Ive just stumbled accross this caddy which also has built in ethernet support. May well be quite handy for someone!

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=26824&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DGM+3.5"+HDD+Lan+Enclosure+USB+%2B+Ethernet+&utm_campaign=newsletter201107

Yup, sounds about right

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Originally posted by Robbo
I bought an 80GB Maxtor about 5 years ago, cost shedloads :lol:

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I just got this through the post today

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4HMF&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=seagate&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=50410

All seems good so far, took about 20 secs to set it up. 10 mins to transer about 20GB of stuff. Just hope it does'nt fuck up and lose everything now :o

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Originally posted by andy1868
my recommendation would be to buy a bigger one now deano, instead of upgrading in the future. as i found, you'll always fill it.

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yea, when i was looking at like 200gb ones a little while ago they where all over £150 i swear..

my recommendation would be to buy a bigger one now deano, instead of upgrading in the future. as i found, you'll always fill it.

I bought an 80GB Maxtor about 5 years ago, cost shedloads :lol:

:lol: yeah batman, its not supposed to be, but it is physically possible

haha, so when you say it's interchangable.. it's not designed to be it jsut can be done?

i said they are interchangable, i didn't say it was easy :lol: it can take alittle fucking about, but when you've done it once you'll be able to do it again without much of a problem. i also had to use an adapter for the power. so it might not be completely straight forward.

also don't know about the controllers as i only changed from a 400 to 500 (the 400 drive was shagged) but the smaller models may have different controllers, i don't know for sure

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Originally posted by andy1868
i have a 500GB western digital one, works a treat. depending on how much you want to pay you can either just have USB, USB and firewire or USB, firewire and eSATA.

the drives in the MyBook range are interchangeable, so if you wanted to change it in the future you can do

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i have a 500GB western digital one, works a treat. depending on how much you want to pay you can either just have USB, USB and firewire or USB, firewire and eSATA.

the drives in the MyBook range are interchangeable, so if you wanted to change it in the future you can do

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Originally posted by _Allan_
Quite a few on here including me have one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Essential-USB2-0-External/dp/B000EXZB0M

of some size. Not a bad price. I paid the same price about 18 months ago for only a 250GB version.

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Originally posted by deano87


So a caddie is essentially a carrying/connection device, which allows you to use a standard internal HDD externally?

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Originally posted by _Allan_
Quite a few on here including me have one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Essential-USB2-0-External/dp/B000EXZB0M

of some size. Not a bad price. I paid the same price about 18 months ago for only a 250GB version.

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Quite a few on here including me have one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Essential-USB2-0-External/dp/B000EXZB0M

of some size. Not a bad price. I paid the same price about 18 months ago for only a 250GB version.

hmmmm, getting a caddie may be an option. I want it external so I can take it places with me.

So a caddie is essentially a carrying/connection device, which allows you to use a standard internal HDD externally?

why not just install a normall HDd to your pic? can get 500gb for about £55/65

ah right, nah, i dont really have any i can reccomend. A slightly cheaper way to do things is to get a decent internal Hard-drive (they are cheaper) and buy a caddy for it (about £15 on e-bay) :D

120GB is pointless, you can get a 400gb drive for not much more money :P I got a harddrive enclosure which means you can choose whatever hard drive you want to go inside it, i got two 500GB drives out here in Spain with me. Bonus is if anything goes wrong or you want to upgrade, standard drives are cheaper to replace. The caddies can run on either USB2 or eSATA, transfer speeds are pretty good (I get around 14MB/s) :thumbs:

I don't mind on separate power cables - at least it won't steal power from my PC :lol:

Price range - no idea how much they cost really.

Capacity - at least 120GB. Probably max in fact :)

Spec - 7200rpm would be nice.

Just thought some people might have one and could recommend it :)

so, are you after advice on what hard-drive to get?

Whats your price range?
What kind of size hard-drive do you need?

All external hard-drives have seperate power cables sadly :( i was after one a little while ago and couldnt find ANY bus powered ones (powered from the USB)

:wave:

Looking at getting an external HDD to put all my films on etc and other stuff that I never watch/use, but will need to. This will then free up my HDD and hopefully it won't be so laggy.

Any recommendations? I borrowed a mates quite a while ago, that had a power cable, fan etc. Are they all like this?

I want one that'll have quite quick transfer rate, so I presume one which has a seperate power cable and cooling will be better?!

Any advice would be welcome :)