[access-uk] Re: USB hard drives

  • From: "Peter" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:36:26 -0000

I've got a 250GB Freecom drive from QVCUK and it's great. Mine is also there 
tough model which can be dropped from several meters with no problem. But I've 
never had a problem with an external drive failing anyway.

Peter 


From: ANDY COLLINS 
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:13 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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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