External Hard Drives

[lazerman]

Hey all, I was wondering what a good external hard drive space for money?

I didnt expect to use up 1.5T of HHD in 4 months tbh.

I also wondered if there is a better option such as server space or w.e? I don't excalty want external hard drives stacking up on one another. Any suggestions?

[Colin-Roberts]

making a cheap media server might be a good bet for you..

[Black_Apalachi]

I got a 500GB one (I think, can't remember for sure) for £60 but then my mate got one, same memory I think but he found one which was much smaller and only required a USB cable (where as mine also requires a mains cable which is annoying, especially when I now know it isn't necessary). Just look around and ask anyone you know who may already have one, is all I can say.

[lazerman]

making a cheap media server might be a good bet for you..


What is a media server?



I got a 500GB one (I think, can't remember for sure) for £60 but then my mate got one, same memory I think but he found one which was much smaller and only required a USB cable (where as mine also requires a mains cable which is annoying, especially when I now know it isn't necessary). Just look around and ask anyone you know who may already have one, is all I can say.


I got 1tb enternal hard drive which is powered, pain in the arse but you know ;/!

Any other ideas, I dont really want harddrives all stacked up on the side of my desk :/

[N!ck]

Well if you have room inside your PC and the SATA sockets free on your motherboard along with relevant power connectors/adapters then just buy internal drives?

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?store=2&cat=4&subcat=1090
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/?x=12&p_order=price_asc&p=cF9zdHlsZT1saXN0JnBfcHJvZHVjdHNQZXJQYWdlPSY=

[Black_Apalachi]

I don't know of any possible solutions other than a stack of externals or extra internals :P I'm not sure what the highest capacity is that you can possibly get in an external, is it 1TB? Would be awesome if you could get wireless ones though (actually I'd be surprised if you couldn't already)

[lazerman]

Well if you have room inside your PC and the SATA sockets free on your motherboard along with relevant power connectors/adapters then just buy internal drives?

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?store=2&cat=4&subcat=1090
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/?x=12&p_order=price_asc&p=cF9zdHlsZT1saXN0JnBfcHJvZHVjdHNQZXJQYWdlPSY=



Room inside is abit full :(.

Guess im only stacking up the HHD then :eusa_danc

[StefanWolves]

Just buy the Maxtor 1TB externals, I think you can pick them up for about £80.

May I be cheeky enough to ask what on earth you are downloading to fill up 1.5tb of space in 4 months? got to be BluRays or something...?

[lazerman]

Just buy the Maxtor 1TB externals, I think you can pick them up for about £80.

May I be cheeky enough to ask what on earth you are downloading to fill up 1.5tb of space in 4 months? got to be BluRays or something...?


Nahhh, 720p movies from HD-torrents basically..




including 'porn'


nah, serouisly, it mostly filled with movies ;)

[StefanWolves]

720p? :P why not the full thing. ;)

Anyway, nice. :)

[lazerman]

TV only 40/42" so yeh lol...

Wont notice much diffence and the computer and graphics card are not good enough to display 1080(p)/(i)

I might ask for a new graphics card, or later on in the year I might build custom one for myself


edit: with a lot of space for hard drives for sure!