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geeza

geeza

geeza

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Jesus, havent looked at hard drive and prices for a while. Didnt even know 1tb drives were available yet, and they're only about £130!!!
 
You either aren't looking on OcUK or have got a bit confused, the cheapest 1tb drive I can see is the Hitachi Deskstar at £223.24 although you are right that drives are remarkably cheap now. I'd still buy 2x500gb drives over a single 1tb drive though, it can save you up to £100 and you also have split the risk of all your data going if a drive fails. :)
 
thanks

a couple more questions without making new threads

What the hell is eSATA?
LaCie d2 500GB eSATA-II 3Gbits External Hard Drive LaCie d2 500GB eSATA-II

Are USB 2 drives fast? Only my pen drive is usb 2 and it would take months to backup 500gb at the speed it does it. This seems quite good for £66
Western Digital Elements 500GB USB2.0 External Hard Drive

Can you use USB 2 or this eSATA for operating systems?
 
eSATA stands for External SATA, a different type of cable connection to the internal SATA connections. If memory serves it is faster than USB2 (at least for sustained transfers) but not all motherboards/SATA controller cards have the appropriate connection.

USB2 probably isn't great if you need to consistently move around large files as the sustained transfer rates aren't quite so hot (again this is from memory) but it ought to be significantly faster than your USB pen drive as a hard drive is designed for moving large files around, pen drives (because of limitations in the technology) aren't so much.

If your motherboard supports booting from external drives then I see no obvious reason why you couldn't install an OS onto them and boot from it, not sure why you would want to but it should be entirely possible. :)
 
With regards prices, have there been any announcements or inside knowledge leaked on price drops for the 500GB over the next few weeks seeing as more 750 and 1TB drives are coming out?
 
enigmo said:
With regards prices, have there been any announcements or inside knowledge leaked on price drops for the 500GB over the next few weeks seeing as more 750 and 1TB drives are coming out?
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Not that I have seen, but seriously how low can they go ... cheap as chips right now already.
 
True, as cheap as they've ever been, but if you're building a new array and so in the market for 4+ drives at the same time, a tenner off each one suddenly seems quite nice ;)
 
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