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anyone have one of these? or better yet an enclosure with a RAID? I want to start backing up shit (and having more storage!) regularly.. and my ownlltlrlktj puter is lapotFUSUPTUP |
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this thread sucks. I need reverse bumo REVERSE BUMP |
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have a cheap usb2/firewire enclosure for 3.5" drives. needs to be powered externally, but it works. if you want something on the go, buy an ipod - they're actually quite good for the purpose, and the pricing isn't too bad at all (compare it to other 2.5" enclosures + drives). |
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I FUCKING HATE IPODS DONT EVER SAY THAT AGAIN I'll probably just get a USB2 enclosure, or better yet a cabinet when I have money this summer so I can set something up with decent redundancy. |
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why do you hate ipods? note, i don't own one - i'm neutral on the subject. just that for the price, you'd be paying comparable to a USB2 enclosure + drive, and it's not going to be as well supported (I've seen incompatible drives+enclosures result in smoke before, heh. What defines the incompatibility I'm entirely unsure on.) is this for external backup storage, or for portability? |
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storage! ipods are fucking relics. no modern features, over priced, and fucking ugly. |
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have apple put the price up on ipods lately or something now that they've become 'hip'? i remember looking at them years ago and they were incredibly attractive to buy purely as a portable hard drive but jesus christ they're expensive now. and yeah, i know, i couldn't give a shit about their mp3 player features. i'm talking purely as storage. in that case, get yourself a 3.5" enclosure and throw a drive into it. mine cost me about AU$60 wholesale - cheap as crap. does a good 25meg/sec, too. supposedly sata was meant to be great because it'd mean easily external drives or something, wasn't it? i'm yet to see cases designed for it, though. |
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I have an maxtor "one touch" external firewire/usb2 which supports firewire chaining to other drives its not given me any problems so far I am not sure if you can turn them into a raid or not |
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I'm poor and lazy so I'll probably just get a 3.5" enclosure and something massive, 200GB, and fucking slow, but dependable. of course paranoia from data loss will ensue. bahhhh |
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ive got one of thems too. it kicks ass, and theyre dirt cheap for the storage space, something like $80 for 120 gb. |
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I had a 120gb crash on me a few months ago, I lost a few years worth of mp3 collecting dag gummert! |
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yeah I'm paranoid about shit like that, which is why I wanted to have a raid... easy failover. |
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I could probably stack two enclosures and have a handy (literally) simple mirroring software RAID.. yeah or something .. yeah |
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hmmm are they making computers with external serial ATA connections? haven't heard of it.. |
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are people retarded? what's up with all those vertical drive enclosures?!!? drives weren't made to be oriented in that way. |
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compaq used to store their drives vertically on the insides my guess is that it's a space thing, either that or maybe they don't want gravity sucking the read head down onto the platter |
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do yourself a favour and don't run a FAT32 partition that big; windows often has fits if you unplug the drive without properly unmounting it and you'll end up with most the data on the partition corrupt (yes, that's even with caching on the drive disabled). my 200gig external is half ext2/ntfs at the moment. i wish there was a decent, dependable read/write filesystem suitable for external drives that had solid drivers for linux/OS X/windows, but it seems there isn't short of FAT32. sigh. |
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can a hard drive used for windows be formated and used as an external HD on a mac? |
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sure, if you use FAT32. FAT32 tends to suck for partitions over about 32 gig, though. |
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I don't run anything but leenux, dontcha worry |
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Oh yes,now they have released an small hd that contains 1 TeraByte of space. Its expensive,of course. |
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was that @ me |
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oh, cool, ext3 is fine for that, then. don't run xfs on an external drive - it doesn't handle being removed terribly well :) |
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and yeah, sorry |
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np man thanks :) |
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