Hi Guys.
Trying to pass on a bit of good fortune, spread the joy so to speak.
But I'm bulk buying these hard drives though my work for my field team. And as such I get a pretty good discount. So if anyone wanted one I'm happy to pass them on to you at what they cost me. Plus postage of course.
Its basically a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive in a caddy that converts it to USB.
I use them lot for back up, or just moving stuff around. Even have one in the post at the moment on its way to my sister in Canada with a load of films and music on it for her.
They are 160 GB which is more than enough for day to day use I find.
12cm long, 7 cm wide and just over 1 cm thick.
They come with the USB lead that has 2 power inputs in case your laptop lacks the grunt to fire them up on just one port. I've never had a problem though. And they also come with a rather naff, cheap and crap sleeve. But at least its stops them getting scratched in your pocket / laptop case.
A few pics, I've put an IPhone 3GS in the first picture just for size comparison. ( phone is on the far left)
and thats the naff case under them with the USB lead on top.
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At the moment I have 4 of them for sale, one black, 1 silver and 2 blue.
Can also get them in red.
If anyone wants one they are just £15 each plus postage, but even that will just be stamp value, I don't charge for packing as I "borrow" it from work ;-)
I probably have about 20 more that I can order on that discount rate.
So if you fancy a specific colour then let me know and I will order it in.
Other wise I will probably just order them in black or silver and you get lucky dip !
So...
Anyone interested??
I use these and they are brilliant... Just slap in the drive and away you go... ;-)up
Great price, usb powered too. Im alright thanks but folks out there, if you have a computer which is not backed up with an external drive - get one!!!!!
(there are 2x types of computer hard drive - those that have failed and those that are yet to fail! And you don't want to loose all that data!)
I'll take one mate how and when do you want paying :D
What colour do you want shaggy ?
I can probably drop it over one evening this week if you like ?
Or and I just post it and you can pay when I see you ?
Don't mind mate what colour.
I'm on afternoons this week so I won't be home till late.....missus will be home in the evening though ;-)up
Is she gonna behave herself ?
;)
If anyones unsure about backing up... Like me! ;D
My windows7 has 'RoboCopy' built in. so I just run a couple of batch files, in it I have set the command line switches so it just runs through
and bombs out at the end..
It saves navigating to several places and manually copying each directory or whatever you have... I just plug in the drive and run the .bat file
Like this...
robocopy C:\CoffeeCup\MyWebsite H:\CoffeeCup\MyWebsite /S /A /ETA /PURGE
robocopy C:\Downloads H:\Downloads /S /A /ETA /PURGE
robocopy C:\Users\Peter\Downloads H:\Users\Peter\Downloads /S /A /ETA /PURGE
robocopy C:\Users\Peter\Pictures\AutoCollage H:\Users\Peter\AutoCollage /S /A /ETA /PURGE
robocopy C:\MyBackUp H:\MyBackUp /S /A /ETA /PURGE
Where /S = include subdirectories /A=Copy only files with the archive attribute set. ie New or Changed files only! Skipping files already
backed up that are unchanged /ETA= Show estimated time of arrival of copied files /PURGE = Deletes destination files that no longer exist in source
Thats what I do any way.......... ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: child of the 70s on January 19, 2014, 07:52:56 PM
Is she gonna behave herself ?
;)
I promise to be on my best behaviour. ;D ;D ;D
Dan,
I'll take one please Dude.
Colour not an issues, whatever is left is fine.
Don't worry about postage, as I may be able to make the long journey to pick it up.... ;-)up ;-)up
Thanks
Chad
No problem bud.
:-)
About time you sampled my tea making skills !
Yow mentioned Tea....
How can I refuse?
When's best buddy?
If you have any more I'll take one bud
Got plenty of them Steve.
I will put one with the other bits I have here for you.
Chad.
Anytime you fancy really bud. Home by half 5 each day this week as I'm on a training course in the wilds of west brom !
You must check out the NEW SQUARE - still half boarded up to match the rest of the high street ;D ;D
But I did help build the new ring road though
And the underpass has been shut since before Xmas because ????..
Well you see teh underpass is not the inner ring road its the BYPASS....
Seriously though, it was coming to the end of its 12 month maintenance period when teh contractors have to hand back teh road to teh Council for them to take on and maintain. As part of the final snagging it was identified that the surfacing was substandard and too pourous after testing, which allowed ground water to permeate up and could cause possible issues later on with freeze thaw damage. SO before teh council will take it back, teh contractor at their expense, have to resurface it to ensure teh good residents of Sandwell don't have to pay for putting it right in teh future.
But no-one sees that and generally its all the council's fault ::)
By teh way teh = the.... I just can't seem to stop it when I am typing....
All I read then was blah blah blah.
It's shut
Blah blah.
Question is .... When will it reopen ????
Quote from: child of the 70s on January 21, 2014, 04:50:27 PM
All I read then was blah blah blah.
What exactly did you expect from talking with Chad ? ::) ;D ;D
:P
OK Dan,
Its Bust ay it ;-)up ;-)up ;-)up ;-)up ;-)up
And Dave
Blah '''ollocks ;D ;D ;D ;D
Not following ??
Something about black pays ???
Hi Dan, can you get us one for Vanessa please? Whatever colour you have as long as it's red metal flake!! ;-)up Let us know how to pay you
cheers Allan
I can do red ..... You will have to add the flake though !
You sure you want her copying your car colour ? That's almost as bad as copying someone's roof colour ! ;-)
Want me to hold on to it till MBC ?
lol yeah that's great but can you make it 2 please? Vans mum wants one now!
Yep.
Think I only have 1 red one at the moment though.
I can order another if you like ?
Or will blue or silver be ok ?
Yea blue or silver ok, don't mind colour, thanks ;-)up
No prob bud.
I will bring a few with me in case other see what a great deal it is !
They are sold on eBay for £30 plus postage !
can you put me down for a black one and a blue one please give them to benw at the weekend when you see him he will sort the cash out with ya m8
muzzy
No problem Muzzy.
cheers m8
Hi Dan
Could you put me down for one as last time I was thinking about getting one decided not too then a few weeks later CRASH!!! Lost everything!!
Any colour will do pal. How do you want paying.
Cheers
Mark
No problem bud.
You can pay pal me if you like ?
Send me your address, I will post you one.
Check it's what you want then you can pay or send it back
Can't get any fairer than that :-)
Any left I'll take one
plenty left Gary
fire me your address.
thanks m8 went over and collected mine today
cheers
muzzy