You guys know how I like my storage.
 

Well heads up. EBuyer are doing 2TB Western Digital drives for £70 with free P+P.

fookin hell, are SSD's coming down in price yet?

mmm, £150 for 90gb, now that is tempting

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ocz-9...orce-controlle

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. :eek:

yeah, just been looking, that 90gb one i linked is 285m/s

seriously tempted to get one to run windows off now there down to that,,,,,,

even better

OCZ Vertex 90GB

got this email earlier ,was thinking of upgrading the 1.5tb in the Media Player with it

nice, mmmmmm, me thinks new year might have to do the deed when sales start

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.

those seagate hybrid drives are the way to go speed/space value for money

hmmmmm.... 2TB in the AC Ryan would hold a sh1t load of HD porno ;)

what sort of speed increase is there from going from a single drive to striped drive?

with bigger storage, try to go for usb 3.0.

these drives now down to £59.57

Why on earth would you want to watch porn in HD :wonder:

Now - while still thinking about that, what about 3D porn

gents

another aria email. drives now down to 57.99

the spots on her fanny lips gets me off ;)

Guys,

Email from Aria this morning. Samsung 2TB down to £50

Bargain!!!!

ducking hell, thats stupid money.

how hard is it to set up stripped drives? lol

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.

no your not right, from the email mentioned there now £50 :o

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.

sink, do you know how you setup up striped drives?

quite easy but you have to weigh up the transfer speed of a striped drive compared to the drive in JBOD format. i am not sure but i dont think you will necessarily get twice the speed.

you'll get some improvment though?

aslo you can recover one from the other can;t you?

Interesting cheers. Just noticed a few sites selling a WD 1TB external hard drive for £50. More space than I'll ever need. What's involved in buying a bare drive and putting in an external caddy? Because I'm thinking I might as well just buy this as there isn't any setting up required.

extra £10 get a 1.5tb http://www.ebuyer.com/product/244629

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.

Cheap again, but I'll never fill a 1TB in a million years, never mind 1.5! Lol