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Well, having had the PC rebuilt with two 80gig hard drives, we've now invested in a 320gig external drive as well. PC World (Pah - *spits*!) have an offer at the moment on the Seagate 320gig USB ext HD which seemed to be pretty good - will cover what we need anyway. Offer runs until about Wednesday if anyone else is interested......

Will have a play tonight/tomorrow and post an opinion once it's set up.
 
Hmm... not sure about external HDs. Anyhoo, each to their own.

I just bought a Western Digital Caviar IDE HD (internal), 200GB, 7200RPM, 8mb cache - a bargain at £48. It'll keep my 80GB Maxtor unit company, and I guess the now spare 40GB Maxtor drive will end up in the g/f's PC at some point.
 
I have an external Lacie Brick drive that i use to mirror my MacBook :) It should save me if the MB dies or gets stolen!!
 
IanC_UK said:
PCworld seem to be doing some great offers ! really unusual as they used to be one of the most expensive places to buy anything ! lol
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I agree - their prices are quite decent! They still make terrible TV ads though - The one for this Seagate ext hdd refers to the storage space as "memory" - must have asked one of their thicker members of staff to write the script :wave:
Paul ;)
PS - I back up all my pics mp3 & other important bits to my ext hdd :geek:
 
PaulBoy said:
I agree - their prices are quite decent! They still make terrible TV ads though - The one for this Seagate ext hdd refers to the storage space as "memory" - must have asked one of their thicker members of staff to write the script :wave:
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Must have been written by the same person who said that dual core processors "let you upload as well as download". :shrug:
 
GfK said:
Must have been written by the same person who said that dual core processors "let you upload as well as download". :shrug:
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PaulBoy said:
I agree - their prices are quite decent! They still make terrible TV ads though - The one for this Seagate ext hdd refers to the storage space as "memory" - must have asked one of their thicker members of staff to write the script
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LMAO yes have to agree !
 
I have a Tosh 320gb HDD purchased from (spit) PC world, they were the cheapest around at the time, and its a great bit of kit.
I much preffer external HDD's to store my sensitive stuff on, as its not used too frequently but more as a backup its less likely to fail! (i hope!)
 
Steep said:
But but it IS memory!
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Indeed. Technically any part or device of a computer which stores information for later recall is memory, not just the RAM. The BIOS is like procedural memory, RAM for short term memory, and a hard drive is analogous to long term memory.

I buy separate enclosures and disks and build my own external drives. Although "build" simply means plug the cables into the drive and close the box.

I have one for all my photos to go on, and then on another I have a partition to keep a backup copy of all the non-test images. Might soon need to get another to be a dedicated backup though as the partition I use is only a quarter of the size of the main drive.

Michael.
 
I had been toying with the idea of getting a 2.5" disc to go into an enclosure I have but the price of the seagate swayed me, I went down to PCWorld (spits) just now and bought one. Easy as pie to install and set up, someone seems to have stolen 22gb off the top but it's not worth going back to complain about ;)
 
Steep said:
I had been toying with the idea of getting a 2.5" disc to go into an enclosure I have but the price of the seagate swayed me, I went down to PCWorld (spits) just now and bought one. Easy as pie to install and set up, someone seems to have stolen 22gb off the top but it's not worth going back to complain about ;)
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When any hard drive is formatted, regardless of size, you always lose a percentage of space allocated for filesystems and such - usually about 5%.
 
I havce had two 160GB drives in external closures linked as network storage via a Linsys Network Storage adaptor. One disk mirrors the other as a form of back up. They are getting full now ( as are twin 200gbs on PC) and looking for a Terrabyte solution next.

Would like an off-site solution but that is just too expensive. :eek:
 
Steep said:
But but it IS memory!
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Memory = RAM BIOS etc
Storage = Hard Disk
As explained here on Wiki:
In contemporary usage, memory usually refers to a form of solid state storage known as random access memory (RAM) and sometimes other forms of fast but temporary storage. Similarly, storage more commonly refers to mass storage - optical discs, forms of magnetic storage like hard disks, and other types of storage which are slower than RAM, but of a more permanent nature. These contemporary distinctions are helpful, because they are also fundamental to the architecture of computers in general. As well, they reflect an important and significant technical difference between memory and mass storage devices, which has been blurred by the historical usage of the terms "main storage" (and sometimes "primary storage") for random access memory, and "secondary storage" for mass storage devices
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JMHO of course ... Paul ;)
 
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Joe Bloggs who writes wiki entries is often misinformed but in this case he's covering his a** nicely.

Call a hard drive mass storage if you like but to say that it's not memory is plain wrong.
 
Steep said:
Joe Bloggs who writes wiki entries is often misinformed but in this case he's covering his a** nicely.

Call a hard drive mass storage if you like but to say that it's not memory is plain wrong.
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Agreed, in fact the hard drive IS used as memory (virtual memory) by the computer. Data is passed from 'memory' to page files and temporarily saved on the hard drives 'memory' :thumbs:
 
I've got two Freecom 250Gb drives and I just bought another Freecom 400Gb drive to back-up to.
So far (finger's X'd) they've been fine - the two 250Gb drives having been to Malawi (35C, monsoons and 90% humidity), Iraq (50C and dry) and Afghanistan (60C and very dry) with no dramas. In Afghan all the IT kit was so hot we draped damp cloths over everything to try and keep it cool!

I'me very impressed with these things considering the price and also considering that our more expensive LaCie drives have all had problems in the heat.
 
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