External Hardrives

Never buy ready built external hard drives!!

Why??

Because they all come with crippled warranty’s :mad:
Due to the nature of external Hds (ie being moved about loads) they have a higher failure/returns rate so manufactures reduce the warranty on them :(

Much better and cheaper to build them yourself, simply get a cheap 2.5" external case of ebay (£10) and then buy a Seagate 2.5" lappy drive which will come with 5 years warranty instead of 2!!

For the £80 the Seagate Momentus 40GB 2Mb cache USB 2.0 costs you could have bought 60Gb Seagate Momentus 5400.2 Hard Disk Drive 8MB Cache UATA 2.5" 5400RPM & a case and saved yourself over £20 (20Gb bigger, 4 x cache and 5 years warranty instead of 2 and £23 :eek: cheaper) Bit of a no brainer really :p
 
in principle i agree with what has been said as far as 2.5" drives are concerned.
3.5" cases tend to be ugly.

i would add that going for a firewire connection is a safer move (faster and more likely to work on dfferent pcs).
 
whatever said:
in principle i agree with what has been said as far as 2.5" drives are concerned.
3.5" cases tend to be ugly.

i would add that going for a firewire connection is a safer move (faster and more likely to work on dfferent pcs).
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Disagree!!

The Black Icey-Box (With bluuueee LED's :p ) is far more sexy than the vast majority of case's that ready made externals come with!!
 
Yup I got one of those, great for sticking in some spare large space drives in and when a good deal on 500Gig+ drive comes up its easy to upgrade :D

Best investment i made in a long time (i have a 2.5 vaio case one too but 60gig doesnt go far these days.)
 
If you are after A external hard drive and the budget is under £80

I recomend the following two. Without the need to build your own.

Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 200GB U15E200 USB 2.0 Hard Drive £69

Simple and basic value for money storage.

If your looking for something a little more special. then perhaps

Western Digital WDG1U2500 MyBook Essential 250GB USB2.0 External Hard Drive (HD-083-WD) £78

Both prices have vat included. as you can see a lot of storage for not a lot of money and seeing as your going to be leechin from me doug you know it makes sense to get the bigger drive :p
 
Just a quick question.

Are any of the external caddy's capable of being Bus Powered, i.e. don't require an external adapter & draw power from USB/Firewire??

Cheers :cool:
 
Hijack time

Sorry for the posting within your post, but, i have a usb external caddy with an ide 40 gig seagate inside.How do i get my computer to boot from usb hard drive instead of sata hd.Ive gone into the bios, enable things, disabled my current drive.I just get a blue screen when trying to boot.I have an asus a8n32 sli deluxe.My bios fully see's the usb as bootable, pc fails to boot though.I want to put another windows on it, and boot from that from time to time. Any idea people. Cheers.
 
Paul_Robson said:
Sorry for the posting within your post, but, i have a usb external caddy with an ide 40 gig seagate inside.How do i get my computer to boot from usb hard drive instead of sata hd.Ive gone into the bios, enable things, disabled my current drive.I just get a blue screen when trying to boot.I have an asus a8n32 sli deluxe.My bios fully see's the usb as bootable, pc fails to boot though.I want to put another windows on it, and boot from that from time to time. Any idea people. Cheers.
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http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
 
monkeybutt said:
The one i have is USB powered, has Firewire and external power too! Superb!
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Cheers m.butt :D

What 2.5-inch HD would you recommend? Currently looking at:
  • Western Digital Scorpio 60GB WD600VE 2.5" 8MB Cache HDD - OEM (HD-042-WD)


Seagate Momentus, do they come like that^? :o & would it be an issue/problem? :o :rolleyes:
 
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