External Hard Drives

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muttclugg

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When I bought my hard drive I completley overlooked the small hard drive size and it's quickly filling up. I'll be looking for an external HD with 500gb+ storage that I can simply plug in and use without any installation process (if possible).

Any suggestions?
 
i won [well my girlfriend did] a western digital mybook basic 500gb in a raffle at the supermarket where she works

she gave it to me because i explained that 500gb is no use to her and i would benefit from it more :P

its been great for about 6months with pretty decent transfer speeds over usb
 
'pretty decent' 35mb/s max is usb2 esata is the full drive speed, sometimes around 3 times faster!
 
You be lucky to get 35MB on USB 2.0, I got about 25MB/sec.

Overall USB 2.0 on a HDD is said to be 25-35MB/sec, I take 75+MB/Sec over it anyday and less CPU usage (if that even matters). :)

I had my HDD connected with USB less than 1 day, PIA slow.
 
Not if it was like our System ram its the shared Max limit of 480Mb/sec for USB 2.0.


QUOTED :


" How fast is USB 2.0?
USB 2.0 has a raw data rate at 480Mbps, and it is rated 40 times faster than its predecessor interface, USB 1.1, which tops at 12Mbps. Originally, USB 2.0 was intended to go only as fast as 240Mbps, but in October 1999, USB 2.0 Promoter Group pumped up the speed to 480Mbps.


As far as we know, effective rate reaches at 40MBps or 320Mbps for bulk transfer on a USB 2.0 hard drive with no one else is sharing the bus. Flash Drives seem to be catching up too with the some hitting 30MB/s milestone. For all we know, USB interface could become become the bottleneck for flash drives as early as 2008. "


http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm
 
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