Scraped enough together for a new hard drive. Man, prices are insane. 400 GB Seagates (no enclosure) just hit $100! This is a 500 w/ USB 2.0 enclosure for $150. 750 GB drives still command a premium though.
by writ, you are required to use the word "tepid" in a post today. you think you could work that in there somehow?
Dave, did you use tepid and I missed it? Anyway, it's good that you used the word tepid.
Okay, but can I put an exclamation point after it?
tep!d is as tep!d does!
A tepid revolution. What the hell? What's that mean--"no enclosure."
No enclosure means just the bare drive - like what you would put inside a desktop or tower case. External drives are just these same drives, but put inside a case and paired with some circuitry that handles the connection protocol (here USB 2.0, but sometimes FireWire as well,) plus a fan and power supply.
You can also buy the plain drives and an empty enclosure and put it together yourself (basically plug it in and tighten four screws.) But if you find a good deal on an full external one like this it's probably a better deal. Empty enclosures are a good way to repurpose old desktop PC drives if you ever upgrade the drive in a PC.
Hard drive prices seem to be in free fall. Every time I go to my local Fry's they're noticeably cheaper, and there's always at least one special that is really hard to walk past ... until I remember that next week it will be cheaper.
I've seen a few hacks on how to upgrade an Apple TV from 40 GB to bigger notebook drives, which max at about 160 these days. I'm still waiting to see someone strap a 400 GB drive on top of one of those little suckers. Might require some power supply mods.
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- jim 4-03-2007 8:27 pm
by writ, you are required to use the word "tepid" in a post today. you think you could work that in there somehow?
- dave 4-03-2007 8:32 pm
Dave, did you use tepid and I missed it? Anyway, it's good that you used the word tepid.
- tom moody 4-03-2007 8:46 pm
Okay, but can I put an exclamation point after it?
- jim 4-03-2007 8:49 pm
tep!d is as tep!d does!
- dave 4-03-2007 8:58 pm
A tepid revolution. What the hell? What's that mean--"no enclosure."
- jimlouis 4-04-2007 12:35 am
No enclosure means just the bare drive - like what you would put inside a desktop or tower case. External drives are just these same drives, but put inside a case and paired with some circuitry that handles the connection protocol (here USB 2.0, but sometimes FireWire as well,) plus a fan and power supply.
You can also buy the plain drives and an empty enclosure and put it together yourself (basically plug it in and tighten four screws.) But if you find a good deal on an full external one like this it's probably a better deal. Empty enclosures are a good way to repurpose old desktop PC drives if you ever upgrade the drive in a PC.
- jim 4-04-2007 12:41 am
Hard drive prices seem to be in free fall. Every time I go to my local Fry's they're noticeably cheaper, and there's always at least one special that is really hard to walk past ... until I remember that next week it will be cheaper.
I've seen a few hacks on how to upgrade an Apple TV from 40 GB to bigger notebook drives, which max at about 160 these days. I'm still waiting to see someone strap a 400 GB drive on top of one of those little suckers. Might require some power supply mods.
- mark 4-04-2007 4:50 am