16-10-2004, 11:16
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External Hard Drive
I`m thinking of getting an external HDD to act as a database for a music server. I don`t need anything massive as my present one has 210 albums on it and has only used up 19Gig of space, so a 60gig would be fine.
My question is, has anybody got one? and how reliable are they? It only needs to be usb, so i can take it with me when i go on hol`s etc.
Any thoughts......................
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16-10-2004, 20:03
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Re: External Hard Drive
Got a 120GB Western Digital one. Connected via USB2.
Absolutly perfect. Really fast and it stores my 56GB of albums fine :p
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16-10-2004, 20:05
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Re: External Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by LooeyB
Got a 120GB Western Digital one. Connected via USB2.
Absolutly perfect. Really fast and it stores my 56GB of albums fine :p
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following on from the above post , does your pc have either usb2 or firewire , you will need either to get sorted 
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16-10-2004, 20:09
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Re: External Hard Drive
He could do it via USB1 except it will be slower
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16-10-2004, 20:21
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Re: External Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by Paulie
I`m thinking of getting an external HDD to act as a database for a music server. I don`t need anything massive as my present one has 210 albums on it and has only used up 19Gig of space, so a 60gig would be fine.
My question is, has anybody got one? and how reliable are they? It only needs to be usb, so i can take it with me when i go on hol`s etc.
Any thoughts......................
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I'd get a laptop hdd (about 40GB - 60GB) and use a USB caddy, these are excelent as they are 100% host powered so there is no hefty PSU to carry around with you so its extra portable.
I use 2 of these myself, 1x6GB USB1 & 1x40GB USB2. I also have a 120GB maxtor USB2 drive (full size drive) and thats fine too
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16-10-2004, 20:50
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Re: External Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by LooeyB
He could do it via USB1 except it will be slower |
good point , albeit very much slower 
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16-10-2004, 21:46
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Re: External Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
good point , albeit very much slower |
Still quite usable though. You'd get about a 1 meg/sec realistically sustained transfer rate, so 'streaming' music and video is fine.
I was gonna say though, I got a nice gizmo. It is a USB to IDE converter, so I can hotswap and use internal IDE hard drives with it.
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17-10-2004, 10:54
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Re: External Hard Drive
Hey guys
Thanks very much for the advice 
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17-10-2004, 11:43
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Re: External Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by punky
I was gonna say though, I got a nice gizmo. It is a USB to IDE converter, so I can hotswap and use internal IDE hard drives with it.
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I saw a few of these on Ebay, are they any good?
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18-10-2004, 11:16
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Re: External Hard Drive
Sorry, I missed your post.
Mine behaves very well. Does exactly what it says on the tin. I can hotswap IDE drives and use them externally. Works on any computer, Win98 and up with a USB port. Supports USB 2.
Two things though: I don't think you can use it as a boot device and the disk isn't subject to power saving measures so I think the only way to stop the disk spinning is to disconnect it. Not the end of thew world, most people leave their computers on running something anyway.
Edit: I have never tried it with a CD drive, but I guess it will work.
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18-10-2004, 11:19
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Re: External Hard Drive
i got me a maxtor 120gb onetouch usb2 jobber. got about 30gb of music sitting its belly at the moment, along with other things
i also have a dvd writer linked up to an external case which just has a usb to ide thingy in it. this cost me about £20 from blankdiscshop i think, that can hold hard drives too.
go for it, makes life trÃÃâ€*’©s easy
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