You guys know how I like my storage.
29 October 2010, 12:30 PM
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the slower drives (125MB/sec) are coming down in price but the fast drives (280MB/sec) are still on the pricy side. new 240GB IBIS drive (720MB/sec) is around 600 odd quid. 
29 October 2010, 12:35 PM
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Much better value than the 120GB version but that's because you're also getting a controller card to get away from the SATA bottleneck.
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17 November 2010, 01:55 PM
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I'm not that clued up on computer stuff and have never had external hard drives, but am I reading that right as 2 terabytes of storage for 70 quid? What's the deal with the speeds and how do they compare to build in hard drives? Would prefer something like this so I could keep my laptop's hard drive freed up.
17 November 2010, 01:57 PM
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I'm not that clued up on computer stuff and have never had external hard drives, but am I reading that right as 2 terabytes of storage for 70 quid? What's the deal with the speeds and how do they compare to build in hard drives? Would prefer something like this so I could keep my laptop's hard drive freed up.
17 November 2010, 02:31 PM
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alan,
tidgy is right it is now £50. these are bare drives you can put in an external caddy. i have quite a few 500GB and 1 TB drives like this now as back up. you will be limited by the 300MB/sec transfer speed of USB2 but it is still enough to stream .avi files to your tv.
i am seriously thinking about a cheap SSD for my Win7 installation. 20 and 40GB drives can be had for buttons now.
tidgy is right it is now £50. these are bare drives you can put in an external caddy. i have quite a few 500GB and 1 TB drives like this now as back up. you will be limited by the 300MB/sec transfer speed of USB2 but it is still enough to stream .avi files to your tv.
i am seriously thinking about a cheap SSD for my Win7 installation. 20 and 40GB drives can be had for buttons now.
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17 November 2010, 05:11 PM
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alan,
tidgy is right it is now £50. these are bare drives you can put in an external caddy. i have quite a few 500GB and 1 TB drives like this now as back up. you will be limited by the 300MB/sec transfer speed of USB2 but it is still enough to stream .avi files to your tv.
i am seriously thinking about a cheap SSD for my Win7 installation. 20 and 40GB drives can be had for buttons now.
tidgy is right it is now £50. these are bare drives you can put in an external caddy. i have quite a few 500GB and 1 TB drives like this now as back up. you will be limited by the 300MB/sec transfer speed of USB2 but it is still enough to stream .avi files to your tv.
i am seriously thinking about a cheap SSD for my Win7 installation. 20 and 40GB drives can be had for buttons now.
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tidgy it depends on which RAID config you use. check out the wikipedia guide. i am guessing you want RAID 1+0. mirror and striped. you will need a minimum of 4 discs though to get the increased performance.