External Hard Drives Right - i've been given a Price bracked of up to 110 quid for a external, but dont really know which brands are the best to go for in terms of them not fucking up and destroying all data contained within them (e.g Hutchy's HD failing catastrophically, destroying a pretty comprehensive 250GB history of trance in an instant ) in regards to this - which one's are the ones to avoid and which one's are the safest. any help would be took on board with delight. Much love.
i've had a look for a few: http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=3950&ref=googlebase&id=3950 http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=226762&source=1 http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=226879 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... Neil Poulton 1TB USB2.0 External Hard Drive (301304EK)
maxtor were bought by seagate, and they are rather dubious so i would stay clear. personally i would buy a separate caddy and a samsung f1 drive - fastest out there at the minute
i've got a 500GB ext seagate. out of the 10 we bought, 2 are fucked - but mines fine at the moent... touch wood. the WD's are good not had any problems with them. also had an Iomega, had a segate drive inside and a crappy chassis. thats died after a few months but it was bashed around in my bag to be honest, i'd say they're all very much alike, segate used to be the daddy but now though....
THERES THIS ON EBAY. Brand new and sealed 1TB Seagate Xtreme External hard drive. 7200rpm 3.5" drive. Firewire 400, USB 2 and eSATA interfaces. £76 +P&P . item no 110304476528 NOT BAD THAT e BUYER HAS THEM FOR £130 ish
you got any links to these boyo? is a caddy just something you stick an internal HD into? just because this is for constant backing up of data on my laptop, not on my desktop (which is also on the red space wise - 1 TB encounting )
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ng SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...-390StUS-B 3.5" eSATA + USB 2.0 Combo - Black dead easy, put the hard drive in to the caddy and connect the two cables (power and data) and then its done - one very fast external drive
have a look at : http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx there's a 1TB Buffalo for £76... scroll down - there's a few to choose from. otherwise, ebuyer, dabs are all pretty reasonable.
cheers boy's, some sound advice off all there - that internal and HD enclosure sounds like a good idea. do they do enclosures with room for a few internal's - it's got me thinking since i have a few older HD's going at the minute running through 2 desktops which i will eventually 'decommission' soon, and having a place where i could openly access data from all of the sources might come in handy. however - would just keeping an old desktop tower handy be the solution to this? like a miniture file server? i would prefer something a bit smaller like.
and i've just realised if i do that i'd have 2.5TB capacity - already half full i really do need to force myself to delete some stuff
"i fucking know i've got a hard drive round here somewhere"; But in all seriousness - its just a backlog of music programs and films that i dont want to delete - and just cant be arsed to backup on DVD etc. not to mention thats data from all members of my family, who would boot off if i went on a recycle mission
Ive got one for sale if u want it. Got about 250gb of trance from the last 3-4 years on it. slight problem tho, may be a bit hard to access it :evil: Maxtor/ Seagate go and fuck yourselfs
