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DISK TYPES
Although we seemed to have reached a low point in computer prices with many systems appearing to show increases the price of very large hard disk drives is still falling. This is good news for many of you who will need more storage space for all of your digital photographs taken over the holidays but you do need to be careful about the type of connector. For over 20 years disk drives, along with CD and DVD devices, used a type of connection called ATA – you may have seem the ‘ribbon’ cable connection used to plug into the computer motherboard. These have now been superseded by the SATA connector which arrived about 4 or 5 years ago. It’s a much thinner cable and manufacturers claim the data transfer rates are higher. Unfortunately the two are not interchangeable and the original ATA devices are becoming harder to source which is keeping the price of relatively small disks high when compared to much larger SATA disks.
Of course all this is only a problem if you want to install or replace a disc inside your computer but this is still the best place for important data to reside.

ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS ON YOUR WEBSITE!
We recently introduced a new way to pay for your holiday at Galloway Cottage using a credit card thanks to a link with PayPal – the Internet’s favourite way to transfer money!
Although there are many ways to take payments on your website they have always been complicated to initially setup and the transaction fees have been prohibitive unless you are sure customers will be pounding on your door. Most website owners prefer to use their site to provide information about products or services but conduct the payments face to face or have a cheque dropped in the post. Together with the setup charges these transaction fees stop most retailers even trying to sell directly from their website.
To help break this high cost cycle DISC are offering to bring the PayPal solution to your website! The setup fee is just £275.00 and PayPal costs are just 2% of the sale plus 20p per transaction. So if you sell something for £30 on your website the fee is just 80p – that’s usually cheaper than paying a cheque into your business account. We think this is the cheapest way of accepting credit cards for all sorts of sales and have recently introduced it for Galloway Cottage where it’s proving useful for foreign visitors!

For more information about computer repairs and expansion, broadband Internet connections, websites and e-commerce or our full range of computer products and other IT services please click the products and services button at the top of this page or telephone DISC on 0845 644 6547 for an informal discussion about your computer problems.

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