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Title: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [TiG]the_syco on November 23, 2011, 10:11:26 PM
Hello all,

Mates hard drive has recently started to get the "click of death", and thus needs a new hard-drive. He'll be driving up to Belfast at the weekend for a gig, and thus shall kill two birds with the one stone by getting a new hard-drive up there.

So, I'm looking for a shop in Belfast city that sells hard-drives. Preferably one that sells Western Digital, as I've gotten burnt by Maxtor, who are now part of Seagate (or the other way around).



tl;dr - need a shop that sells Western Digital SATA hard-drives in Belfast city.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [TiG]Lucutus on November 23, 2011, 10:16:51 PM
WD HDD's are gold dust since the great flood! (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221409/Hard_drive_shortage_expected_to_hurt_consumers_most)

Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [TiG]the_syco on November 23, 2011, 10:39:51 PM
Quote from: [TiG]Lucutus on November 23, 2011, 10:16:51 PM
WD HDD's are gold dust since the great flood! (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221409/Hard_drive_shortage_expected_to_hurt_consumers_most)
Aye, read about that. So it's lucky he got me to look at his PC now, and not in a months time :D

Still, he needs a HDD, that's at least 500GB's, as the software he uses, ProTools, needs two HDD's to record, so he has to replace the dying one to ensure he can continue to record.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [GIT]Fairy on November 23, 2011, 11:10:47 PM
PC World outside Belfast at Lisburn afaik.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [TiG]Lucutus on November 24, 2011, 12:10:38 AM
Anyone serious about recording music is using a Mac!
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [TiG]the_syco on November 24, 2011, 02:57:05 AM
Quote from: [TiG]Lucutus on November 24, 2011, 12:10:38 AM
Anyone serious about recording music is using a Mac!
The Digi002 was about ?1500 I think, and he just used the Dell he had. To be honest, it does the job.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [GiT]Kel on November 24, 2011, 07:07:30 PM
MPLEX in smithfield market, behind Castlecourt Shopping center, Belfast.

Give them a bell to check tho
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [TiG]the_syco on November 24, 2011, 07:36:56 PM
Quote from: Kel on November 24, 2011, 07:07:30 PM
MPLEX in smithfield market, behind Castlecourt Shopping center, Belfast.

Give them a bell to check tho
I've been told that they have closed down by one of my mates' nordie mates.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [GiT] Karma on November 24, 2011, 08:47:41 PM
Wonder if Maplin do PC parts?

Theres one on the boucher road.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [GiT] Karma on November 24, 2011, 08:48:19 PM
Quote from: Kel on November 24, 2011, 07:07:30 PM
MPLEX in smithfield market, behind Castlecourt Shopping center, Belfast.

Give them a bell to check tho


This would be better actually and dead handy too.
Title: Re: Need a computer parts shop in Belfast
Post by: [GiT]Kel on November 24, 2011, 09:29:56 PM
Quote from: [TiG]the_syco on November 24, 2011, 07:36:56 PM
Quote from: Kel on November 24, 2011, 07:07:30 PM
MPLEX in smithfield market, behind Castlecourt Shopping center, Belfast.

Give them a bell to check tho
I've been told that they have closed down by one of my mates' nordie mates.

Nordie mates! Lies lies!

Aye the one in dargan (near the docks) has closed. The one in smithfield is defo still open.
There is also another one in Lisburn.