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dynamic
01-01-2007, 20:19
400bg hd (http://www.thedvdforums.com/jump2.php?url=http://astore.amazon.co.uk/thedvdforums-21/detail/B000FVVLJI/203-7320838-0946305)

Seemed cheap... could only see the post about the more expensive one... hope its not a dupe
pl0nk0r
01-01-2007, 23:01
from a search on the comments from the reviewer there, it apparently has a Samsung HD400LJ drive in it, which is SATA 2, 8mb buffer

£82 ex del is the cheapest i could find the drive alone at aria

so another £17 for the external case isnt too bad for the price
Danimal
02-01-2007, 08:38
Can anyone recommend a good caddy for an internal drive?

from a search on the comments from the reviewer there, it apparently has a Samsung HD400LJ drive in it, which is SATA 2, 8mb buffer

£82 ex del is the cheapest i could find the drive alone at aria

so another £17 for the external case isnt too bad for the price
mbailey3
02-01-2007, 10:22
The Icy Box's seem to get good ratings. They seem to have lots of different ones available for PATA and SATA drives, with USB, Firewire or External SATA interface. Just make sure you order the correct one!

Check our Aria (http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Name=icy+box) and Savastore (http://www.savastore.com/catalog/search.aspx?initial=true&keyword=icy+box)

3.5" Icy Box (http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/products/external_cases_gal.php?search=35inch)

IB-351 is the original model - Fanless
IB-360 next version - Fanless
IB-370 recently launch - includes FAN
Rip Curl
02-01-2007, 10:29
Cheers just went for one of these, as I had a gift voucher for £51 from work, so got this for £49 to my pocket. :D
gitesh
02-01-2007, 11:12
Wouldn't this Lacie 500GB (http://www.thedvdforums.com/jump2.php?url=http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p(50662)a(60823)url(http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=44LG&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=lacie+500gb&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0)) be better value for money from Dabs? What are these Lacie drives like?
Faythur
02-01-2007, 11:18
I guess some people might be put off by the Hitachi drive...which is also IDE [ATA133] with an 8Mb cache. Can't fault the vfm though ;)
gitesh
02-01-2007, 11:26
How about this Western Digital 500GB (http://www.thedvdforums.com/jump2.php?url=http://astore.amazon.co.uk/thedvdforums-21/detail/B000EXZB0M/203-7320838-0946305) at Amazon? I take it the Hitachi Drives are not that great then? Also, whats the difference with IDE and which would be better in your opinion?
pl0nk0r
02-01-2007, 11:47
Theres way too many of these poping up atm, how about this one too

Philips 320GB 3.5" Desktop Hard Disk Drive USB 2.0 (http://www.thedvdforums.com/jump2.php?url=http://astore.amazon.co.uk/thedvdforums-21/detail/B000JHYAY6/203-7320838-0946305)
mgb_dvd
02-01-2007, 12:01
The Lacie ones, like almost all of the third party units have whatever drives were cheap that week - they were complaints about overheating in the 250Gb models becuase there was no fan.

WD drives are fine, maxtor used to be the worst but WD bought maxtor - so make what you want.
The hitachi thing is a reference to a bad set of IBM drives ( one model of deskstar - known as deathstar ! ) IBM sold their drive business to Hitachi.
gitesh
02-01-2007, 12:21
Still tempted by the Lacie because of the price. Hopefully the overheating will not be a problem with a fan now.... looks nice too. Just a trade off with price etc against the WD
thevoiceofalan
02-01-2007, 12:23
I have a WD/maxtor job and it is great had it for a a few years now no problems. I have had two lacies one at work and one bought. Both have borked and been sent back recieved a replaced again same problem a few months later I would avoid lacie. Seagate are great imho tempted by these drives that are kicking about in forums atm.
gitesh
02-01-2007, 12:30
Do you have a link to the Seagate drives?
Cheatman
02-01-2007, 19:17
maxtor used to be the worst but WD bought maxtor - so make what you want.

Had very few problems myself with Maxtors apart from a particularly old noisy one, WD didn't buy them though - Seagate did.
Faythur
02-01-2007, 23:03
IMHO the best hard drives at the moment are made by Samsung - quick, quiet and reliable.

This 500Gb 16Mb cache model can be had for £100 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=327715 Just add an enclosure ;)
WildWayz
03-01-2007, 10:11
Is SataII the same connectors as SataI ?
Faythur
03-01-2007, 10:22
Yep
WildWayz
03-01-2007, 10:25
ta - some of these deals kicking about are excellent!

I had one of those (well 2 of them) IBM DeskStar drives that both died within weeks of each other! IBM did replace them quickly - which died a few years later.

Currently got 2 x Maxtor 160GB HD's that i've had for about 4 years now! One of the drives has just started to fail - so some of the drive mentioned above would be ideal! :P
evilsly
03-01-2007, 10:28
IMHO the best hard drives at the moment are made by Samsung - quick, quiet and reliable.

This 500Gb 16Mb cache model can be had for £100 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=327715 Just add an enclosure ;)


reliable ?

my 400gig version of this one has just died yesterday

after 3 months
mbailey3
03-01-2007, 10:32
reliable ?

my 400gig version of this one has just died yesterday

after 3 months

It seems to be more of common thing these days unfortunately.

Over heated? Do you have any heatsinks attached? What temperature does it usually run at?

Was the drive running all the time, or powered on/off each day?
evilsly
03-01-2007, 10:37
I have a total of 5 discs, all with their own cooling system, temperatures weren't an issue and the other 4 discs are all fine. It was running 24/7 but was a 'back up' drive so wasn't actually being written to/read from very often.