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22-10-2007, 12:49 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Perth
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Portable hard drive recommendations
I'm after recommendations for a small (in physical size) portable hard drive. Are the usb flash drives reliable? It will be used for working on (using CS2 and CS3) and moving files from mac to pc to mac.
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22-10-2007, 12:54 PM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Flash drives are very reliable for shuffling data around, but not so good for actually working off (i.e: don't open the file off the flash drive and edit it there, copy it to your computer, edit, then copy back on).
How much size do you need? 16GB USB flash drives are around $200.
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22-10-2007, 01:30 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Why not just buy a small USB2 bus powered hard drive?
Cases are about $10 and you just throw in whatever notebook drive you like.
I've got one that goes everywhere with me and performs flawlessly.
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22-10-2007, 02:44 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Clearlight 2.5" Pocket Drives.
PM sent with further information.
Cheers,
cw
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22-10-2007, 02:55 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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How much are they CW?
Looks like it's FW bus powered too!?
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22-10-2007, 03:24 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Blinder,
Yep - they sure are bus powered.
I'm a retailer.
Happy to send you a PM if you like.
Cheers,
cw
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22-10-2007, 04:44 PM
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Group: Regulars
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can u send me a PM?
are these SATA or PATA?
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22-10-2007, 04:56 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Corowa NSW Heart of the mighty Murray!
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Me too
Quote:
Originally Posted by ClockWork
Blinder,
Yep - they sure are bus powered.
I'm a retailer.
Happy to send you a PM if you like.
Cheers,
cw
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I'd appreciate a heads-up on this item too please. |
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22-10-2007, 05:14 PM
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Group: Regulars
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ClockWork
Blinder,
Yep - they sure are bus powered.
I'm a retailer.
Happy to send you a PM if you like.
Cheers,
cw
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Include me on the list please.
CF |
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02-09-2008, 11:28 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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bumpity bump!
I'm looking at getting a Western Digital Passport .
Do you guys know of any better ultra slim portable HDs that work well with macs (macbook in particular). Do these type of drives require the Oxford Chipset as well or is it not necessary?
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02-09-2008, 11:32 AM
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I love
Group: Regulars
Location: Canberra
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ClockWork, are you still the reseller of the Clearlight drives?
I'd appreciate a PM with more info/prices if you are.
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02-09-2008, 11:38 AM
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Web Developer http://www.petermount.com
Group: Regulars
Location: On the other side and the previous side looks decidedly beige
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NathR32
ClockWork, are you still the reseller of the Clearlight drives?
I'd appreciate a PM with more info/prices if you are.
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I'd be interested in a PM with that as well for interest's sake.
Thanks
Last edited by Peter Mount; 02-09-2008 at 03:26 PM.
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02-09-2008, 11:47 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne Metro
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Mount
I'd be interested in a PM with that that as well for interest's sake.
Thanks
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me too 
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02-09-2008, 03:18 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Northern Beaches , Sydney
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en.elle , the better external hard drives with firewire come with the Oxford chipset in them. USB2.0 drives are OK and are a bit less obviously, but given the amount of threads here about these drives failing , I would tend to steer clear of them and use firewire cases instead.
Stewie
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02-09-2008, 10:21 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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I just bought my gf a WD Passport Essential today for $179. It is white in colour which matches her DS.
320GB.
Which was the biggest size available (2.5" drives in WD Passport range). I think it was quite the bargain for $179.
I'm happy with it and it works great for Time Machine. To think she wasn't backing up at all for 9 months... MacBook Air user there. Myself I am using a Seagate FreeAgent Go (160GB) purchased off the forums but if I was buying one for myself tomorrow, I'd get the same WD Passport 320GB (in black) for the same price. Excellent drives in my opinion. Good looking too! 
Website about the drive:
My Passport Essential 320 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drives ( WDME3200 ) |
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