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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:

--- Quote from: misachaos on August 19, 2009, 06:23:43 PM ---Also, I was looking for another (cheap under $100) 1TB External. Calvary Any good? i dont need another dying.

Thnx all<3

~ Misa

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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:

--- Quote from: Drew on August 19, 2009, 07:42:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: misachaos on August 19, 2009, 06:23:43 PM ---Also, I was looking for another (cheap under $100) 1TB External. Calvary Any good? i dont need another dying.

Thnx all<3

~ Misa

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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.

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you forget SSD have many other manufacturers that make quality drives

Drew:

--- Quote from: mgz on August 19, 2009, 08:07:36 PM ---you forget SSD have many other manufacturers that make quality drives

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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).

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