I've got a new hard drive!

[Polarbert]

I don't know whether anybody will be interested in this or not, but thought that I would post as it may help someone who is looking for a new external hard drive.


Ordered a Freecom 160gb usb external hard drive on Friday, £61 + £6 delivery. I was expecting it to be cheap and nasty but do the job since it had significantly more memory than the similar priced drives. It arrived this morning. (Bought via www.dabs.com) Very impressed with the speed of the delivery from them.

I got the drive out and was instantly impressed with how heavy it was, it felt like a quality piece of kit. It looks quite neat as well. It comes with all the required leads, unlike some of the HDDs I was looking at. It has a nice aluminium case, and a black plastic front, with a 160gb illuminated in blue, that flashes when the drive is being read.

It comes with 153gb of space and So far its been fantastic.


For anyone who is looking for more space I would definately recommend this to them.

Here are a few pics:




Apologies if I waste anyones time.

[Polarbert]

Oops. Sorry about the pics, there from a camera phone.

[nick heppinstall]

Polarbert said:

I don't know whether anybody will be interested in this or not, but thought that I would post as it may help someone who is looking for a new external hard drive.


Ordered a Freecom 160gb usb external hard drive on Friday, £61 + £6 delivery. I was expecting it to be cheap and nasty but do the job since it had significantly more memory than the similar priced drives. It arrived this morning. (Bought via www.dabs.com) Very impressed with the speed of the delivery from them.

I got the drive out and was instantly impressed with how heavy it was, it felt like a quality piece of kit. It looks quite neat as well. It comes with all the required leads, unlike some of the HDDs I was looking at. It has a nice aluminium case, and a black plastic front, with a 160gb illuminated in blue, that flashes when the drive is being read.

It comes with 153gb of space and So far its been fantastic.


For anyone who is looking for more space I would definately recommend this to them.


Apologies if I waste anyones time.

Ouch !!! Try re-sizing your pics I'll need a 3foot screen to view 'em !!

[Polarbert]

nick heppinstall said:

Polarbert said:

I don't know whether anybody will be interested in this or not, but thought that I would post as it may help someone who is looking for a new external hard drive.


Ordered a Freecom 160gb usb external hard drive on Friday, £61 + £6 delivery. I was expecting it to be cheap and nasty but do the job since it had significantly more memory than the similar priced drives. It arrived this morning. (Bought via www.dabs.com) Very impressed with the speed of the delivery from them.

I got the drive out and was instantly impressed with how heavy it was, it felt like a quality piece of kit. It looks quite neat as well. It comes with all the required leads, unlike some of the HDDs I was looking at. It has a nice aluminium case, and a black plastic front, with a 160gb illuminated in blue, that flashes when the drive is being read.

It comes with 153gb of space and So far its been fantastic.


For anyone who is looking for more space I would definately recommend this to them.


Apologies if I waste anyones time.

Ouch !!! Try re-sizing your pics I'll need a 3foot screen to view 'em !!

I thought PH autoresized?

[puggit]

Polarbert said:

it had significantly more memory than the similar priced drives.

I think you mean disk space

[Podie]

puggit said:

Polarbert said:

it had significantly more memory than the similar priced drives.

I think you mean disk space

awaits some excuse about cache

[Ribol]

There is no mention of it having an external power supply on the Dabs site, is that correct, USB supply only?

[Polarbert]

Ribol said:

There is no mention of it having an external power supply on the Dabs site, is that correct, USB supply only?

No it has an external power supply included as well. Its very quite as well. And I mean silent. I think if you read the review on it or specificiation, some guy said that everything was included, thats how I found out anyway.

[tuffer]

What happened to the other 7gb?

[PJR]

tuffer said:

What happened to the other 7gb?

Formatting losses.. You will get that on absolutely any HD. The larger the drive, the bigger the loss.

[scorp]

PJR said:

tuffer said:

What happened to the other 7gb?

Formatting losses.. You will get that on absolutely any HD. The larger the drive, the bigger the loss.

It's space reserved by the file system to store things like file attributes (directory structures) and file allocation (FAT tables, etc).

Edited by scorp on Tuesday 3rd October 14:59

[annodomini2]

scorp said:

PJR said:

tuffer said:

What happened to the other 7gb?

Formatting losses.. You will get that on absolutely any HD. The larger the drive, the bigger the loss.

It's space reserved by the file system to store things like file attributes (directory structures) and file allocation (FAT tables, etc).

Edited by scorp on Tuesday 3rd October 14:59

Also most HDD are quoted as 1,000,000,000 Bytes to a GB, whereas 99% of file systems format to 1,073,741,824 Bytes per GB.

[antonyj]

Second vote for the freecom.
I use a NAT freecom HDD , via my wireless router.
Transfer can be a bit slow over the wireless but it can be accessed from all the PC's in the house.

[bobthemonkey]

got the 250gb model - very good, except the led stopped flashing soon after i bought it - the drive is fine so i couldn't be bothered with changing it.

[Polarbert]

bobthemonkey said:

got the 250gb model - very good, except the led stopped flashing soon after i bought it - the drive is fine so i couldn't be bothered with changing it.

Shit, just found that, its only an extra tenner for another 90gb. Ah well. I'm sure 160gb will keep me going for a while.

[Platinum]

I have the 250gb one, but it is not as snazzy as yours.

[pjskel]

Bought 3 320GB Toshiba My Books the other day - look pretty snazzy.