You guys know how I like my storage.
17 November 2010, 05:23 PM
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^^^^^^^ fack off Alan. i have around 15TB spread over 4 PCs and 2 laptops on my network. buy a 2TB and a USB caddy for about £70. future proof yourself. who knows you could get to like those bluray pornos 
17 November 2010, 05:29 PM
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Hahaha, can't see my collection ever growing to that size. Have around 27GB at the moment!
Soo, wtf is a caddy and how do I go about making it work with a 'bare drive'? Any other stuff to know or do these just work without any installation of drivers etc?
Soo, wtf is a caddy and how do I go about making it work with a 'bare drive'? Any other stuff to know or do these just work without any installation of drivers etc?
17 November 2010, 05:48 PM
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buy a usb caddy for 3.5inch drive. make sure it is a SATA caddy not IDE. undo the screws in the back plate, slide out the frame in which the bare drive will be screwed into. screw the drive into the frame. slide the drive in its frame back into the caddy. the back plate will have the power supply switch and the power and SATA connector for the drive. the connectors cannot be put on the wrong way. just connect them up. screw the back plate of the caddy back into place. most caddys will have a small extermal power supply. plug it in connect the USB cable to your computer and it should see the 2TB drive. you will need to use Windows disk management to format the drive first time. please note that 2TB is an advertised "unformatted" capacity. when you format the drive will only be about 1.8TB.
no drivers needed as windows just sees the drive as a big usb pen drive. i would recommend switching them off when they are not in use as the small fans in the back of the caddy can be a bit noisy.
no drivers needed as windows just sees the drive as a big usb pen drive. i would recommend switching them off when they are not in use as the small fans in the back of the caddy can be a bit noisy.
17 November 2010, 06:08 PM
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Neil - Cheers, sounds simple enough, even for me. Was thinking the same as Ant though, can't find it. Aria have a 2TB for £67.56. No sign of the £50 one though.
17 November 2010, 06:44 PM
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18 November 2010, 12:08 PM
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I added it to basket, went to checkout, it automatically added £7.95 delivery but said more delivery options would be available after logging in. I went to the hassle of creating an account, but that only gave me another option of £15 for Saturday delivery.
At £68 including delivery it's only £1 cheaper than ebuyer unfortunately.
At £68 including delivery it's only £1 cheaper than ebuyer unfortunately.
20 November 2010, 02:23 PM
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ok guys. on overclockers this morning and they are taking pre orders for the new Western Digital 3TB green drive. only 5400rpm though. also saw a nice 480GB SSD at nearly £900 
OCZ have a 960GB version of this drive as well.
OCZ have a 960GB version of this drive as well.
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