external HD

[Illuminae]

i have to buy one for school. my teach says they are selling for like, 1$ a gig, but i just checked online at a few places and they are much more expensive then that. is this a recent thing? or is my teach just on crack? or am i looking at the wrong place? :(
i cant afford this.. :(:(:(

[BadMagick]

hey babes ... I'd just get an iPod! How big do you need? I think the iPod is a GREAT investment. You can use it like an external hard drive, plus you can play music on it.

That's the way I'd go...

[Illuminae]

:( but an ipod is only 15 gigs, i need hardcore storage
plus, do they plug into PCs? i thought they only plugged into macs

where in philly r u? i used to live there. actually ill be there on sat again. hehe

[Illuminae]

does this one look good guys? it seems to me pretty good, it seems to have everything...
http://www.maxstore.com/product.asp?sku=2320117
ive never bought something like this b4, sorry if im beign stupid

[comicGeek]

That's a good HD! Also the speed is good 7200RPMs! :)

[lostinbeta]

I've never bought anything like that, but that same hard-drive as in the link you posted is 10 bucks cheaper at amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008MOPY/qid=1062732158/sr=-3/ref=sr__3_etk-add-ons/102-0039713-9548142?v=glance&s=electronics&n=658488

[Illuminae]

thanks CG, im leaning towards it.

lost, thanks too! ill buy amazon ;)

i have a question, can i install a proggy on it and run it off that? cuz my stupid school had FLASH 5 OMFG EW. and it would be real cool if i could take flash WITH me when i go instead fo torturing myself with their behindedness. otherwise im going to have to buy a laptop, cuz i reFUSE to work with 5. ok. i know im beign a spoiled brat, but i TRIED, i tried sooo hard. but.. i cant, i jsut cant..

[comicGeek]

Yeah i think you can do that! In win98se you can. I don't know if you can do that with XP though! But try!

[BadMagick]

if you have FireWire, i.LINK, or 1394 compatible connection on your computer/laptop you can use an iPod easily. They also have a USB connection for normal people ;O)

iPods can be used on both PCs and MACs, which is why my next computer purchase will be a Macintosh (I just need a change of scenery).

I think the one you showed looks nice, I mean, 160GB is nothing to shake a stick at. It might be kinda slow if you dont' have USB 2.0, not sure how that will go.

[BadMagick]

I'm from South Philadelphia - on 9th Street, not too far from where the "ROCKY" films were made.

I think you asked me this before Red...

I'm currently at Penn State though, so I'd miss you if you went to Philly :O(

[Illuminae]

sorry, magick, ima ditz.. lol..

how do i know if my puter has a USB2 or firewire conenction? also, wtf is 1394? its the 1st ive heard of that

[thoriphes]

1394 is firewire.

what kind of computer do you have?

[Illuminae]

i have a dell dimension 8300, just got it a few weeks ago :)

[comicGeek]

Very nice comp you got there gina! :love:

[rvanet]

wow red! too bad for me.. i really wish i can also have a computer like urs. :*(

[Illuminae]

thansk guys, i liek it, but honestly i shoulda just built my own.. heheh

i dont care though, 17" LCD screen!!!! woooohoooooo, its sooo fun

[Illuminae]

OMFG, I HAVE 8 USB2 CONNECTORS ON MY PUTER

[BadMagick]

NICE! You can never have too many USB ports...

[Illuminae]

not just USB, USB2!!!!!!!!!!! USB2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RelandR]

look again for firewire .... add it if you don't have it (PCI card) it'll make all the difference in the world - usb anything is horribly slow compared to fw.

Also, Research and confirm if the drive will allow booting

it's not just the OS - - it is all about the drive, and I forget the "chip name" that will work but there is a difference, they're not all created equal

soma will and soma won't

[Illuminae]

USB2 is faster then firewire :P

[Illuminae]

thanks for the info though, i will def check that out

[RelandR]

Originally posted by redGolgi
USB2 is faster then firewire :P

not by a long shot

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212126,00.html

[Illuminae]

http://www.aopen.com/tech/techinside/usb2.htm (with a diagram!)

[Ranoka]

I want a larger HDD, I've heard that you can covert an internal IDE HDD into an external one with the right kit. I have 2 40GB disks atm, would love one really huge one, like 160GB or something, and still being able to use the other one, and taking it to uni would be useful.

Why you need so much space Red Golgi?!

[Illuminae]

hey ranoka..
i do cuz im a SPACEHOG

oh yeah, and im in school and ill be transferring all my data back and forth, between home and school, most of which will be enourmosly huge animations, 3d files, videos, sound, ya know, the whole shebang. ;)

[fester8542]

Originally posted by redGolgi
http://www.aopen.com/tech/techinside/usb2.htm (with a diagram!)

I have to look into that.

Im not buying it.

If that were the case then Adobe Premier 6.5 would recomend using USB2 for DV transfer instead of Firewire.

5 minutes of raw DV is like 40GB

[Illuminae]

u all suck.

USB2 is so much better. only , no one has it cept me cuz my puters only a few weeks old. :P :P :P nanana poo poo
its NEWISH (usb2)

[BadMagick]

I dunno there ... I think my firewire port is uber-cool. I think you're just jealous cause you don't have one :Op

[RenaissanceGirl]

USB 2 is newish? I had a USB 2 card on my PC for over a year (that's a LONG time in computerland). Also what about Firewire 800? According to this (http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/productinfo/firewire800.shtml) it blows USB 2 out of the water.

In any case - in regards to the external hard drive... I believe external hardware is always more expensive than internal.

[RelandR]

for those who want to dock a salvaged Internal drive .... via firewire / IEEE 1394::

>>check this Goody<< (http://www.wiebetech.com/products/firewiredrivedock.html)

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...oh and Red: jes pokin' around I keep coming up with the general consensus that FireWire is way faster than USB-2 (all the high end apps recomend it) but haven't seen a side-by-side comparrison that is trustworthy (ie not from someone 'pushing' USB-2) ...yet ..... :)

..but have run across some views that booting via USB would require mods to the bios b4 the machine will allow it (?)

JAT

[Illuminae]

well i think the thing is pretty varied.. some things work faster with usb2 and some with firewire from what i hear.
heres the max speed bit:

USB around 12 or so
firewire 400
usb2 480
firewire 2 (aka firewire 800) 800

so like rengirl was saying, firewire 800 DOES blow usb2 away,
but then again we were talkin about regular firewire so..
;)

anyway, speeds fluxuate and stuff, so. thats it. heh. dinnerfoodtime, leavign now, bye :beam:

[RelandR]

I'd look hard n deep,

USB2's max speed may only apply on certain devices and not nec. w/HD's (?)

I mean FW may be consistant where usb2 fluctuates according to what is connected (?)

have a good dinnerFood

[morse]

http://www.pricewatch.com/

[Illuminae]

hehe, im back. im not getting an external HD anymore. :( i found out ill have problems switching it from a mac to a pc. so i say screw, ill just hold off, save some $$, and buy a laptop. that'll kill a few birds with one, expensive, not cheap, quite expensive, stone.

[Ranoka]

I wouldn't go throwing a latptop at any birds... seems a bit of a waste of technology...

And yes, external is normally quite a bit more expensive then internal.

All this talk of laptops and new HDD isn't helping... o_O

[Illuminae]

no worries ranoka.. ill mail u mine on weekends ;)