I bought a USB drive caddy recently and thought I'd use it to swap all my loose drives around, collating data from each and then formatting them and putting them in storage
That worked great
So, being a greedy bastard I decided that I could do with more storage and thought 320GB for £50 plus postage and the usual polystyrene was a good deal
Bought the drive, got it delivered two days later and exchanged a 4GB for a brand spanking Seagate 320GB
It took me a little while to work out how to format the pesky thing as I don't have a floppy disk drive, but once I worked out how to do it I eagerly waited for the format process to finish
Nigh on two hours later I was triumphant!
First thing that pissed me off is that I had lost 22GB. Bugger!!
Next thing I noticed how quiet it was ... bonus!!!
I am now in the process of transferring data from my main drive to my new drive
I have to say that after using this for over a month now it is a remarkable piece of kit
ReplyDeleteReturning to the noise issue though, with the Seagate 320GB resident it vibrates like a bastard and could be construed as noisy. With the other 4GB driv in there was no issue with vibration
The only thing that did/does wind me up is the USB lead - it has a bright blue LED in it which comes on when the unit is powered up, when there is data being sent over the USB bus it flashes like buggery
I suppose if my daughter can sleep through both the light and the noise I guess I can get used to it
UPDATE
ReplyDeleteI keep getting these delayed write failure messages and have lost a shed load of data, haven't got a clue how to cure the error messages and am in the process of recovering any data I can
So far ... so good!
6 yeats ago! gigabytes were all the rage, now we're talking about terrabytes
ReplyDelete6 yeats ago! gigabytes were all the rage, now we're talking about terrabytes
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