External Hardrives

pcknight · 15 Jun 2006 at 14:58

I bought the 2.5 laptop hard drive separate and put it into the caddy. I had the 40g Hard Drive cheap! Better to buy a separate enclosure as you can swap hard drives when the need arises.

pcknight · 15 Jun 2006 at 14:59

Seagate have a great warranty service, 5 years too!!

hp7909 · 15 Jun 2006 at 15:12

monkeybutt said:
I bought the 2.5 laptop hard drive separate and put it into the caddy. I had the 40g Hard Drive cheap! Better to buy a separate enclosure as you can swap hard drives when the need arises.

That caddy, shame about max being 80GB because I'd seen the potential of using a 100GB+ 2.5-inch drive

pcknight · 15 Jun 2006 at 15:20

Well, i have a 40g in it and can't see the need for an 80g in one as i only need it for backups! Does the Job very well indeed.

hp7909 · 15 Jun 2006 at 15:59

monkeybutt said:
Well, i have a 40g in it and can't see the need for an 80g in one as i only need it for backups! Does the Job very well indeed.

Looking at backing up several machines + having movies in there (unbacked-up) & all for travelling with me, etc. That said 100GB+ might be overkill, considering the excellent job Acronis True Image does

pcknight · 15 Jun 2006 at 20:09

If you are going to back up several machines and films 100g might not be enough!!!

hp7909 · 15 Jun 2006 at 20:52

monkeybutt said:
If you are going to back up several machines and films 100g might not be enough!!!

Nah nothing bigger than 15GB & only about 4 machines. Through Acronis True Image roughly 14GB = 6GB archive

jimblowscash · 19 Aug 2006 at 00:14

for cheep external storage go lacie all day long, fast relyable and easy to use

Hades · 19 Aug 2006 at 00:57

hp7909 said:
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

It's not just the caddy. The drive itself has quite a bearing on whether it can be USB powered or not. Some drives draw more power than others.

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

Hmmm not sure I agree. Firewire is certainly faster but USB is on every modern PC I've seen. So I'd say USB is more likely to work on different PC's unless you're using a Mac?

hp7909 said:
Nah nothing bigger than 15GB & only about 4 machines. Through Acronis True Image roughly 14GB = 6GB archive

Considered a NAS?

Humate · 19 Aug 2006 at 13:15

Western Digital WDG1C5000 MyBook Premium 500GB Firewire 400 / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (HD-088-WD)

i just bought one of these... not impressed at all... the case is flimsy plastic... i reckon i will break it within a month. I thought it was gonna be nice brushed aluminium. I should stop just hitting buy without thinking.

jimblowscash · 21 Aug 2006 at 10:50

Humate said:
Western Digital WDG1C5000 MyBook Premium 500GB Firewire 400 / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (HD-088-WD)

i just bought one of these... not impressed at all... the case is flimsy plastic... i reckon i will break it within a month. I thought it was gonna be nice brushed aluminium. I should stop just hitting buy without thinking.

they do look good, but as you say they arnt all that in the flesh, i bought one of the lacie d2 models, the chunky alli ones, and have to say that it is a beast, quite heavy, but reasuringly so.