IT Show 2009.
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No. Moral: organize your storage, make a proper concept in terms of safety and resilience. Minimize the impact of a single component failing by having data redundancy. RAID1 is not rocket science and all standard mainbords with SATA controller support this. Single external HDD are not suitable for longterm storage, they only serve as a quick transport from system A to system B. There are external enclosures supporting RAID1 and RAID5. But they costs a few bucks more than the el cheapo USB enclosures.
People always jumping for the newest gadgets should not be surprised if things fail soon. Technology needs time to mature and this is contradicting the standard marketing approach. Professional storage vendors use 300GB disks (or maybe slowly going to 500GB now), they know why.
... correct lor.. you sell the freebies if you dont need it. if you manage to sell, total cost of actual purchase reduce
For DSLR normally dey offer wif bundle. U intent to upgrade Ur DSLR,my fri.?< hee..
yup, planning to get a D90 (or D300) but 90% towards D90, hehehe
For mid-range,D90 e BEST :thumbsup:. For semi-pro,D300 or D700 e BEST :thumbsup:.
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moi will be looking out for broadband offers..my snbb just finished
hopefully macbook offer is up again!
Mine finished last month but so far see nothing attractive from the Telcos yet :sweat:
moi will be looking out for broadband offers..my snbb just finished
hopefully macbook offer is up again!
Mine was up back in Dec. A little info was leaked by a SNBB call officer that the macbook offer may just pop up during the show when she called me up to recontract and I gave them a firm No to such lousy offer at the moment. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will become a reality.
Mine was up back in Dec. A little info was leaked by a SNBB call officer that the macbook offer may just pop up during the show when she called me up to recontract and I gave them a firm No to such lousy offer at the moment. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will become a reality.
oo...will be on the look out then...actually i want the macbook or any high value item for interest free instant cash loan. :bsmilie:
Nowaday, dealer use receipt as warranty card lei. For IT equipement, they will asked you to keep the receipt as warranty card or asked you to login to the product website to register the warranty. Normally during such IT fair the harddisk is much cheaper then normal. last june I saw the WD 230 GB Harddisk was selling for $199 during the last day of the fair. I hesitated to buy till now I cannot find another 230 GB below $199 again.
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Normally during this kind of fair, it's only the big timer like Courts or Harvey Norman sell those DSLR and they always sell at Retail price. The most they can do is to add in some Freebies but when you add them all up together, it's still more expensive then you buying them separately at shops outside. This is my 2 cents.
This is what I do for the issue of hdd storing issue:
I get myself a Maxtor Buffalo 500gb desktop external hdd (the ones where you have to plug in power supply and bulky that its not convenient to bring anywher) and a portable ones 250gb or 320gb. Backup on both hdd. Try not to move the one on my desk as hdd failures mostly are due to impacts on the hdd when moving them around.
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ahtiow
I get myself a Maxtor Buffalo 500gb desktop external hdd (the ones where you have to plug in power supply and bulky that its not convenient to bring anywher) and a portable ones 250gb or 320gb. Backup on both hdd. Try not to move the one on my desk as hdd failures mostly are due to impacts on the hdd when moving them around.
Cheers
ahtiow
My observations so far:
1. Best bargain / Costronic are where the cheapest cards can be found
2. Sandisk normally not much lower
3. LCD Monitors are cheap
4. HDD are cheap (remember I got my 120gb WD my passport 1 year ago for only 100+)
5. Camera stuffs are limited and not cheaper
6. Laptops are (normally) not cheaper: lower price but strange configuration
Nevertheless, I always got sick after a few hours trying to move through the crowd at the fair
1. Best bargain / Costronic are where the cheapest cards can be found
2. Sandisk normally not much lower
3. LCD Monitors are cheap
4. HDD are cheap (remember I got my 120gb WD my passport 1 year ago for only 100+)
5. Camera stuffs are limited and not cheaper
6. Laptops are (normally) not cheaper: lower price but strange configuration
Nevertheless, I always got sick after a few hours trying to move through the crowd at the fair
Nowaday, dealer use receipt as warranty card lei. For IT equipement, they will asked you to keep the receipt as warranty card or asked you to login to the product website to register the warranty. Normally during such IT fair the harddisk is much cheaper then normal. last june I saw the WD 230 GB Harddisk was selling for $199 during the last day of the fair. I hesitated to buy till now I cannot find another 230 GB below $199 again.
230Gb for $199 ? That's extremely expensive! Are we talking about SCSI drives here ? :think:
I just got myself a 500Gb 2.5" drive for $169/-. Now put it in a eSATA case, runs just like an internal drive when connected! :thumbsup:
got IT fair ar?
cool. just nice with the garment give us the gst offset thing... hahaha.
lets go boost our economy
cool. just nice with the garment give us the gst offset thing... hahaha.
lets go boost our economy
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