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HARD DRIVES

There are a large number of hard drives on the market today, so I have carefully selected the drives below  for their build quality, performance and price. All drives are OEM unless otherwise stated.

  3.5" PARALLEL ATA  

Western Digital Caviar SE

 


8MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

160

£30.49

250

£38.76

320

£43.42

500

£58.49


16MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

500

£75.19

 

Special OfferWestern
Digital
Caviar SE

    Features:  PATA Interface, 7,200rpm rotation speed,  8MB-16MB cache, 3-year warranty

Cool-running, quiet operation, superior performance and industry-leading reliability make these WD Caviar SE - Parallel ATA drives the perfect hard drives for desktop and enterprise storage.

 

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Parallel Connection
Parallel Connector
40-Way PATA

 


Seagate Barracuda 7200


8MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

160

£34.06

250

£39.94


16MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

320

£41.42

400

£49.98

500

£62.99

750

£99.99

 

Special OfferSeagate
Barracuda
7200

   Features:  PATA Interface, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 8MB-16MB cache, 5-year warranty

Seagate Barracuda drives provide high-performance, highly reliable storage for PCs and advanced applications. Their best-in-class combination of capacity, performance, and support ideally suit them for such applications as high-performance PCs, media PCs, ATA-based servers and RAIDs.

 

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Parallel Connection
Parallel Connector
40-Way PATA

  3.5" SERIAL ATA  

 

Western Digital VelociRaptor

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

150

£128.08

300

£178.59

 

New ProductWestern
Digital
'VelociRaptor'

   Features:  SATA Interface, 10,000rpm rotation speed, 16MB cache, 5-year warranty

The VelociRaptor is the world's fastest Serial ATA drive.

Western Digital's Raptor hard drives are a new class of hard drive that matches SCSI reliability and performance while providing simplified connectivity.

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Serial Connection
Serial Connector
7-Way SATA

 

  3.5" SERIAL ATA II  

Western Digital Caviar


8MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

320

£41.00


16MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

 

250

£34.96

500

£45.81

750

£89.99

1000

£91.64


32MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

 

1000

£121.01

 

 

Special OfferWestern
Digital
Caviar

   Features:  SATA II Interface, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 8MB-16MB cache, 3-year warranty

Western Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives with features and capacities that are ideal for next-generation computers and low-end enterprise storage. Users benefit from a data transfer rate performance roadmap that begins with 150 MB/s and extends to 600 MB/s, as well as improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages that the SATA interface provides.

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Serial Connection
Serial Connector
7-Way SATA II

 

Western Digital Caviar RE2
 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

 

320

£52,43

400

£54.78

750

£112.99

 

Western
Digital
Caviar RE2

   Features:  SATA II Interface, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 16MB cache, 5-year warranty

Life in a desktop computer doesn't compare to the extreme environment in an always-on, high duty cycle RAID system. What's needed is a drive engineered to thrive in a high-intensity RAID system while still offering traditional low cost-per-capacity desktop value. That drive is the WD RE. Designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards, WD RE drives provide enhanced reliability in a 24x7, continuous duty cycle environment.

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Serial Connection
Serial Connector
7-Way SATA II
 

 

 

Seagate Barracuda 7200


8MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

80

£24.66


16MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

250

£36.55

320

£48.54

400

£65.80


32MB Cache

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

500

£54.99

750

£97.98

1000

£151.99

 

Special OfferSeagate
Barracuda
7200

   Features:  SATA II Interface, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 8MB-16MB cache, NCQ, 5-year warranty

Western Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives with features and capacities that are ideal for next-generation computers and low-end enterprise storage. Users benefit from a data transfer rate performance roadmap that begins with 150 MB/s and extends to 600 MB/s, as well as improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages that the SATA interface provides.

For more information

 

Serial Connection
Serial Connector
7-Way SATA

 

  3.5" EXTERNAL  

Western Digital MyBook

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

320

£58.74

500

£64.61

750

£89.29

1000

£111.61

 

Western
Digital
MyBook
Essential

   Features:  USB 2 Interface, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 8MB cache, USB Cable Inc.

Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug this drive in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies.

 

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USB B
USB Connector
Female

 

  eSATA STORAGE  


Western Digital MyBook

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

500

£82.24

1000

£151.56

 

Western
Digital
MyBook
Home Edition

   Features:  eSATA-300,  USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 Interfaces, High speed SATA drive, USB and Firewire Cables Inc.

Speed is what you need for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and that’s what this drive delivers with FireWire 400 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them.


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USB
B
Firewire
400
eSATA Connection
USB Connector & Firewire Connector & Serial Connector
Female   Female   Female

 

  NETWORK STORAGE  


Buffalo LinkStationPC PRO Recommended

 

 

 

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

320

£123.36

500

£125.71

750

£152.74

1000

£176.24

 

 

Buffalo LinkStation Pro
Network Drive

   Features:  Network Interface, High speed SATA drive, RJ45 Cable Inc.

The LinkStation Pro Network Shared Storage from Buffalo Technology offers an easy and economic solution to add 250 Gigabytes of network-attached storage. Quick and simple installation allows you to instantly store and share important documents, presentations, multimedia and other files from any computer on your home or office network!

 

RJ45
RJ45 Connector
Connection

 

  2.5" PARALLEL ATA  

 

Seagate Momuntus

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

40

£32.00

120

£37.99

160

£39.99

 

Special OfferSeagate
Momentus

   Features:  PATA Interface, 9.5" High, 5,400rpm rotation speed, 8MB cache

Momentus 5400.3 Series is the first Seagate product to utilize perpendicular recording technology. This innovative technology enables Seagate to deliver the industry's highest capacity in a single, 2.5-inch disc drive without sacrificing best-in-class features.

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Parallel Connection
Parallel Connector
44-Way PATA

 

  2.5" SERIAL ATA  

 

Seagate Momuntus

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

160

£69.99

200

£84.55

250

£111.13

320

£131.41

 

Seagate
Momentus

   Features:  SATA II Interface, 9.5" High, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 16MB cache

Seagate Momentus 7200.2/3 enables the freedom of mobility and maximum productivity with 7200-RPM performance. With capacities up to 320 Gbytes, Momentus 7200.2/3 provides plenty of room to support the richest of multimedia applications.

Seagate also extends Serial ATA with native command queuing as an option to support multi-drive environments and to deliver higher performance in aggressive applications.

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Serial Connection
Serial Connector
7-Way SATA

 

 

Western Digital Scorpio Black

 

Size
(GB)

Price (inc VAT)

 

250

£82.99

320

£114.99

 

New ProductWestern
Digital
Scorpio

   Features:  SATA II Interface, 9.5" High, 7,200rpm rotation speed, 16MB cache

Designed with top-of-the-line notebook computers in mind, this high performance drive delivers the capacity and speed needed to supercharge a notebook PC without compromising battery life or quiet acoustics. Features like these also make this drive an outstanding option for compact desktops, external hard drives, gaming systems, and blade servers.

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Serial Connection
Serial Connector
7-Way SATA

 

  2.5" EXTERNAL  


 

Iomega eGo


 

Colour

Price (inc VAT)

 

Midnight
Blue

£64.61

Camour-flage

£73.43

Brown
Leather

£72.84

 

New ProductIomega
eGo 250GB

   Features:  USB2 Interface, 1.9cm High, 5,400rpm rotation speed, 8MB cache

Take files anywhere, in style, with the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive 250 GB USB 2.0 – an extremely durable drive which includes patent pending Drop Guard feature to withstand the toughest of travel environments. Plus, the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive requires no external power supply and includes a free EMC Retrospect HD backup software license.

Dimensions (WxDxH): 7.4 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
 

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