Lidl Special Offer - Portable Hard Dive

[Emrys Davies]

I have Win7 and WLM

I was nearly off to buy a Segate Expansion 500 GB Portable HD for £46.99
from PC World, but I saw this advert. and thought I would share this info.
and at the same time get advice as to whether I should go for this product
instead. Cost is secondary to hassle free setup and reliability. Product
can be returned within 28 days for any reason, whatsoever.

SilverCrest 500GB Portable Hard Drive £54.99

With: Padded protective pouch
Practical USB power supply
8 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm

Specificaltions:

Disk type - Toshiba SATA
Capacity (GB) - 500
Cache (MB) - 8
Speed (rmp) - 5400
Connection - USB 2
Plug & Play - Yes
Formatted - NTFS

3 year Manufacture's warranty

[FooAtari[_2_]]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:38:22 +0000, Emrys Davies wrote:

> I have Win7 and WLM
>
> I was nearly off to buy a Segate Expansion 500 GB Portable HD for £46.99
> from PC World, but I saw this advert. and thought I would share this
> info. and at the same time get advice as to whether I should go for this
> product instead. Cost is secondary to hassle free setup and
> reliability. Product can be returned within 28 days for any reason,
> whatsoever.
>
> SilverCrest 500GB Portable Hard Drive £54.99
>
> With: Padded protective pouch
> Practical USB power supply
> 8 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm
>
> Specificaltions:
>
> Disk type - Toshiba SATA
> Capacity (GB) - 500
> Cache (MB) - 8
> Speed (rmp) - 5400
> Connection - USB 2
> Plug & Play - Yes
> Formatted - NTFS
>
> 3 year Manufacture's warranty



I don't really see where the saving is here. Surely the Segate is
powered by USB if it's portable and this will be provided with it. And a
pouch can be picked up for just a few quid on eBay or something. It
doesn't seem to me you are getting anything that's worth the extra 8 quid.

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[DanS[_3_]]

"Emrys Davies" > wrote in
:

> I have Win7 and WLM
>
> I was nearly off to buy a Segate Expansion 500 GB Portable
> HD for £46.99 from PC World, but I saw this advert. and
> thought I would share this info. and at the same time get
> advice as to whether I should go for this product instead.
> Cost is secondary to hassle free setup and reliability.
> Product can be returned within 28 days for any reason,
> whatsoever.
>
> SilverCrest 500GB Portable Hard Drive £54.99
>
> With: Padded protective pouch
> Practical USB power supply
> 8 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm
>
> Specificaltions:
>
> Disk type - Toshiba SATA
> Capacity (GB) - 500
> Cache (MB) - 8
> Speed (rmp) - 5400
> Connection - USB 2
> Plug & Play - Yes
> Formatted - NTFS
>
> 3 year Manufacture's warranty


I'd buy a (commodity) Seagate over a (commodity) Toshiba HD
anyday.

But, who knows.......reading the reviews of the Seagate
Expansion Drives.....

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-
us/products/external/expansion/expansion_desktop#tTabContentRe
views

........reading reviews is a hit-n-miss anyway. I'm sure a lot
of bad reviews are PEBCAK errors......

or ..."yes, seagate expansion drives are great for data
storage and everything...but the only thing that is very
disappointing about it is its thin cover. not that i mean it's
simple or anything but just a while ago, my drive SLIPPED FROM
MY HAND and FELL. and now, i have to FORMAT and ERASE
EVERYTHING for it to work again...can someone do something
about this? you know, upgrade the cover so that files could
still be available even if it fell or something...upgrading it
with a harder cover would be so much useful....i'm sorry i
cannot fully express what i really want to express, i'm not
that good in english...but i hope you get what i mean and do
something about this...now do i really have to format my drive
so that it could work again? :/"......

....he gave it a low score because it didn't work after he
dropped it ?

89% of reviewers said they'd recommend this to others.

[Emrys Davies]

"DanS" > wrote in message
. 97.131...
> "Emrys Davies" > wrote in
> :
>
>> I have Win7 and WLM
>>
>> I was nearly off to buy a Segate Expansion 500 GB Portable
>> HD for £46.99 from PC World, but I saw this advert. and
>> thought I would share this info. and at the same time get
>> advice as to whether I should go for this product instead.
>> Cost is secondary to hassle free setup and reliability.
>> Product can be returned within 28 days for any reason,
>> whatsoever.
>>
>> SilverCrest 500GB Portable Hard Drive £54.99
>>
>> With: Padded protective pouch
>> Practical USB power supply
>> 8 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm
>>
>> Specificaltions:
>>
>> Disk type - Toshiba SATA
>> Capacity (GB) - 500
>> Cache (MB) - 8
>> Speed (rmp) - 5400
>> Connection - USB 2
>> Plug & Play - Yes
>> Formatted - NTFS
>>
>> 3 year Manufacture's warranty
>
>
> I'd buy a (commodity) Seagate over a (commodity) Toshiba HD
> anyday.
>
> But, who knows.......reading the reviews of the Seagate
> Expansion Drives.....
>
> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-
> us/products/external/expansion/expansion_desktop#tTabContentRe
> views
>
> .......reading reviews is a hit-n-miss anyway. I'm sure a lot
> of bad reviews are PEBCAK errors......
>
> or ..."yes, seagate expansion drives are great for data
> storage and everything...but the only thing that is very
> disappointing about it is its thin cover. not that i mean it's
> simple or anything but just a while ago, my drive SLIPPED FROM
> MY HAND and FELL. and now, i have to FORMAT and ERASE
> EVERYTHING for it to work again...can someone do something
> about this? you know, upgrade the cover so that files could
> still be available even if it fell or something...upgrading it
> with a harder cover would be so much useful....i'm sorry i
> cannot fully express what i really want to express, i'm not
> that good in english...but i hope you get what i mean and do
> something about this...now do i really have to format my drive
> so that it could work again? :/"......
>
> ...he gave it a low score because it didn't work after he
> dropped it ?
>
> 89% of reviewers said they'd recommend this to others.

Thanks for that. I have bought Segate Expansion 500GB and I have every
confidence in it.