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External harddrives are so 2009. Uploading files to the cloud is the way to go. I use dropbox, which syncs all my computers automatically and does version control. www.dropbox.com T From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

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Hi Greg, Here's my criteria: 1. 7200 RPM HDD (fast) 2. 2.5" HDD i.e. Notebook (No power cord) 3. USB + ESATA external enclosure (ESATA is much faster than USB 2.0) (Can fall back to USB if no ESATA) Prices from http://www.umart.com.au: Seagate MOMENTUS 7200.4 500GB SATA 2.

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Hey Greg, Some of the external hard drive enclosures come with both an eSATA port as well as USB ports. Well, the 3.5" hard drive versions anyway. I've no brand recommendation, but make sure it's got some form of cooling (eg: fans). On 4 March 2010 12:53, Tiang Cheng wrote: > External harddri

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Is use Wuala From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tiang Cheng Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:54 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] External hard drives External harddrives are so 2009. Uploading files to the cloud is the way to go. I use

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For a couple of hundred meg, why bother with a drive at all? Just get a usb flash drive. 32GB is less than $50 these days. And they're speed is more than adequate for most activities. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -

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Just remember that power is not supplied over eSATA - you will need to carry around a power adapter or you will need to carry a USB cable (if the drive is a 2.5" one, power can be supplied over USB). If this is just for file storage, then it may just be easier to get an external caddy that has U

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the eSATA port. It's quite seamless and fast. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 1:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] External hard drives Just remember that power is no

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On 4 March 2010 12:49, Greg Keogh wrote: > My wife needs an external hard drive for backing-up and carrying around > her couple of hundred MB of work files. I’ve never owned an ext HDD or > looked at them, so before I drive down to the local MSY (parts > list

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We should see USB3 devices this year. 3.2Gbit/sec should make for awesome hard drive speeds. Wikipedia has fair bit of info on it. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, mike smith wrote: > On 4 March 2010 12:49, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> My wife needs an external hard drive for backing-up and carrying

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On 4 March 2010 15:18, Stephen Price wrote: > We should see USB3 devices this year. 3.2Gbit/sec should make for awesome > hard drive speeds. Wikipedia has fair bit of info on it. > > > FireWire 3200 has a maximum capability of a 3.2Gbps transfer rate, which is 1.6Gbps slower than USB 3.0. However

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Subject: Re: [OT] External hard drives On 4 March 2010 12:49, Greg Keogh mailto:g...@mira.net>> wrote: My wife needs an external hard drive for backing-up and carrying around her couple of hundred MB of work files. I’ve never owned an ext HDD or looked at them, so before I drive down to the

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'm assuming running VMs and using as a compiler target drive. Just *try* doing this with USB. :) > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:57

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Make sure the HDD drive is powered by USB. I bought USB Drive once long time ago and it came with a bulky power supply. David Loo

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Greg, Get your wife a windows.live account.. They give you sky drive.. Which is 2gb I think.. Files are then accessible anywhere an internet connection is available... There's also a little utility called SDExplorer.. Hooks into Explorer, and allows your SkyDrive as another folder on computer.. G

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OOPS! I mean she has a couple of hundred GB of files (NOT MB). Hells bells, I'm thinking so 20th century. Greg

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ursday, 4 March 2010 12:32 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] External hard drives (CORRECTION) OOPS! I mean she has a couple of hundred GB of files (NOT MB). Hells bells, I'm thinking so 20th century. Greg

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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > On Behalf Of Greg Keogh > Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:32 PM > To: 'ozDotNet' > Subject: RE: [OT] External hard drives (CORRECTION) > > OOPS! I mean she has a couple of hundred GB of files

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Ah, well I suppose you could use 6 x 32 GB usb flash drives in raid 0 :) More realistically though, without knowing how the files are being used, I'd say 2.5" drive (as big as you're willing to pay for) and a drive case that you have checked will support the size you buy. Some of the cheap ones d

RE: [OT] External hard drives (Done)

Thanks everyone for the advice. I believe Ken's advice that if it's just for backups and carrying files around then a USB connection is good enough. The guy in the shop pointed out that the 2.5" drives were the USB ones, and they came in 2 or 1 cable versions. So I picked the 500GB Seagate 1-cable

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Greg, On 4 March 2010 16:50, Greg Keogh wrote: > Thanks everyone for the advice. I believe Ken’s advice that if it’s just > for backups and carrying files around then a USB connection is good enough. > The guy in the shop pointed out that the 2.5" drives were the USB ones, and > they came in 2

RE: [OT] External hard drives (Done)

zdotnet.com] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 2:14 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] External hard drives (Done) Greg, On 4 March 2010 16:50, Greg Keogh wrote: Thanks everyone for the advice. I

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...@jlta.com.au Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 2:55 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: [OT] External hard drives (Done) Just to add to noonie's comment, Dell laptops and desktops are renowned for not actually following the USB specification and providing insufficient power on the USB port

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Guys, luckily this USB drive will mostly be plugged in to the office desktop which was built last Xmas. I hope and expect that this beast has a 1.21 gigawatt power supply that will let the USB power both the drive and a flux capacitor on a single cable. At other times it might be plugged into a

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lol. Is the mac book today's de lorien? On 4 March 2010 22:38, Greg Keogh wrote: > Guys, luckily this USB drive will mostly be plugged in to the office > desktop which was built last Xmas. I hope and expect that this beast has a > 1.21 gigawatt power supply that will let the USB power both the

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On 5 March 2010 08:17, Preet Sangha wrote: > lol. Is the mac book today's de lorien? > > http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20071207/get-your-own-flux-capacitor/ Doesn't claim to work from a usb port. > > On 4 March 2010 22:38, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> Guys, luckily this USB drive will mostly be p