| Author | Message | ||
     Monster© Supporter Username: Monster  Post Number: 4717 Registered: 7-2002  |
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4799749 SERIAL ATA/300 INTERFACE 7200 RPM 16MB BUFFER RETAIL BOXED HARD DRIVE (INSTALLATION KIT INCLUDED) 5 YEAR WARRANTY REGULAR PRICE:$209.99 | ||
| Case Citizen Username: Case Post Number: 1908 Registered: 2-2005 |
Yeah, I saw this - thanks to your postings I check the site weekly - and there's a 300GB PATA drive for $79. Amazing, isn't it? | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4730 Registered: 7-2002 |
but the elusive 750 has yet to come out from its hiding spot.... | ||
| Case Citizen Username: Case Post Number: 1909 Registered: 2-2005 |
Soon enough. If it gets to a reasonable price point by January I'll be very very satisfied. | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 10667 Registered: 4-1997  |
Monster, remind me again what I need to do to shove one of these puppies into my mirror-doored G4. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4735 Registered: 7-2002 |
you need to get a controller card for it. If you get a SATA drive make sure to get a SATA controller card (make sure it has an internal connection and is not just for external drives) | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15511 Registered: 1-2003  |
Case, I'll bet you that your extreme satisfaction over your super duper hard disk will wane after six months. The problem is that our storage needs keep up with the capacities.  | ||
| Case Citizen Username: Case Post Number: 1911 Registered: 2-2005 |
Yeah, but it is always nice to be able to consolidate. I still remember my excitement when I bought a very expensive 20MB hard drive for my 8088 machine. Do you realize how many 5.25" floppy discs you can store in twenty MILLION bytes? I think that when we get to petabyte storage I am going to have to reevaluate my needs. | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15518 Registered: 1-2003 |
I guess 1 terabyte disks are around the corner. Then how many years before pedabyte disks? Hey, speaking of this stuff, is there a decent quality, decent price USB RAID system? I think that as our home networks become sophisticated and UPS's become common, so should RAID boxes. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4741 Registered: 7-2002 |
http://www.cooldrives.com/qudrusb20rad.html | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15520 Registered: 1-2003 |
Wow, $200! I looked a few months ago, and if I remember right, the best I saw was $1500. Now we're talking! | ||
| flugermongers Citizen Username: Flugermongers Post Number: 752 Registered: 5-2001  |
So, any terabyte drives yet? I want an external drive that'll work on both a mac and PC, continuously... so, just plug 'n' play, no formatting... I guess. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4826 Registered: 7-2002 |
just format it intitially as fat32 and everyone can use it. You could always pick up one of those NAS drives I posted about the other day, I believe you can order from Costco online even if you are not a member, I think it just costs a wee bit more. I haven't hooked mine up yet, but you should be able to have both NTFS and HFS+ drives available through it. For instance, format the internal drive as NTFS, and then one of the external drives attached to it as HFS+. If you want all drives to be read/write accesible by each OS then use fat32, unless your Windows machine is running an app such as MacDrive which will allow it to read/write to HFS+ volumes. Rumour has it that Leopard will have the ability to read/write to NTFS. |
