Rigging old Desktop for external?

[misachaos]

Hey guys! my 3.5' External died today and i figured out it wasnt the HDD rather the parts in the crappyness of the usb plug...thing.
Well, I have 2 old Desktop PC's HP Pavilion a000's ones a Athlon (2.8ghz)  others a Pentium4 (2.6ghz) Im not sure it matters but, any chance in the possibilities of bieng able to rig a desktop up as an external using the parts or w/e.

Also, I was looking for another (cheap under $100) 1TB External. Calvary Any good? i dont need another dying.

Thnx all<3

~ Misa

[sdedalus83]

It'd be cheaper and easier to get a new enclosure than it would be to set up an old computer as a file server.
The file server option is more reliable, though. 

[Drew]

Also, I was looking for another (cheap under $100) 1TB External. Calvary Any good? i dont need another dying.

Thnx all<3

~ Misa

Do NOT buy a hard-drive from anyone but WD, Seagate, or Samsung. Doing so will only bring you tears, as it's pretty much guaranteed either to be DoA, or die within the first month.

[mgz]

Also, I was looking for another (cheap under $100) 1TB External. Calvary Any good? i dont need another dying.

Thnx all<3

~ Misa

Do NOT buy a hard-drive from anyone but WD, Seagate, or Samsung. Doing so will only bring you tears, as it's pretty much guaranteed either to be DoA, or die within the first month.

you forget SSD have many other manufacturers that make quality drives

[Drew]

you forget SSD have many other manufacturers that make quality drives

Yeah, but it sounds like he's going for a 1TB drive - which AFAIK doesn't exist in world of SSDs yet (and if it does, I'm sure it's meant for enterprise solutions and is without a doubt prohibitively expensive).

[BuriaL]

Hey guys! my 3.5' External died today and i figured out it wasnt the HDD rather the parts in the crappyness of the usb plug...thing.
Well, I have 2 old Desktop PC's HP Pavilion a000's ones a Athlon (2.8ghz)  others a Pentium4 (2.6ghz) Im not sure it matters but, any chance in the possibilities of bieng able to rig a desktop up as an external using the parts or w/e.

Also, I was looking for another (cheap under $100) 1TB External. Calvary Any good? i dont need another dying.

Thnx all<3

~ Misa

If theres space in youre computer case i think you should buy something like this.
Then you wont have to spend alot of money, and youre hardrive is safe inside the case

i dont trust externals, not the ones with cheap enclosures anyways.

[Drew]

i dont trust externals, not the ones with cheap enclosures anyways.

Yep. You're better off just taping the drive to the inside of the case, I think.

[misachaos]

I... had a clamp. still do, ill try to do that. thing is ya Calvary Caum 1tb series externals have Western Digital HDD's. so it should be alright. but for now i have to rig a desktop with my seagate hdd. which is a 500GB SeaGate Barracuda.I dont...trust seagate anymore.

[fohfoh]

I... had a clamp. still do, ill try to do that. thing is ya Calvary Caum 1tb series externals have Western Digital HDD's. so it should be alright. but for now i have to rig a desktop with my seagate hdd. which is a 500GB SeaGate Barracuda.I dont...trust seagate anymore.

I hear they took over that shitty company whose name I forget. They've been having issues since. But I still trust their drives to a certain extent.

WD for sure would take my vote for regular HDDs. They released some "green version" recently too which is great for file severs and backups. (From what I've read).

Double check your parts though. I had an old P4 I tried to make into a file server, and abandoned after a little bit. There was some issue with the mobo which it was frying the older HDDs I was putting into it as a test.

[kureshii]

I hear they took over that shitty company whose name I forget. They've been having issues since. But I still trust their drives to a certain extent.

Maxtor?

Since the firmware issue came to light I've always been more careful around Seagate drives. It's good that they are (forced to be) upfront about faults with their products, but I bought 4 Seagate Barracuda 11s for my NAS, and now one of them just failed shortly after a year later. Hopefully a firmware flash will do the job, but I'm going with WD next time.

WD for sure would take my vote for regular HDDs. They released some "green version" recently too which is great for file severs and backups. (From what I've read).

I like what I hear about the Caviar Greens. Not for use as a system drive definitely, but the low heat and power consumption makes it a great storage drive for home servers. Can't wait to buy a few and try them out (just waiting for September...)

[misachaos]

Double check your parts though. I had an old P4 I tried to make into a file server, and abandoned after a little bit. There was some issue with the mobo which it was frying the older HDDs I was putting into it as a test.

Ok, ill try the file server with the Athlon see how it goes

Yea, seagate aquired maxtor in 2006.

[fohfoh]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136351

$120 USD for 1.5 TB

WD Caviar Green

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

$95 USD for 1 TB

WD Caviar

Seems within your price range... but then again... shipping...

EDIT: the $95 dollar one includes free shipping in USA.

[misachaos]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136351

$120 USD for 1.5 TB

WD Caviar Green

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

$95 USD for 1 TB

WD Caviar

Seems within your price range... but then again... shipping...

EDIT: the $95 dollar one includes free shipping in USA.

Thanks tohtoh!

well the $95 plus -15% total price,  remember the hdd sale?

[fohfoh]

Sort of. I use newegg canada instead of USA though.

But yeah. I was drooling at some HDDs before my proposed file server had detrimental issues and I had to scrap that plan.

[misachaos]

Ah well! I will tell you how it goes with the AMD Athlon.

[fohfoh]

Yeah, it was a bad month. BOTH my old p3 and p4 died in the same month. (Who would have thought) err... correction. P4 was too unstable to continue using. After failing to read HDDs and me fixing it 3 times in a span of 4 days... I decided it was enough and time to chuck.

Good luck with yours. I doubt you'll find too many issues with your (proposed) fileserver though.

[misachaos]

Yeah, it was a bad month. BOTH my old p3 and p4 died in the same month. (Who would have thought) err... correction. P4 was too unstable to continue using. After failing to read HDDs and me fixing it 3 times in a span of 4 days... I decided it was enough and time to chuck.

Good luck with yours. I doubt you'll find too many issues with your (proposed) fileserver though.

Watch me fail harder and faster. lol
Trying is better then doing nothing at all ^^