[access-uk] Maxter 750GB external hard drive

  • From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "Access UK Mailing List" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:33:54 -0000

Hi All

Following Andy Logue's recent posts about a Maxter external hard drive he 
bought, we decided to go to our nearest branch of Maplin in Edinburgh today.  
We have been looking to increase the size on the drives we already have, and 
since it has been an absolutely gorgeous day, thought we would take a trip out.

We have indeed bought the Maxter 750GB, though they sold it to us at £109.99, 
but I didn't argue over the few pounds more than Andy paid at his Glasgow store.

Ian is currently copying our music collection over to the new drive, and it 
seems quite nifty.  The only slightly annoying aspect of buying larger drives 
is that you lose a lot of space due to the formatting.  For example, on this 
drive, the free space available is 698.whatever on a total of 750GB.  That's 
just about 50GB lost.  I've noticed the larger the drives, the more formatting 
space is used.

Anyhow, this certainly appears to be a good buy if anyone is thinking of 
upgrading.  Thanks Andy very much for bringing that to our attention.

Jackie

Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
Skype Name: Cairnsplace

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