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BuriaL:

--- Quote from: misachaos on August 19, 2009, 06:23:43 PM ---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

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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:

--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 19, 2009, 08:40:19 PM ---i dont trust externals, not the ones with cheap enclosures anyways.

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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:

--- Quote from: misachaos on August 19, 2009, 11:15:44 PM ---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.

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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:

--- Quote from: fohfoh on August 20, 2009, 12:03:14 PM ---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.
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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.


--- Quote from: fohfoh on August 20, 2009, 12:03:14 PM ---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).
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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...)

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