External Desktop Hard Drive advice
Posted 29/07/2009 - 13:54
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Gigabit Ethernet is essential (IMHO) if you go down this path.
I'm a NAS fan, but found that having Gigabit isn't necessarily faster than regular 100-base-TX Have a Freecom NAS Pro drive that has GB support - but the main bottleneck is the performance of the CPU in it Gigabit Ethernet is essential (IMHO) if you go down this path.
If you want real speed on a NAS device then you'll have to pay real money
Matt
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Posted 29/07/2009 - 15:09
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Just a comment....
When you buy a HDD, buy two matching ones. So, if one fails then at least you have the chance to rectify the situation before its twin expires....
I have WD externals, so far so good....K20D acquisition might force acquisition of new ones soon
When you buy a HDD, buy two matching ones. So, if one fails then at least you have the chance to rectify the situation before its twin expires....
I have WD externals, so far so good....K20D acquisition might force acquisition of new ones soon
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F50 1.7. SMC-FAs 24, 35, 50 1.4, 85, 135. HD-FA15-30, DFA24-70, D-FA*70-200. The SMC-FA Limited Trinity.
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Some Mamiya and some Nikon, and a Canon T70.
Posted 29/07/2009 - 17:45
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Seagate Barracuda drives are very good but they had an issue with a firmware release which caused some drives to appear to lose their format and hence their data. The situation is recoverable however. refer to Seagate web site for info.
Nope unfortunatly the ones I had dealings with went wwwurrrrr BANG! Not a easy recovery process unfortunatly.... Nevermind Thats what DVD's are for
Seagate Barracuda drives are very good but they had an issue with a firmware release which caused some drives to appear to lose their format and hence their data. The situation is recoverable however. refer to Seagate web site for info.
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Posted 29/07/2009 - 19:07
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MattMatic wrote:
If you want real speed on a NAS device then you'll have to pay real money
Matt
I have a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, a very entry level model. Using a gigabit switch to allow full speed between main PC and NAS (router and other PCs on network are only 100Mbit) tripled my NAS speed from about 9MB/sec to 26MB/sec (read) and 28MB (write). I then put in a NIC that supported jumbo frames and it dropped my read speed to 23MB/sec but boosted the write speed to 40MB/sec
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Gigabit Ethernet is essential (IMHO) if you go down this path.
I'm a NAS fan, but found that having Gigabit isn't necessarily faster than regular 100-base-TX Have a Freecom NAS Pro drive that has GB support - but the main bottleneck is the performance of the CPU in it Gigabit Ethernet is essential (IMHO) if you go down this path.
If you want real speed on a NAS device then you'll have to pay real money
Matt
Posted 29/07/2009 - 19:12
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Thanks for the info yelvertoft - worth knowing
Matt
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Posted 29/07/2009 - 19:28
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I just bought a 500GB LG external HDD for £75 since I am travelling for a week. It's hardly bigger than an iPod classic. Brilliant!
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I switched to NAS earlier this year, bit of a learning curve integrating it into Vista, but glad I did it now. Peace of mind and ease of putting bigger drives in when I eventually run out of room make it worthwhile.