What's a good external HDD to buy these days? (2.5" size)
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From: Ant on 24 Oct 2009 15:36 On 10/23/2009 11:48 AM PT, Rod Speed typed: >> What's the length limit? > > There isnt any nice tidy limit with that. So across the room or more is bad? >> It's long enough from the bottom of the PC case to the top of my desk. I dislike putting it on the floor. > > Thats fine. Cool. :) >>> IMO, the short warranty for these external drives comes largely from the assumption that they are likely to receive >>> rougher treatment than a drive mounted in a heavier piece of equipment. For the higher-powered 3.5" drives, lack of >>> fans is also an issue. > >> Ah. I hope this 2.5" Seagate one has a fan. > > None of the 2.5" drives do, they dont need one. Oh. -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Rod Speed on 24 Oct 2009 17:29 Ant wrote > Rod Speed wrote >>> What's the length limit? >> There isnt any nice tidy limit with that. Essentially because its the guage of wire in the extension cable that matters with higher current devices powered from the USB. > So across the room or more is bad? Thats bad for other reasons. >>> It's long enough from the bottom of the PC case to the top of my desk. I dislike putting it on the floor. >> Thats fine. > Cool. :) >>>> IMO, the short warranty for these external drives comes largely >>>> from the assumption that they are likely to receive rougher >>>> treatment than a drive mounted in a heavier piece of equipment. For the higher-powered 3.5" drives, lack of fans is >>>> also an issue. >>> Ah. I hope this 2.5" Seagate one has a fan. >> None of the 2.5" drives do, they dont need one. > Oh.
From: Rod Speed on 5 Nov 2009 04:35 John Turco wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> Ant wrote >>> Does Samsung sell 2.5" external HDDs. >> Yep, mate of mine has just been stupid enough to put one thru the >> washing machine quite literally. Worked fine when it had dried out. >>> I remmeber you or someone mentioning them doing good in the past. >> Yeah, me, Arno and John all like them. > Okay, Rod...if I'm the "John" that you referred to, above, You are indeed. > you were most definitely correct. My present PC has been humming along > with a pair of Samsung 160GB PATA puppies (SP1614N), since May of 2004. > Plus, I bought two Samsung 500GB SATA specimens (HD501LJ), > for my new computer build -- although, I'd dropped one of them, > from a height of about two feet. While examining it, it simply > slipped out of my hands and first struck the steel railing of > my bed, and then landed on a carpeted wood floor. I've reported you to the RSPCFREDWWD > This happened in September, 2008, and the online vendor's 1-year > warranty has already expired. (All of my Samsung hard drives are > 3.5" OEM models.) I just never got around to trying to exchange > it; besides, would I have even been >able< to do so, successfully, > if the HD501LJ has built-in "sensors" of a sort, which recorded > the traumatic event? They dont. > My concern has helped to delay the assembly of my "dream machine." > I wanted a second HDD for utility purposes, (i.e., video capture > and DVD "burning") and thus, the other HD501LJ will become > my main disk (OS/programs/data), by default (no pun intended). > Now, regarding the subject of this thread (external hard drives). A > couple of weeks ago, inside a local "warehouse club" store, I saw a > Western Digital 1TB "My Book Home" (WDH1CS10000N), for approximately > $110 USD. That thing had gaudy specifications (USB 2.0, FireWire and > eSATA), at such an affordable price point. I was almost ready to buy > it, and yet, I was able to resist the temptation. > Which proved to be a rather wise decision, as my subsequent Googling > eventually led me to Newegg <http://www.newegg.com>. The customer > reviews of the WDH1CS10000N were fairly unflattering, there, with > recurring compliants involving overheating, flakiness and general > unreliability. (It received 3 out of 5 "eggs," overall.) > Further searching (via both Google and eBay) uncovered the Samsung > "Story Station" (HX-DU010EB). This 1TB baby is strictly USB 2.0, but, > Newegg's reviewers gave it a very solid rating (4 eggs). Unlike its > WD counterpart, the Samsung product seems to be much less glitzy and > far more dependable. > Additionally, it's currently $20 cheaper than the WDH1CS10000N, at > Newegg ($99.99 vs $119.99). > Therefore, I'll probably grab the HX-DU010EB, somewhere, after the > upcoming Christmas/New Year's holidays. I've been buying 1TB Samsung bare drives and using them in a docking station for PVR overflow. Up to 5 now. Next will be a 1.5TB drive, better $/GB now. Havent had a single failure and havent been cruel enough to drop one yet either.
From: Rod Speed on 5 Nov 2009 04:38 John Turco wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> David Brown wrote: > <edited for brevity> Why do you only do that to mine ? >>> while Win95 OSR2 and Win98SE were solid >>> enough to use if you were reasonably careful. >> They were solid enough to use even if you werent. >> So was ME if you had even half a clue too. > Albeit, I must admit that Windows Millennium did cause > a few minor headaches, in my roughly 33 months of using > it (before I replaced it with XP, in February of 2007). > One such annoyance (which is well documented, on both Usenet and the > WWW) was its refusal to shut down, gracefully...often, it would just "hang" > there, thus forcing me to employ my computer's power or reset buttons. You sure that wasnt SE ?
From: Rod Speed on 23 Nov 2009 03:40
John Turco wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> John Turco wrote > <heavily edited for brevity> Why do you only have this in replys to my posts ? >>> Now, regarding the subject of this thread (external hard drives). A >>> couple of weeks ago, inside a local "warehouse club" store, I saw a >>> Western Digital 1TB "My Book Home" (WDH1CS10000N), for approximately >>> $110 USD. That thing had gaudy specifications (USB 2.0, FireWire and >>> eSATA), at such an affordable price point. I was almost ready to buy >>> it, and yet, I was able to resist the temptation. >>> Which proved to be a rather wise decision, as my subsequent Googling >>> eventually led me to Newegg <http://www.newegg.com>. The customer >>> reviews of the WDH1CS10000N were fairly unflattering, there, with >>> recurring compliants involving overheating, flakiness and general >>> unreliability. (It received 3 out of 5 "eggs," overall.) >>> Further searching (via both Google and eBay) uncovered the Samsung >>> "Story Station" (HX-DU010EB). This 1TB baby is strictly USB 2.0, >>> but, Newegg's reviewers gave it a very solid rating (4 eggs). >>> Unlike its WD counterpart, the Samsung product seems to be much >>> less glitzy and far more dependable. >>> Additionally, it's currently $20 cheaper than the WDH1CS10000N, at >>> Newegg ($99.99 vs $119.99). >>> Therefore, I'll probably grab the HX-DU010EB, somewhere, after the >>> upcoming Christmas/New Year's holidays. >> I've been buying 1TB Samsung bare drives and using them in a docking >> station for PVR overflow. Up to 5 now. Next will be a 1.5TB drive, >> better $/GB now. >> Havent had a single failure and havent been cruel enough to drop one yet either. > Thinking about it further, Dangerous business... > it seems Samsung took a wise approach, by putting one of its cooler-running > "EcoGreen" 5,400 drives, into the HX-DU010EB's USB-only enclosure; > because, as you know, USB is the >real< bottleneck, anyway. Yeah, been buying those myself too, just because they are the cheapest. > On the other hand, Western Digital needed to use a 7,2000 > HDD, in the WDH1CS10000N case -- as the latter also features > FireWire and eSATA, which are both faster connections. My docking station supports eSATA too. I dont care about the speed, I use them for PVR overflow. > The hotter 7,2000 device accounts for the WDH1CS10000N's > comparatively higher failure rate, most likely. Yep, very likely. |