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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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 Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: Hard Drive Upgrade |
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| I'm updating the system. I've picked out a 400GB external HD from eBay for $200. Is this right? 400 is a good number and the price is right. Am I good on that? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| Not. Terrible all around. I think you lose. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for th help Demo. I think you are typical of IT support agencies. All atittude and no help. This is why society is glad to outsource IT jobs. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for th help Demo. I think you are typical of IT support agencies. All atittude and no help. This is why society is glad to outsource IT jobs. |
Okay. Specifics.
Is it a good deal? Quite likely - if it's a new and reliable product. On eBay? More than likely refurbished.
Shipping cost? Don't forget to add that.
Import duties into Korea to protect poor little Samsung who couldn't possibly survive without the extra 10 - 20% they add to the cost of any competing non-Korean products.
Delivery service - make sure it's good. After all, many of the mailmen here seem to get their jobs by being too incompetent to do anything more useful, like sitting in a chair at the bottom of a building somewhere. Some might consider me bitter than the mailman lost a wedding invitation to my best friend's wedding, gave a package of useful goodies to a Korean down the street at a totally different house, and time-critical University documents to the Korean in the same building but on a different floor. Maybe they're right, I am bitter. But it doesn't change the fact that I cannot trust Korea Post - and neither should you.
Basics - the price for the merchandise is good, if it's for genuine new product. Getting it here adds to the cost and risks, and should be factored in.
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Demo gave you sound advice as did muggie2. Sounds 'too good to be true' usually is, especially on eBay.
Feeling lucky? Go ahead and buy it and then you can tell us how wrong we were. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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I was only trying to dance the dolouz. 
IT job? Not me...ever.
Ebay? Not me...never.
Heck...HDDs are dirt cheap new....why bother with one from Ebay? Why is it up for sale anyways?
Buy a new one and get fresh bad sectors to call your own, I say. |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:03 am Post subject: |
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I'm completely with the 'phobe on this one.
You don't want to buy a second hand HD do you? They're cheap enough new. What is more important the HD or the data you store on it? I have lots of valuable data on my hardrives, I wouldn't want one to fail on me so I buy fairly expensive ones with a good pedigree.
All the most important stuff I back up anyway. 400gb is nice but why do you need that much? If you're too lazy to back up and want everything on the drive then it's great but if the drive dies you are knackered.
Also wont a drive that have a much larger 'seek time' for data. Keep it lean, clean and keen, just like a gf |
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