On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:14:49 -0000, Keith G wrote:


"Jim H" wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:59:39 -0000, Keith G
wrote:


Having accumulated nearly half a terabyte of, er, 'audiovisual'
material
since Christmas, I'm running out of room fast (I need to stack a
certain
amount on the HDD for editing before burning off to DVDR/RW) - at the
risk
of appearing too idle to start the rounds myself, is anyone here 'au
courant' with the best online deals atm?

I'm looking at the best price/size combination at the 200-250 GB break
and
also interested in what's available at bigger capacities (500 Gig?)

TIA

Serveral smaller drives should present better vfm, depending on the
controller.
The 160gig Samsung spinpoints are very fast and quiet.



And well priced at one of my 'usual' online stores - (Komplett, I think)

I got one a few weeks ago, and am pretty happy with it - as quiet as my old
Seagate Baracuda IV (considered the quietest drive around)

The drive runs slightly hot, but still way under the specified max of 55
degrees. If you need a few a slow, quiet fan over them might be a good
idea.

Incidently, are we looking at uncompressed digital video to fill a
terabyte?

No - DVD movies.....

About 200 of them then!

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Jim H jh
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