John Gill(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 28th October 2003, 00:07
Maplins are selling 120 gig hard drives for £69-99 but only until the weekend. If you go to their web site and sign up for their newsletter then you get £6 off and free P & P, bringing it down to £63-99. Be quick if you`re interested as they`ll go fast at that price.
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
Budgie55(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 28th October 2003, 11:09
dammit I may just have to get me one of those.
Bit wary as it doesnt show make or model.
Some manufacturers are better than others!.
Anyone purchased one of these and knows what make/model it is?
Nice spot anyway as I say may be tempted :D
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
Fred Smith(Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 28th October 2003, 16:45
They are Hitachi / IBM but you may find them cheaper at E-buyer.
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
theclaretvillain(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 28th October 2003, 17:40
eBuyer is £68.98 with delivery
Maplin is £63.99 inc. del. if £6 voucher is used
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
kipster(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 29th October 2003, 08:52
Thanks for spotting this offer, i`ve picked up one meself :)
Hmmm lots of storage... ;)
Makes me chukle to think my first PC had a 30Mb HDD :)
I couldn`t think of anything witty.
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
Miles(Elite Donator) posted this on Wednesday, 29th October 2003, 09:17
Same here...although mine was 20Mb!
I now have 320Gb of hard drive space (before the formatting!)...but at the prices people are selling them at (under 70p per Gig!) it would be rude not to :)
"I didn`t lose my mind, it was mine to give away"
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
tazz(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 29th October 2003, 09:19
I know I`m gonna sound really dumb here but does anyone have links to installing a hard drive for a beginner, I`ve opened my PC up and I just can`t see where I would fit an extra one in. Is it usual to just take the old one out and not have two running? Sorry if this seems a bit basic but all I`ve done before is add memory and change a graphics card.
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
Fred Smith(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 29th October 2003, 09:34
HDD prices fluctuate that is why I said "maybe" cheaper.
Regarding first HDD's mine was 10Mb.
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RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
sput2001(Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 29th October 2003, 10:37
Quote: does anyone have links to installing a hard drive for a beginner
It`s usually a fair bit easier to add a second hard drive than replace your existing one, as long as your pc has a slot for a second one. Completely replacing a hard drive isn`t that difficult though, although I`ve not done it myself :D .
RE: Cheap hard drives at Maplins
DokF(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Wednesday, 29th October 2003, 22:57
Just to add that mine first was a 1 Gig, slapped it into a A1200, My dads first was only 20gig, from a super fast compaq 286 with 4mb of ram costing £3000 for a dot matrix, and a Modem, before the internet, wow, i didnt see this coming, wouldnt be in a mess if i did.
Thank you
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