What Have You Just Ordered or Received?

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 18 Sep 2007, 17:33

10x 2TB Western Digital My Book Premium II's mispriced at £25 each.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Sep 2007, 17:48

2TB wow that's some storage!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:53

TB? Terrabyte? WOW

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 18 Sep 2007, 20:22

I shouldn't mention my 4x8TB raid arrays and 25TB tape library then eh.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 18 Sep 2007, 20:25

Lourdes wrote:10x 2TB Western Digital My Book Premium II's mispriced at £25 each.

Wow nice find Lourdes

, I'm looking for a NAT drive, Do you have any recommendation? I've seen the Maxor one in Maplins

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 18 Sep 2007, 21:08

I assume you mean NAS, as in a drive you connect over the network/webternets.
I don't think much of ANY NAS drives/enclosures, they're all so overpriced. You can get a 500GB Feecom for around £100 which isn't too bad, however apparently you have to use FAT32 with its 4GB filesize limit if you want to access it from your network. For about £120 you can probably snag a 500GB Western Digital My World but I hear they're rather slow. Seperate enclosures aren't worth AT ALL because the pricing is just obscene.
It's rather pricey when you consider that you can get a 500GB USB2 drive for about £65. If you really need a NAS rather than direct attached storage internal or external (which you can always then share on your network) then you might consider the Buffalo LinkStation products. They're not cheap but in addition to their onboard capacity you can connect USB drives so you can expand your storage for less and I hear they perform very well compared to others.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Sep 2007, 21:31

I presume these are for business purposes?

I have a 120Gb hard disk in my laptop and an 80Gb 2.5" usb hard disk for backing up

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 18 Sep 2007, 21:42

Thanks Lourdes, Yup NAS boxes,

I think I will get the following:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ITA ... y=18m9#faq

It can use NTFS

Bradavon wrote: I presume these are for business purposes?

Kinda, It will hold some of my source codes for work, but also video files, which I can stream over the network to my XBOX. That way I can clear up hard drive space on my PC

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Sep 2007, 22:28

Cool. I'd never fill that much space, personally.

I'm sure you can beat Maplin price, they're expensive.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 18 Sep 2007, 22:34

bradavon wrote:I presume these are for business purposes?

Pleasure. All my media - music, DVD's, BD, HDTV etc are on storage servers I built and backed up to a tape library.

For business storage I have several little portable arrays that use 2.5" drives.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Sep 2007, 22:51

That sounds mightily impressive, expensive though.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 19 Sep 2007, 09:00

I received:

Irma Vep
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men S2

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 19 Sep 2007, 09:39

Grim, YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT ENOUGH.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 19 Sep 2007, 10:08

captainjoe · Post by **captainjoe** » 19 Sep 2007, 22:04

Food of the Gods
Deliverance HD-DVD
Alligator
Cujo 25th anniversary

From DVDpacific

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Sep 2007, 10:00

Batman (CD-WOW rentals)

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 20 Sep 2007, 12:36

Lourdes wrote:10x 2TB Western Digital My Book Premium II's mispriced at £25 each.

I got an invoice today showing £2250~ due and later a call to follow it up. I laughed a little, I'm in the right.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 20 Sep 2007, 12:39

Lourdes wrote:
Lourdes wrote:10x 2TB Western Digital My Book Premium II's mispriced at £25 each.
I got an invoice today showing £2250~ due and later a call to follow it up. I laughed a little, I'm in the right.

Really what did you say to them? Have they kept the price for 25 pounds for you?

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 20 Sep 2007, 16:22

As I understand it once you're charged for something the supplier has entered into a clear contract to supply what you've ordered at the price you've paid. Some suppliers will try and wiggle out of this but only if they realize it before dispatch. I don't know if anyone has legally challenged a supplier in an instance like that but sometimes they relent anyway.
In my case they didn't notice and they sent me a lovely invoice with what I received and the price I was charged clearly laid out.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 20 Sep 2007, 22:15

Since all of Warner's Blu-rays have been region free so far, I have pre-ordered the 5-disc of Blade Runner from Amazon.com. Under £18 including p&p, bargain

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2007, 14:56

Fight Club: Definitive Edition - £6.22 delivered from Amazon Marketplace (new).

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2007, 15:56

I also ordered: Opium and the Kung Fu Master (Shaw Bros) with CD WOW.

DO CD WOW accept denit cards?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 22 Sep 2007, 11:06

Mark have you seen "Opium and the Kung Fu Master"?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Sep 2007, 11:11

WTF is a denit card? Do you mean debit? As long as it's with a major credit card vendor like Visa/Mastercard, I really don't see why they'd deny it.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 22 Sep 2007, 11:50

Oops, I meant debit

CD-WOW accept debit cards, yeah