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i'm hoping to use a large capacity 3.5" drive (around 500GB) in a bus-powered external HDD enclosure for backup and media storage purposes. are there any limitations on using a high capacity 7200rpm drive in a bus-powered enclosure? or does it not make a difference? |
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that's gotta be a BIG enclosure I mean, a bus?! yes, I think 5400 RPM is teh limits. |
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i have a friend with a 500 gig external. they use their own power, so i think they can even spin up to 7200, altho im not sure. and size certainly isnt a problem; its completely unrelated to the power usage. o wait, i just saw that you want to use a bus powered enclosure so i don't really know. in terms of getting an enclosure, id say maybe even look into buying one of the unit that are already assembled. i bought a cheap enclosure a few years ago and the thing was complete crap, flimsy and the unit stopped reading drives after a year. |
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Enclosures for laptop sized drives can be bus powered but I think a desktop drive size enclosure is going to have its own wall wart. Mine does. Keep in mind: SATA or IDE? Or both? There's some that do both. |
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Well, since I *did* work for them... on sale Noticed you're GMT+0, hope you can get it there |
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edit: Those drives aren't big enough, my mistake. |
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thanks everyone for your replies i now has a 250GB 5400rpm portable bus powered Freecom ToughDrive Pro hard drive although i would prefer something faster and bigger, this will have to do for now i guess! |
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whoa, never heard of those guys... they've got some interesting things love the WLAN |
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yeah i thought it was awesome until i found out that you can't actually boot off the goddamn thing :( which was the reason i bought it oh well |
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can't boot off an external drive?... My dad does wif his iMac... Must be your BIOS's support (or lack thereof), then. |
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I don't know about that, but as the topic is already on the subject: I need a new hd.. ~500 gb should do. Anyone got any thoughts? I want low noise. It will mostly be for storage, not OS or any programs that need to run. |
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Seagate makes great drives that are warrantied for 5 years, unheard of from most of the hard drive manufacturers. They have these new perpidicular storage drives that go as big as 750 gb. |
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yeah the machine will boot from an external hard drive, its just that according to various forum posts i've looked at, the Freecom drives don't play too well with this i don't see why not, but yeah apparently it doesn't like it. my system can handle it, as people have booted off of this type of system before |
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Western Digital RE2 series or the Raptors... Trust me on this. I have two RE2's, one 500GB and one 320GB. These have SCSI "guts" and reliability/ratings Quiet as all hell, too I've used nothing but WD drives and have yet to have one fail Seagates are ok as of late, stay the fuck away from Maxtor or IBM! Don't know about Hitachi / anything else |
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every WD drive i've had, and every WD i've known people to have has had serious problems with them i will never touch them again sorry! |
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