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drunkenfool |
posted on 20th Nov 07 at 17:37 |
Ive just stumbled accross this caddy which also has built in ethernet support. May well be quite handy for someone! | |
Robbo |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 19:52 |
Yup, sounds about right | |
AndyKent |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 18:44 |
quote: As did I, only 80GB but was about £65/70! Back then anyone with 1TB of storage was amazing, nowadays anyone can have it :! | |
Joe |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 18:38 |
I just got this through the post today | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:38 |
quote: Too true, i just got a new laptop, i thought "160GB, yea.. that'll keep me going for quite a while, screw an external" one week later.. i have about 10GB left :( | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:37 |
yea, when i was looking at like 200gb ones a little while ago they where all over £150 i swear.. | |
andy1868 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:36 |
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. | |
Robbo |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:30 |
I bought an 80GB Maxtor about 5 years ago, cost shedloads :lol: | |
andy1868 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:29 |
:lol: yeah batman, its not supposed to be, but it is physically possible | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:28 |
haha, so when you say it's interchangable.. it's not designed to be it jsut can be done? | |
andy1868 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:16 |
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. | |
deano87 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:13 |
quote: Good to know - and I don't think I'll need 500GB so can save some money - if they are interchangeable, then I can easily upgrade if I need to in the future. | |
andy1868 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:12 |
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. | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:10 |
quote: Bloody hell, external hard-drives have come down soo much in price.. That's actually cheap as chips.. I would advise you to get that tbh :thumbs: | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 12:08 |
quote: Yea.. essentially, if you buy an external drive what you are buying is an internal drive, and a caddy togethor, the only difference is the caddy cant be opened to change the drive, and is more expensive this way. | |
deano87 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:45 |
quote: That's freaky - it's the one my mate has :! | |
_Allan_ |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:40 |
Quite a few on here including me have one of these: | |
deano87 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:30 |
hmmmm, getting a caddie may be an option. I want it external so I can take it places with me. | |
dave17 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:24 |
why not just install a normall HDd to your pic? can get 500gb for about £55/65 | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:24 |
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 | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:24 |
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: | |
deano87 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:20 |
I don't mind on separate power cables - at least it won't steal power from my PC :lol: | |
Batmanman |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:15 |
so, are you after advice on what hard-drive to get? | |
deano87 |
posted on 19th Nov 07 at 11:07 |
:wave: |