WD Elements 500GB USB 3.0 portable hard drive - £39.99 @ Currys

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WD Elements 500GB USB 3.0 portable hard drive - £39.99 delivered @ Currys

£39.99 Currys3 Oct 12

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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Expelliarmus

3 Oct 12

This one is for delivery only, but delivery is free anyway.

Enjoy a rapid and practical style of portable lightweight data storage with the Western Digital Elements SE Portable Hard Drive.

Safe and secure data

The Western Digital Elements SE has a roomy 500GB of storage space, allowing for decent containment in this sturdy, transportable design.

Portability is key with the Western Digital Elements SE as you can take your stored information wherever you go, making it easy to carry and use at whichever computer you desire!

Backing up and storing information is simple and fast, as the special editions of the Western Digital Elements SE features USB 3.0 connectivity allowing transfer rates of up to 5 Gbit/s, as well as USB 2.0 connectivity.

Setting up the Western Digital Elements SE is simple, just connect the power and plug the drive in to a USB port to start saving your photos, music, videos and files in no time at all.

The Western Digital Elements SE Portable Hard Drive features a robust design, ensuring shock absorption and long term reliability as it offers effective, transportable hardware with superb space saving on any computer or laptop!

Product code: 966784

Top comments

118luke

4 Oct 12 26 #20

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5vdqthnb1qdyg71o1_1280.jpg

nigelwatkins

3 Oct 12 12 #5

wots the point if it aint got any decent films. cold

jewelie

4 Oct 12 5 #16

Cold. It's not an iPad 3.

:-)

muckilla to nigelwatkins

3 Oct 12 5 #4

Have you known many drives to come pre-loaded with films on from new? lol The simple answer is no this doesn't come with any pre-loaded films or music for that matter just like most if not all drives from new you buy today. :confused::neutral_face:

All comments (80)

kee66

3 Oct 12 #1

any idea if this works with my new samsung smart tv fot tv recording and time shift ?

kingnpuk

3 Oct 12 1 #2

same price at amazon

nigelwatkins

3 Oct 12 #3

has it got films?

muckilla to nigelwatkins

3 Oct 12 5 #4

cannibalwombat to nigelwatkins

4 Oct 12 #53

This guy... is hilarious!

nigelwatkins

3 Oct 12 12 #5

wots the point if it aint got any decent films. cold

vale of clwyd

3 Oct 12 #6

yeah wot he sed(_;)

Actually voted hot though would probably buy from Amazon rather than Currys

mjk

3 Oct 12 4 #7

Voted hot to counteract the silly vote above.

I've had my Western Digital hard drive for a good few years now and couldn't live without the thing. Very reliable and an invaluable piece of kit.

Zaim2012

3 Oct 12 #8

Good deal, usb 3 ftw.

"Currys.co.uk
is undergoing maintenance at the moment, we apologise for the inconvenience.

Please check back with us a little later on."

iSam

3 Oct 12 #9

Why would a portable hard drive come pre-loaded with films? Don't vote cold for that reason just because you can't understand that :neutral_face: Hot from me, thanks OP.

Finchster

3 Oct 12 1 #10

WD quality isnt what it used to be, however this seems to be the cheapest usb 500gb external I've seen, I'm really tempted but money is tight..

Anyway voted hot and yes its same price on amazon, probably less hassle for most.

:smile:

nigelwatkins

3 Oct 12 #11

better off getting the free film cd's out the paper

super_leeds_86 to nigelwatkins

4 Oct 12 #12

Good deal, nice to see drives coming down in price again.

That makes no sense whatsoever! Here go educate yourself and come back
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
(or maybe get lost somewhere else on the internet and don't! :man: )

belfast324 to nigelwatkins

4 Oct 12 3 #13

Wise kid ignore this guys post, obviously knows what the product is just trying to be annoying or accumulate enough posts to get a nice wee badge to show to his friends at school/work.

fzbob

4 Oct 12 #14

Ordered thanks (Amazon)...That's my sons birthday pressy done. :smirk:

KM4353

4 Oct 12 #15

Hillarious lol!

jewelie

4 Oct 12 5 #16

Cold. It's not an iPad 3.

:-)

Sharp7

4 Oct 12 1 #17

Nice price, I haven't had a bad experience with a WD HD yet. Still got an old WD passport 250gb thats keeping my plasma tv freesat recordings going

timefortea

4 Oct 12 #18

Good price, the last time I got portable 500Gb drives at this price was just before the flooding in Thailand.

chaos86

4 Oct 12 1 #19

Tempted, but might hold out for a 1tb instead. Hot!

118luke

4 Oct 12 26 #20

narcist

4 Oct 12 #21

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maq6zsoCOf1r5vha8.gif

Inquisitor

4 Oct 12 #22

Hmm, are all usb 3.0 hdds uses special cables/plugs?

muckilla to Inquisitor

4 Oct 12 #40

If you are trying to find out if you can use this on a USB 2.0 port then yes you can but if you mean do all 3.0 HDD's have these kind of plugs/connectors on the end then no these drives have their connectors built into their boards which means you couldn't remove this and use as an internal for a desktop if that's what you mean. Unsure tho on what you mean tho so don't know if any of that information helped.

bma1445

4 Oct 12 #23

Don't feed the troll!

Voted hot.

cleverduck

4 Oct 12 #24

Website down.

Quids

4 Oct 12 #25

Not voting until Curry's site is back up and deal still on. Been stung too many times by them. Should be hot IMO.

Inactive

4 Oct 12 #26

Great deal from Amazon, not so great if you have to use Currys.

Total

4 Oct 12 #27

Shame that we cannot use it as an internal drive in a laptop.
Anyway HOT!

118luke to Total

4 Oct 12 #31

You probably can, if you can take it out from the case. Not seen one in the flesh so don't know if its possible.

Sociopath

4 Oct 12 #28

Hot from myself. This is £71 on Amazon

blammo to Sociopath

4 Oct 12 2 #32

No it's the same price at time of writing:

http://charts.camelcamelcamel.com/uk/B005A97A86/amazon.png?force=1&zero=0&w=725&h=440&desired=false&legend=1&ilt=1&tp=all&fo=0

tedwonguk

4 Oct 12 #29

Does this need power plug as well, or just USB power

118luke to tedwonguk

4 Oct 12 #30

Portable/2.5" = USB Powered
External/3.5" = Mains Powered

vinceyeung

4 Oct 12 #33

for this portable drive, it's not able to disassemble and this drive is a bit thicker than the normal one so it's not able to put into laptops

UKseagull

4 Oct 12 #34

Will this work with a WD TV Live streaming?

RoscoP

4 Oct 12 #35

Good deal, have ordered. Many thanks.

Hot

Chivas Regal

4 Oct 12 #36

I'm sure the 1tb version of this is only £58.99!!!

wombat6025 to Chivas Regal

4 Oct 12 #37

It is, but a 1TB drive is only becomes better value when you use the 501st GB of storage :wink:

I am surprised at just how hot this has got (much hotter than the 1TB deal).

Cenobytez

4 Oct 12 #38

Hot, pity cant get on to currys website...........

Cenobytez

4 Oct 12 #39

yes, but i dont feel safe on using big drives, too easy to lose a shedload of data

EntrepidLORE

4 Oct 12 1 #41

The deal on amazon for the ones who can't find it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-500GB-Portable/dp/B005A97A86/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349358122&sr=8-1

rozza38

4 Oct 12 #42

Site down

rozza38

4 Oct 12 #43

Gone for the 1TB off Amazon for £58.99

muckilla to rozza38

4 Oct 12 #44

Direct from amazon at that price currently you will get "Temporarily out of stock. " just to save time for those wanting to go check that out.

UKseagull to rozza38

4 Oct 12 #45

Temporarily out of stock?

pulsex0r

4 Oct 12 #46

Thanks! heat added. Didn't even need it.. impulse buy :man:

Puppeh

4 Oct 12 #47

One thing I can never figure out with these usb3 drives, is that if you want to connect it to usb2, do you need a cable that connects to two usb2 ports? I can never spot anything on the specs that says one way or the other. The ones we have at work are usb2 only, but require two usb2 ports very close together due to the cable, and the three usb2 ports I have on my laptop are all spaced well apart from each other, so I can't use it.

wombat6025 to Puppeh

4 Oct 12 #49

Can't speak for the WD 500GB; but my Buffalo 1TB USB3.0 runs quite happily on a single USB 2.0 port (on my laptop, PC, TV and Blu-ray).
From the images on Currys this has a standard micro-b USB socket on the drive enclosure, although they don't show the cable I can't imagine it being anything other a standard micro-b USB to single USB cable.
Reviews on Amazon mention USB2.0 port (singular) and report it runs on TVs etc. so I can't see it needing two USB 2.0.

damadgeruk to Puppeh

4 Oct 12 #50

Unless you are plugging the drives at work into pretty old computers/laptops you'll probably find only one USB connection is required.

wombat6025

4 Oct 12 #48

I'm not too well-organised - I feel a lot safer knowing my important data is on my NAS and it's two backup drives - I find it hard enough keeping those in order :wink:

duberryboy1

4 Oct 12 #51

Hot deal, i picked this up when it was offer few months back.

hapless

4 Oct 12 #52

Ta OP!

Just got one.
Wanted to pick up from store as I have just bought £40 giftcards from Morrisons - no store local to me has stock! Nearest is over 20 miles away!! - as you can't use giftcards on line :disappointed:
Still, with the Boots cards I got as well I can now get 7p a litre discount when I next fill up!!

Coth

4 Oct 12 #54

Is this FAT32 or NTFS?

muckilla to Coth

4 Oct 12 #55

All have been pre-formatted in NTFS so far that ive used from WD so most likely NTFS as i wouldn't see why they'd change now if they have always used NTFS format for the most of their range. :smile:

323157

4 Oct 12 #56

How do i like something on here, i desperately want to like the 'no films, cold' . Trolling is a art.

DE4L3R

4 Oct 12 #57

must say , i love the design. rectangle with curves, they should sue apple. lol

muckilla to DE4L3R

4 Oct 12 #58

Yeah maybe if apple didn't sell and promote their HDD's on the apple website. If they tried to sue apple they would only be shooting themselves in the foot in the long run. :stuck_out_tongue:

Big Overdraft

4 Oct 12 #59

Just ordered 2. Got 1 last year and paid £64 and very happy with it. Happier with numerous smaller drives than 1 HUGE storage box.

muckilla to Big Overdraft

4 Oct 12 #60

Yeah sometimes its best to spread things out or in this case information/programs/files instead of putting them all in one basket or so to speak as it spreads out the risk of HDD failure in my opinion. :wink:

monkey82

4 Oct 12 #61

Finally given in and bought one. Just for PVR.

wombat6025

4 Oct 12 #62

I can't understand that reasoning. Assuming HDDs are good for a certain number of head movements / rotations regardless of capacity then increasing the number of disks increases the chance of having a disk fail. If you have adequate backups a disk failure is merely inconvenient of course; but more failures = more inconvenience.

muckilla

4 Oct 12 #63

Well its pretty simple. No need to go into dept of the situation lol. If you have two HDD's then maybe you may need to use one more due to having video's stored on there or music which you listern to frequently. Then on the other HDD say you have important work related files which you won't need to access as frequently right so chances are you are going to use the drive with the music on compared to the work so making that drive have more head movements / rotations compared to your work one... so theres more chance of that drive failing due to more usage than the work drive. If both of these drives were just one then there would be more chances of losing the information on that drive compared to spitting it onto two drives simple.

charlie brown

4 Oct 12 #64

Ordered Thanks - from amazon

I've used WD SE elements (USB2) before (along with other WD usb3 external drives) without any problems and still going strong.

albar76

4 Oct 12 #65

Seems 'nigelwatkins' isn't a great fan of Lidl either!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lidl-half-price-weekend-offers-1327870#post15653314

gyret

4 Oct 12 #66

Its an ok price but for an extra £18 you can get the 1TB version...

Steve7

4 Oct 12 #67

Ordered Thanks :smiley:

metdec1964

4 Oct 12 #68

bought from Amazon , cheers