Hi Jackie -I've got a 320GB Mains powered Seagate that has been great, but wanted a USB drive for my Asus [yes, I'm going for the Asus 901]
How much was your Western Digital? I've got my eyes on a Freecom 320GB for £65.99 -
Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 9:16 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: USB hard drives
Hi AndyI bought a 320GB Western Digital USB powered drive at the same time as my Samsung NC10. It's a really nice little drive to be honest, and useful to carry around without added power supplies. My other external drives are a Maxter 750GB, and a Packard-Bell 400GB which have their own mains supplies. Touch wood, I haven't encountered any problems with any of them.Jackie Cairns Braille Support Adviser Email: jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sight and Sound Technology Welton House North Wing Summerhouse Road Moulton Park Northampton NN3 6WD Tel: 01604 798024 Fax: 01604 798090 Web: www.sightandsound.co.uk -----Original Message-----From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINSSent: 04 January 2009 21:07 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: USB hard drivesJames, these are large drives, I'm guessing they require mains power? I want to go the USB power route -Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Peter" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 8:49 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: USB hard drivesI have a Maxtor 750 GB OneTouch II drive, and a Western Digital 1 TB drive,both are fantastic, and have never had any problems. Sadly, Maxtor have gone down hill lately, and now their drives, to put it simply, suck. -----Original Message----- From: Peter <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, January 04, 2009 08:36:26 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: USB hard drives 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 harddrives, 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? 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