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17-11-2007, 11:23 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Video Professional, Mostly Melbourne, but work all over Australia
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Originally Posted by Brains
My recommended drive enclosures are:
- MacPower IceCube2
- Newmotion Odyssey
- Vantec Nextar
- Sandisk Hardbox
- Newer Technology MicroStak
Brains
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good write up! thanks for the heads up! |
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17-11-2007, 11:58 AM
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Location: Brisbane
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Just bought a 500GIG Lacie Porsche USB 2 on ebay for $179.00 new.
Paul
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/LaCie-500GB-E...QQcmdZViewItem |
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19-11-2007, 05:59 AM
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Location: QLD
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I bought another external HD-a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB at Officeworks for $349.
I chose the Seagate as my Mac and PC's all use a Seagate drive in them-in recent years I find them to quite reliable.
It has USB 2.0 and eSata interfaces.
Some versioms may come with a FW inteface module that can be used in place of the USB/eSata module.
What chipset does it use?
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Camera-Canon PowerShot A580
Last edited by aafuss; 19-11-2007 at 06:09 AM.
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19-11-2007, 06:25 AM
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Location: Canberra
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Originally Posted by lonestriker
Quick question:
Is the actual hard drive in the Western Digital MyBook Premium 500GB External HD of the Caviar variety?
I'm tossing up between one of these for $239 (at Officeworks) or a separate drive and enclosure. (I can buy a Western Digital Caviar 500GB HD for $134.95 across the road from Officeworks.)
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Don't know if you're still after an answer to this, but I just bought a WD MyBook Premium 500GB and it reports its model as WD 5000AAJS. Which appears to be a Caviar SE. |
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19-11-2007, 01:32 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Does anyone know of an enclosure that:
- supports a 3.5" SATA drive
- has an internal power supply
- has an aluminium or white case?
Cheers 
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19-11-2007, 02:01 PM
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Still stuck in 1984
Group: Regulars
Location: Inside your head
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Will this do you:
USB, FireWire with Oxfords (1xFW400, 2xFW800), internal PSU, can run one or two chambers, choice of RAID or JBOD. Would love to know of an Aussie distributor.
B.
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Last edited by Brains; 19-11-2007 at 02:04 PM.
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19-11-2007, 02:07 PM
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Location: Sydney
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Don't need a RAID box...but found these on the same site that look great and also have built-in PS's:
thx for the link...now just have to find one of these in Australia
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"O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!" - William Shakespeare
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19-11-2007, 02:15 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brains
Will this do you:
USB, FireWire with Oxfords (1xFW400, 2xFW800), internal PSU, can run one or two chambers, choice of RAID or JBOD. Would love to know of an Aussie distributor.
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Hey Brains,
Have a look @ Silicon Memory who are based in Chatswood.
I got a Sohotank 3620 from them (via a dealer) and love it.
Highly recommended.
Buy the drives wherever you can get 'em cheap too!
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Just browsing thanks
...and in closing...
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20-11-2007, 07:36 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Originally Posted by aafuss
What chipset does it use?
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You're asking this after you bought the drive? 
Last edited by El Guardo; 20-11-2007 at 07:39 PM.
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20-11-2007, 07:48 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - for portable external enclosures, nothing beats the Clearlight.
PM me if interested...
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20-11-2007, 07:51 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Near Norwood, Adelaide
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Hey Brains. I saw a drive case that looked very much like that at Macalert. May well be the same one.
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20-11-2007, 08:08 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally Posted by BLINDER
Hey Brains,
Have a look @ Silicon Memory who are based in Chatswood.
I got a Sohotank 3620 from them (via a dealer) and love it.
Highly recommended.
Buy the drives wherever you can get 'em cheap too! |
Yeppers - the SOHOTANKs are fan-fucking-tastic, aand sport the ability to hold twin 1 Terabyte SATA Drives with either a triple interface (USB 2.0 / FW 400 / FW 800 / Hardware RAID 0 (striped)
JBOD / Oxford 924DSB - or - twin eSATA Ports / JBOD - and appear as such:
with other models in the SOHOTANK series having four and five hot-swap drive trays.
PM if interwested...
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20-11-2007, 09:57 PM
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Group: Regulars
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[quote=aafuss;398919]I bought another external HD-a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB at Officeworks for $349.]
does that have firewire 400/800/ usb/ esata?
can't seem to find it on their website for that price. |
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21-11-2007, 07:29 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: QLD
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The FreeAgent I bought came with a USB & eSATA interface. There is a version that has a Firewire module.
The price was part of a sale that expired on Sunday.
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MP3:Creative ZEN Stone, MuVo N200. Sony NWZ-A815,NWD-B103F,NW-E105,NW-S705F,NW-S203F, Sansa E260, Samsung YP-S2,Samsung YP-T10,Philips SA3115
Camera-Canon PowerShot A580
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22-11-2007, 12:22 PM
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thanks!
bugger!
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