External HD 300GB???

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dansilva

New Member
hello. i am looking foward to buy an exterbal HD very soon. i am talking about at least 250GB+ (300GB will be IDEAL). i would like you experties to help me find a very very good HD that is at a reasonable cost, LOW noise and very reliable (this is a important factor as well as the noise).

i would really appreciate your help.
thank you for ur time
 
Super_Nova

Super_Nova

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I'm not sure where to buy them already made. I was going to find some sort of enclosure and then stack 4 250GB drives together using USB2.0/Firewire to IDE adapter cards and then get a 4 port USB2.0 and a 4 port Firewire hub to go in the enclosure. Then format the whole array with a striped volume.
 
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4W4K3

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Super_Nova said:
I'm not sure where to buy them already made. I was going to find some sort of enclosure and then stack 4 250GB drives together using USB2.0/Firewire to IDE adapter cards and then get a 4 port USB2.0 and a 4 port Firewire hub to go in the enclosure. Then format the whole array with a striped volume.
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dang...all that is probably more expensive than an entire computer lol. What would you put on it?
 
Praetor

Praetor

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Staff member
Where can you get a terabyte drive retail?
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You cant. The biggest retail drive weighs a 400GB and thats been around for ages now. TB units are a result of NAS/SAN

I was going to find some sort of enclosure and then stack 4 250GB drives together using USB2.0/Firewire to IDE adapter cards and then get a 4 port USB2.0 and a 4 port Firewire hub to go in the enclosure. Then format the whole array with a striped volume.
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You'd get a crapload more performance making use of RAID5 :) (not to mention some redundnancy). USB2 would negate the benifit of the striping by limiting you to a whopping 60MBytes/s
 
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