External Hard Drives

[jaybiss]

So how much did you pay?

How big is your memory?

How much memory have you used?

Link to where you got yours from?


Its about time i get myself one and im not sure how much memory i should get. Ideas and thoughts on a post card.

It will only be used for photos (hence why it is in this section)

[Ryan]

i have a 300 gig one for about £80 a few years back, a portable 120 thats died.

maplin i got mine from.

GAYbliss, pm fag on shed as he can get some at good prices

[jaybiss]

that was the plan batman

so 500 gig would be more than enough then???

[Ryan]

yes.

I want 2x 1 TB drives though for back ups as my medial libary has got quite big now lol

[Noddy]

I've got

320Gb 2.5" SATA external drive - £70 (approx 60Gb left)
320Gb 3.5" IDE external drive £100 (50Gb left) (Both above via USB)
400Gb SATA NAS enclosure (totalling ~£80) (160Gb free)

and a new 2Tb file server on the go - old server is turned off awaiting data transfer (about 900Gb)

and to answer your question, yeah 500Gb will be enough for your needs.

[Ryan]

I've got

320Gb 2.5" SATA external drive - £70 (approx 60Gb left)
320Gb 3.5" IDE external drive £100 (50Gb left) (Both above via USB)
400Gb SATA NAS enclosure (totalling ~£80) (160Gb free)

and a new 2Tb file server on the go - old server is turned off awaiting data transfer (about 900Gb)

and to answer your question, yeah 500Gb will be enough for your needs.

fuck me you must have a cracking collection of porn :hug:

[Yates]

i has a 500gb one, plenty of room for films, pics and lots of porn

i got it from a shop, unsure what shop tho, it was a while ago, it was about 70 quid

[jaybiss]

I've got

320Gb 2.5" SATA external drive - £70 (approx 60Gb left)
320Gb 3.5" IDE external drive £100 (50Gb left) (Both above via USB)
400Gb SATA NAS enclosure (totalling ~£80) (160Gb free)

and a new 2Tb file server on the go - old server is turned off awaiting data transfer (about 900Gb)

and to answer your question, yeah 500Gb will be enough for your needs.

why do you need all that memory? better still what the hell have you got on them???

[Noddy]

on the IDE drive is all my downloads, then games, films, music, installers (drivers/software)
the SATA drive is for adobe premier editing and unedited footage
The NAS drive is the network media server (music etc) and all the pcs on the network are backed up onto there.

The new server is to hold more media, as well as everyones documents etc... and it'll also be encoding video

The file server that is currently off then holds a backup of everything on the other drives..

[mattchewone]

I have a 1TB hard drive, its a network drive.

I want something a little smaller though like a 500gb to plug in and use. So when i download the photos they go straight on to the drive along with any edits.

[Chris]

I've asked for this for Xmas as my laptop is getting full quite often and I have to keep deleting stuff: -

Buffalo Drivestation 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-Drivestation-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B001ER6CIW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1227563322&sr=8-1)

[Viper]

Western Digital MyBook. 500GB, about 75-80 2 years ago. used basically fuck all on it.

looks good sat on desk though :)

got it from amazon as i had some gift certificates :D

[Barry123]

I've got 2x 80
2x 320
1x 500

and I need more tbh. because I do backups of the backups. no fucking way am I loosing my pics

[Ste-88]

1TB NAS Drive
500GB x2
Few 120GB / 160GB's flying around...

[Predator_R32]

ive got an icybox 250gb, got it about 2 years ago, still not filled it but i deperately needed it for back up of my computer and has come in handy a few times, mainly use it for music now, i payed about 50 quid for it

however my sister won one, a 1000gb western digital one so thats there just incase i fil this one :y:

[Ant_Jackson]

I got a 500 gig one from Maplin last year for £80