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Hard Drives in Europe?
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May 26, 2004, 02:50 PM
 
I'm looking online for an external hard drive + firewire enclosure. Finding a reasonably priced site that will ship to Europe is proving difficult. Anyone know of any reliable online vendors of hard drives and such in Europe or that will ship here?

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May 26, 2004, 02:58 PM
 
You need to watch out, because the Metric MB is 1,024 bytes, while the Imperial MB is 1,000 bytes. So, if you order a 200 GB drive from the U.S., your European computer will only report it as about 190 Metric GB.



Seriously, though, you might want to look for the firewire enclosure and the hard drive separately...

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May 27, 2004, 02:49 AM
 
Seriously, though, you might want to look for the firewire enclosure and the hard drive separately...
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May 27, 2004, 05:21 AM
 
Yes well I am of course. You guys are a fountain of information. No one has a European version of newegg for me?

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May 27, 2004, 06:16 AM
 
I use www.preissuchmaschine.de . They're in German, but their linked dealers should ship within the EU.

And a LaCie d2 250GB is called the same in German or English.

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May 27, 2004, 07:18 AM
 
Klasse!

Not bad at all.... doesn't take a genius to figure out hard drive = festplatte.

Firewire enclosure on the other hand could prove a bit trickier...

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May 27, 2004, 10:40 AM
 
Why not ebay? I found the cheapest deals there!
     
   
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