Where can I buy a toshiba alu2 with online shipping to an international destination?

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Been looking around for a 1TB 2.5" Toshiba Alu2 hard drive and as I live in New Zealand I have to buy online. My problem is I can seam to find a store that ships internationally... There are alot of UK shops selling them but they only ship within the UK and Ireland. Anyone out there managed to find somewhere that ships internationally?!
Thanks for the links guys but have been looking around for what hdd suits me and I have decided I really want an alu2 and only an alu2. Unfortunately it only seams to be available in central Europe. Amazon doesn't seam to stock them and amazon.co.uk doesn't ship to NZ... :(
I'm aware the Toshiba Canvio is available to me but I'm more interested in the alu2 for the aluminum casing I don't need the USB 3.0 version and it costs more anyway.

Is there anyone out there who knows of an online shop with international shipping for these? Even Ebay only has a couple of the 500GB versions.

Answer
1TB Canvio⢠3.0 Plus USB3.0 Portable External Hard Drive E05A100PBU3XS
Part Number - E05A100PBU3XS
USB 3.0 with up to 5Gb/s** transfer rate
Toshiba Canvio⢠Portable Hard Drives are a simple solution to all your storage and backup needs.
RRP $360.00 NZD (inc. GST)
http://www.mytoshiba.co.nz/products/storage/portable-hdd/e05a100pbu3xs


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⢠Interface: USB 3.0 with up to 5Gb/s** transfer rate (backward compatible with USB 2.0 with up to 480Mb/s2 transfer rate)
⢠In the box: One Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drive w/preloaded backup software, USB 3.0 Cable (works with USB 2.0) and Quick Install Guide
... just if you had any doubts

can you format a hard drive without erasing the data on it or get the data off it while it has a raw format?

jeremy j

Answer
Formatting Basics
Formatting a hard drive means to erase it, although sometimes the data can be recovered. So companies/governments use programs such as http://dban.sourceforge.net/ that overwrites each part of the hard drive multiple times.

Re-install Operating System (OS)
I would recommend buying/using another hard drive that has enough space to store your files. Then format your computer, reinstall the OS and then put all the information back from the portable drive.

Hard Drive Failure
Just get a new hard drive and then set the hard drive that failed to slave and then add a new hard drive as master (install OS on it) and then move the information from one drive to the other.

Post Formatting Hard Drive Recovery
*NOT GUARANTEED*
If you have formatted your information and need to recover data, however, you can use software such as:
TuneUp Software Utilities 2007 http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/
or hire services such as:
http://www.salvagedata.com/

Source:
http://www.google.com/search?q=hard+drive+recovery
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Side comments
To the person above, the CIA can most of the time recover information from one format. See this article:
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,77623,00.html

Extremely technical research papers:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/usenix01.pdf

It has to do with magnetic properties of the hard drive.

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