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| What is the minimum capacity that you would need for a SSD? | more then 256GB
|  27% | 128GB
|  24% | 256GB
|  20% | 64GB
|  18% | 32GB
|  9% | 16GB
|  2% | | This Poll is currently running |
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| What changes would you like to see to the website? | Larger Range of SSD
| | 36% | Live Chat
| | 13% | Other
| | 13% | Forum
| | 9% | Bulk Buy Prices
| | 9% | Larger Range of Ext HDD
| | 8% | Larger Range of Int HDD
| | 8% | Regular 24hour Specials
|  4% | | This Poll ended on 20/01/10 |
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| What do you back up your data to? | Ext HDD
| | 42% | Onsite NAS/Server
|  17% | DVD/CD
| | 10% | Ultrium (LTO)
| | 10% | Offsite NAS/Server
| | 5% | Blu-ray
| | 5% | DLT
| | 3% | AIT
|  3% | DDS/DAT
| | 2% | Magneto Optical
|  1% | VXA
|  1% | Travan
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 17/11/09 |
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| Which brand of hard drive do you trust most? | Western Digital
| | 34% | Seagate
| | 24% | Hitachi-HGST
| | 22% | Samsung
| | 16% | Fujitsu
| | 3% | Toshiba
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 08/10/09 |
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| Would you consider a SSD for your next HDD? | No, too expensive
| | 28% | Yes, as they are getting cheaper
| | 27% | Yes, want the speed
| | 16% | No, too small
| | 14% | maybe
| | 9% | Yes, as they use less power
| | 5% | No, not compatible
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 07/09/09 |
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| What email client are you using? | MS Outlook/Express
| | 23% | Mozilla Thunderbird
| | 18% | Mail (OSX)
| | 18% | Gmail
| | 18% | Other
| | 7% | MS Exchange
| | 6% | MS Live Mail
| | 3% | KMail
| | 2% | Eudora
| | 2% | MS Entourage
| | 1% | Netscape Messenger
| | 1% | Novell Evolution
| | 1% | Pegasus Mail
| | 1% | The Bat!
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 14/08/09 |
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| How old is the hard drive in your current computer? | Two years old
| | 22% | 6 months old
| | 19% | A year old
| | 19% | Three years old
| | 12% | Old than 5 years
| | 10% | Four years old
| | 8% | Less than a month old
| | 5% | Five years old
| | 4% | | This Poll ended on 06/07/09 |
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| What type of storage will your next laptop have? | SATA 7200rpm
| | 31% | SSD (SLC)
| | 21% | SSD (MLC)
| | 18% | Don't care, just want the biggest.
| | 14% | SATA 5400rpm
| | 9% | What ever it comes with.
| | 7% | | This Poll ended on 12/06/09 |
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| When was the last time you used a floppy disk? | Over three years
| | 32% | Over a year
| | 17% | Over two years
| | 12% | Several months ago
| | 12% | This month
| | 10% | This week
| | 9% | Never
| | 5% | Today
| | 3% | | This Poll ended on 27/04/09 |
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| How often do you visit span.com ? | First time here
| | 44% | When looking for a specific product
| | 38% | Once a month
| | 10% | Once a week
| | 6% | When there is something interesting on RSS
| | 2% | When I get an alert email
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 23/03/09 |
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| Where do you backup your pictures/videos? | External HDD
| | 52% | Don't backup, but they are on a RAIDed drive
| | 15% | On Local Server
| | 12% | On External Server
| | 9% | Don't backup
| | 8% | Flash Drive
| | 3% | | This Poll ended on 06/02/09 |
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| Which Internet browser do you prefer? | Firefox 3
| | 49% | Firefox 3.1 (Minefield)
| | 13% | Safari
| | 12% | Opera
| | 6% | Internet Explorer 8
| | 5% | Internet Explorer 7
| | 4% | Chrome
| | 3% | Internet Explorer 6
| | 2% | Camino
| | 2% | SeaMonkey
| | 1% | Konqueror
| | 1% | Netscape
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 05/01/09 |
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| Who Will be the next Dr. Who? | Alan Davies
| | 20% | Other
| | 14% | James Nesbitt
| | 12% | Stephen Fry
| | 11% | Russell Brand
| | 11% | Bill Bailey
| | 9% | Catherine Tate
| | 8% | James McAvoy
| | 6% | Jason Statham
| | 3% | David Walliams
| | 2% | Paterson Joseph
| | 2% | Ralf Little
| | 2% | Robert Carlyle
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 21/11/08 |
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| What's your company's primary network topology? | gigabit Ethernet
| | 47% | 10/100 Ethernet
| | 47% | Fibre
| | 7% | Token Ring
| | 0% | Wireless
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 30/10/08 |
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| Which brand of ext. BYOD HDD box would you prefer to use? | Icy-box
| | 26% | Macpower
| | 20% | Qnap
| | 13% | Thecus
| | 9% | Netstor
| | 9% | Synology
| | 6% | Axus
| | 5% | Infortrend
| | 5% | Sonnet
| | 5% | Promise
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 24/10/08 |
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| How do you find items on this site? | Using a 3rd party site search (google,etc)
| | 46% | Using the Categories on the left
| | 27% | Using the search box
| | 23% | Using the EasyFind sections
| | 4% | Using the Manufacturers drop down
| | 0% | Using the New Products section
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 14/08/08 |
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| Why did you last reformat your hard drive? | To upgrade or switch to a new OS
| | 37% | To increase performance
| | 17% | Had system problems I couldn't resolve
| | 13% | The file sytem become corrupted
| | 9% | I have never found it necessary
| | 8% | Viruses and spyware made a mess
| | 7% | The drive died
| | 5% | To sell or get rid of hard drive
| | 3% | I accidentally did it
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 14/07/08 |
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| What takes up the most space on your hard drive? | Video
| | 46% | Music
| | 16% | Photos
| | 13% | Software
| | 12% | Games
| | 6% | Documents
| | 6% | Other
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 03/06/08 |
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| What's the best way to transfer large files between computers? | Local-area network
| | 49% | Portable hard drive - eSATA
| | 23% | Cross-over cable
| | 14% | FTP server
| | 6% | Portable hard drive - USB
| | 6% | Portable hard drive - FW
| | 3% | CD-R/CD-RW
| | 0% | DVD-R/DVD-RW
| | 0% | Floppy or Zip drive
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 13/05/08 |
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| Do you use encryption? | I don't feel a need to run encryption.
| | 42% | I encrypt email and certain files on my hard drive.
| | 33% | Full hard drive encryption
| | 16% | Encryption?!? What's that?
| | 4% | I encrypt my email
| | 4% | | This Poll ended on 01/05/08 |
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| How does your company store critical data? | Backed up on dedicated server onsite
| | 28% | Backed up on tape/cd/dvd, onsite
| | 25% | Backed up on dedicated server offsite
| | 19% | Backed up on tape/cd/dvd, offsite
| | 13% | Not Backed Up
| | 9% | Backed up with specialist backup/recovery solution
| | 6% | | This Poll ended on 07/04/08 |
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| Have you ever paid for professional hard drive recovery? | Nope, I back up my stuff, thank you very much.
| | 51% | Nope. I'm still living on the edge--no backup, and no crashes.
| | 16% | No, but ever since that crash I've got backup religion.
| | 14% | Yes, and what a ripoff!
| | 13% | Yes, and it was worth every penny.
| | 5% | I would have, but my drive was too far gone.
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 11/03/08 |
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| Which payment method would you use? | PayPal
| | 41% | Credit Card
| | 36% | Debit Card
| | 8% | Bank Transfer
| | 6% | Google Checkout
| | 5% | Payment on Collection
| | 4% | Cheque
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 22/02/08 |
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| Which backup format do you use regularly? | HDD
| | 52% | DVD/CD
| | 19% | Ultrium (LTO)
| | 10% | Blu-ray
| | 7% | DLT
| | 6% | DDS/DAT
| | 2% | Travan
| | 2% | Magneto Optical
| | 1% | AIT
| | 1% | VXA
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 02/02/08 |
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| What is the main Operating System you use? | Mac OS X
| | 30% | Windows XP
| | 29% | Linux/Unix
| | 21% | Windows Vista
| | 12% | Windows Server 2003
| | 3% | Windows 2000 or older
| | 2% | Solaris
| | 2% | Mac OS9
| | 0% | Windows Server or SBS 2008
| | 0% | Netware
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 11/01/08 |
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| Which brand of hard drive do you trust most? | Seagate
| | 42% | Western Digital
| | 23% | Hitachi-HGST
| | 11% | Samsung
| | 9% | Maxtor
| | 8% | Fujitsu
| | 5% | Toshiba
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 20/11/07 |
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| Which green-friendly technologies do you use? | Turn off PCs outside working hours
| | 38% | Energy-efficient processors
| | 20% | None of the above
| | 16% | Server virtualisation
| | 12% | Reducing paper use from printing
| | 12% | Recycle PCs or donate to charity
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 18/10/07 |
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| How often do you backup? | Daily
| | 31% | Weekly
| | 14% | backup???
| | 14% | Happy using RAID
| | 13% | Monthly
| | 12% | Never
| | 11% | Yearly
| | 5% | | This Poll ended on 17/09/07 |
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| What is the biggest free PCI-Express slot you have? | PCI-E x16
| | 39% | None
| | 25% | PCI-E x1
| | 13% | PCI-E x8
| | 8% | What is PCI-E?
| | 7% | PCI-E x4
| | 5% | Not sure...
| | 4% | | This Poll ended on 25/05/07 |
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| What is your display resolution set to? | 1280 x 1024
| | 45% | 1600 x 1200
| | 34% | 1024 x 768
| | 17% | 800 x 600
| | 2% | 640 x 480
| | 1% | 1152 x 864
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 17/04/07 |
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| When was the last time you restarted your computer? | Today
| | 47% | A few days ago
| | 19% | Yesterday
| | 11% | Over a month ago
| | 11% | Over a week ago
| | 6% | Over a year ago
| | 4% | A month ago
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 27/03/07 |
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| Which type of external storage connection is best for you? | Gigabit LAN
| | 26% | eSATA
| | 21% | USB2
| | 16% | Firewire800
| | 13% | 10/100 LAN
|  10% | MuliLane SAS/SATA
| | 8% | Firewire400
| | 7% | | This Poll ended on 05/03/07 |
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| Which hard drive tech are you looking forward to the most? | Hybrid (Solid State) Drives
| | 41% | 1 TB+ Capacity Drives
| | 36% | Over 15,000 RPM Spindle Speed
| | 18% | 32 MB+ Cache Buffers
| | 6% | | This Poll ended on 01/02/07 |
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| What changes would you like to see to the website? | Clearance section
| | 20% | Downloads section
| | 18% | Bulk buy prices
| | 18% | Wider range of products
| | 11% | Easier navigation
| | 9% | Special offers
| | 9% | Improved layout
| | 5% | Other...
| | 5% | Forum
| | 4% | More graphics/colour
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 13/11/06 |
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| Would you buy an OEM OS with a new Hard Disk? | No, use linux/unix
| | 22% | No, get OS from Apple
| | 19% | Yes, XP Pro
| | 17% | Yes, Vista
| | 16% | No, have legal copy of OS
| | 12% | No, not installing OS
| | 8% | Yes, XP Home
| | 6% | | This Poll ended on 10/08/06 |
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| Primary PC DVD Burner Use? | Backing Up Data
| | 36% | Watching DVD Movies
| | 24% | Creating DVD Videos
| | 16% | Creating Audio CDs
| | 12% | Reading Data Discs
| | 12% | | This Poll ended on 04/07/06 |
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| When was your last Hard Disk Failure? | Over 5 years ago
| | 26% | 1-2 years ago
| | 18% | 7-12 months ago
| | 13% | last week
| | 12% | 2-6 months ago
| | 11% | last month
| | 11% | 3-5 years ago
| | 9% | | This Poll ended on 21/06/06 |
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| Do you use RAID? | RAID 5
| | 23% | No
| | 22% | RAID 0
| | 18% | Whats RAID?
| | 16% | RAID 1
| | 14% | RAID Other setup
| | 9% | RAID 6
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 24/05/06 |
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| Which Internet browser do you prefer? | Firefox
| | 58% | Internet Explorer 6
| | 22% | Opera
| | 9% | Other
| | 8% | Netscape
| | 1% | IE 5 or less
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 05/04/06 |
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| Which Operating System are you using? | Windows XP / XP MCE
| | 38% | Mac OS X
| | 34% | Linux
| | 11% | Windows 2k
| | 4% | Windows XP 64
| | 3% | Windows Vista
| | 3% | Windows 95/98/ME
| | 3% | Mac OS 8/9
| | 1% | Dos
| | 1% | Unix
| | 1% | Windows NT
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 27/03/06 |
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| Which is your favorite search engine? | Google
| | 78% | Yahoo
| | 9% | MSN
| | 4% | AOL
| | 3% | Other
| | 3% | Ask Jeeves
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 23/02/06 |
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| What are you most looking forward to in the future? | Bigger Flash Drives
| | 25% | Blu-Ray/HD DVD
| | 24% | Faster HDD
| | 16% | Hybrid disks
| | 13% | Wireless USB
| | 10% | Bigger HHD
| | 7% | FCAL 10gb
| | 3% | | This Poll ended on 02/02/06 |
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| What is on your Xmas list? | DVD Drive
| | 20% | External HDD
| | 20% | Complete System
| | 15% | SATA Hard Drive
| | 11% | Raid Card
| | 7% | Motherboard
| | 7% | RAM
| | 5% | Media Player (DivX)
| | 5% | Scanner or Printer
| | 4% | Flash Storage
| | 4% | Monitor
| | 4% | PATA Hard Drive
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 20/01/06 |
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| What optical media do you use the most? | DVD-R
| | 30% | CD-R
| | 17% | DVD+R
| | 15% | DVD+RW
| | 12% | DVD-RAM
| | 11% | CD-RW
| | 6% | DVD-RW
| | 5% | DVD+R DL
| | 2% | DVD-R DL
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 16/12/05 |
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| Which backup format do you use regularly? | DLT
| | 27% | Ultrium (LTO)
| | 25% | DDS
| | 15% | Travan
| | 9% | AIT
| | 8% | Magneto Optical
| | 8% | VXA
| | 5% | SLR
| | 3% | Mammoth
| | 0% | | This Poll ended on 15/11/05 |
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| Whose hard drives have you found to be the most reliable? | Seagate
| | 30% | Maxtor
| | 25% | W.Digital
| | 15% | Hitachi-GST
| | 11% | IBM
| | 9% | Toshiba
| | 4% | other
| | 3% | Fujitsu
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 17/08/05 |
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| How do you connect to the internet? | T1
| | 21% | 512kbps DSL
| | 19% | 1Mbps DSL
| | 18% | 2Mbps DSL
| | 18% | 8Mbps DSL
| | 7% | 4Mbps DSL
| | 7% | Unknown
| | 4% | Leased line (T3)
| | 3% | ISDN
| | 1% | 56k dial-up
| | 1% | | This Poll ended on 11/07/05 |
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| What is your favourite storage interface ? | SATA
| | 28% | SCSI
| | 15% | ATA/IDE
| | 13% | Firewire 800
| | 13% | USB 2
| | 11% | Firewire
| | 10% | FCAL
| | 6% | iSCSI
| | 3% | SAS
| | 2% | | This Poll ended on 30/06/05 |
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