[access-uk] Re: USB hard drives

Ibrahim - This is very helpful, I'll grab the 320GB USB Freecom that I've seen 
for £64, apparently it's about the size of a mobile phone -

Andy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:24 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: USB hard drives


  HI Andy.

  I use freecom drives and they are good value for money generally speaking.  
They are quite fast considering they are USB powered, with rotational speeds of 
up to 5400RPM.  As for Turbo USB, I would ignore that as it is frequently used 
as a marketing term, USB only has so much power available through the port 
alone so you won't necessarily get a faster drive.
    As for formatting, most drives come formatted as FAT32 to maintain backward 
compatibility with older operating systems, but simply reformatting them in XP 
using the format dialog box found in the file menu when the drive is 
highlighted works to format the drive in to the NTFS format.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: ANDY COLLINS 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:13 PM
    Subject: [access-uk] USB hard drives


    Hi all -

    In my research for pen drives, I've also been looking at external USB hard 
drives, and am wondering what people have used successfully? Freecom seem to be 
the cheapest with a 250GB for £55; I take it that these drives require no mains 
power, so what are they like in terms of speed when transfering data? I've seen 
some drives advertised as TurboUSB, does this somehow mean they are faster 
drives?

    From some reviews I have read, is seems that some drives have to be 
formatter to NTFS, is this common, and how is a fat32 drive formatted so as to 
be NTFS?

    As ever, thanks for all help -

    Andy

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