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"Folkert Rienstra"wrote
snip Nope. Indeed. "Rod Speed" wrote Really depends on what you do to move the files to and from the external drive and whether you will ever do that using the new faster firewire 800 Generally they cant. I was more referring there to the firewire alt and should have said that more carefully. Andy wrote See: http://www.aldi.co.uk/specials_01_11/offers_nav.htm 160 Gig Firewire/USB2 for £120 today. I've just picked one up and my local store (Mold, North Wales) seemed to have about 30 left. Seems to be the same as the EZ Disk drive from: http://www.amacom-tech.com/main.html The Amacom drives seem to retail at around £300 VAT inc but they are only either Firewire or USB2. Box shows; Seagate, Ultra ATA, Smart, Firewire, USB2, Logos. 7200RPM, Vert or Horiz mounting, On/Off switch, 2MB Cache. Model Medion MD 40308. Seems solidly built. 3 years Guarantee. Hi gentlemen, thanks for your comments. It interesting to notice how firewire is faster than usb2.0, even though usb2.0 has the higher throughput spec. Anyway I am not intending to do any A/V editing with this *external drive*, just to be able to back-up a load of data before the system is *reformatted*. For compatibility sake I think usb1.0/2.0 is the way to go. Andy: thanks for *ALDI* link, never heard of them before. Interesting to see that they are offering: http://www.aldi.co.uk/specials_01_11...ssortment.html ? That external drive seems very good value, almost too good? hmmm. I ordered last night a Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 External Drive Enclosure Kit F5U209uk (£58.74) in which I will slap either an older drive or a new 80GB one, but please post back how u get on with that *ALDI* special! One more quick question, would an older computer have a problem *recognising* a huge disk capacity if it was via the USB interface? -- Wayne ][ |
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Wayne Youngman wrote in message ... Andy wrote See: http://www.aldi.co.uk/specials_01_11/offers_nav.htm 160 Gig Firewire/USB2 for £120 today. I've just picked one up and my local store (Mold, North Wales) seemed to have about 30 left. Seems to be the same as the EZ Disk drive from: http://www.amacom-tech.com/main.html The Amacom drives seem to retail at around £300 VAT inc but they are only either Firewire or USB2. Box shows; Seagate, Ultra ATA, Smart, Firewire, USB2, Logos. 7200RPM, Vert or Horiz mounting, On/Off switch, 2MB Cache. Model Medion MD 40308. Seems solidly built. 3 years Guarantee. Hi gentlemen, thanks for your comments. It interesting to notice how firewire is faster than usb2.0, even though usb2.0 has the higher throughput spec. Yeah, basically the result of the firewire protocol being optimised for the movement of bulk data and USB being a lot more than just that. Anyway I am not intending to do any A/V editing with this *external drive*, just to be able to back-up a load of data before the system is *reformatted*. For compatibility sake I think usb1.0/2.0 is the way to go. Yeah, spose so. While firewire is faster, the difference isnt huge and it does limit your choice considerably. Andy: thanks for *ALDI* link, never heard of them before. They're doing that world wide now, interesting concept. Interesting to see that they are offering: http://www.aldi.co.uk/specials_01_11...ssortment.html ? That external drive seems very good value, almost too good? hmmm. They appear to be pricing that stuff very aggressively to get people thru their doors, presumably hoping they will continue to use their stores for food purchases in the future. Interesting concept in how to get people's attention rather than just spending on advertising that most just ignore etc. They've also got some very unusual ideas about even talking to the media at all. They appear to deliberately tease the market that way, so people will take some notice. Going to be interesting to see how they go over say a decade or more. I ordered last night a Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 External Drive Enclosure Kit F5U209uk (£58.74) in which I will slap either an older drive or a new 80GB one, but please post back how u get on with that *ALDI* special! The main potential problem with aldi specials is ongoing support. Be interesting to know what the story is there, whether there is decent web site support for drivers etc. One more quick question, would an older computer have a problem *recognising* a huge disk capacity if it was via the USB interface? Should be fine as long as the bridge in the external box can handle the drive size. 48bit LBA support is an entirely ATA problem, basically in the ata driver. Since that isnt used with USB drives, its shouldnt be a problem. It certainly isnt with scsi for example. It would be worth checking that the external box does have support for drives over 137GB in the bridge used inside the box tho. Not all of the bridge chips do and its possible that this model is being run out because it doesnt. |
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"Rod Speed" wrote
snip It would be worth checking that the external box does have support for drives over 137GB in the bridge used inside the box tho. Not all of the bridge chips do and its possible that this model is being run out because it doesn't. Hi, thanks for info. The particular model I bought goes up to 120GB I think (ATA/100), that should more than cover me for my needs, however my point was would I be able to use that with an older USB enabled system that can't support large drives, but you made it clear that it probably will be fine. -- Wayne ][ |
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