've already been using two WD 1TB 'Green' drives for well over a year without any kind of data loss.  Those will now go into an external enclosure linked to the WD Media Player and serve films I can never get to watch because there's invariably some interminable bleedin' soap on the box. 

Stay chooned...
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2010, 15:41 »
Not many people clone their bits.  :o:
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Re: An Excellent High Spec HD
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2010, 15:55 »
You can never have too many bits, Rik.  
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