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

"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?)

Well since your application is just storage, and you don't need ultra-
high-speed access, you can put up with 5400RPM, so how about 300GB for
200 quid? 300GB is the largest single hard drive I'm aware of at the
moment. or you can get 250GB (7200RPM) for 162. (All inc. VAT.)

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Produ...ry=Hard+Drives



Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

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.

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

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org

Hi Keith,

In message , Keith G
writes

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 haven't checked since 'January sales fever' set in (or maybe it
didn't) but in November I bought a bunch of 160GB drives of various
flavours from ebuyer - they were doing the best prices I could find at
the time. Worth a look... www.ebuyer.com

Caveat - they are a 'pile it high, sell it cheap' merchant, so don't
expect retail packaging, bundled software etc. However, they have been
reliable IME.

--
Regards,
Glenn Booth

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118



"Keith G" wrote in message
...

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

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

4 250GB drives in a small, hot box.


Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

"Jim H" wrote in message
news
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)



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



No - DVD movies.....

"Fleetie" wrote in message
...
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

4 250GB drives in a small, hot box.


Interesting observation, but this gadget is way over my budget anyway. It
does raise the interesting possibility of a USB/Firewire 'standalone' mass
storage bank. (Which, in turn, raises the spectre of a gadget failing with a
TB's worth of blood, sweat and toil going doon the toobs.......)

Thanks to all who responded here - the links and suggestions are most
helpful. Apparently I've got to check that the motherboards on both/either
of my machines (both running XP) will actually 'see' 200-250 Gig disks and
not report them as having smaller capacities.....??

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


"Jim H" wrote in message
news
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!

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org

4 250GB drives in a small, hot box.


Interesting observation, but this gadget is way over my budget anyway. It
does raise the interesting possibility of a USB/Firewire 'standalone' mass
storage bank. (Which, in turn, raises the spectre of a gadget failing with
a
TB's worth of blood, sweat and toil going doon the toobs.......)

Thanks to all who responded here - the links and suggestions are most
helpful. Apparently I've got to check that the motherboards on both/either
of my machines (both running XP) will actually 'see' 200-250 Gig disks and
not report them as having smaller capacities.....??

Over recent years my HD capacity has increased to a couple TB, buying
another disc every couple of months.

I've found cheap prices at Micro Direct (www.microdirect.co.uk) - a little
over 50p/GB for Maxtor 7200rpm with 8GB cache at 160GB/disc, and they're
local to me which is handy. I know it's easier to use larger discs, but if
you can keep the drives smaller and well organised, if you experience a
failure, you will find less material is lost and you know roughly what you
have to reaquire.

I haven't bothered with a custom box for it all (although I am thinking
about it) as I've found networked PCs quite easy to arrange and browse. A
Lian-Li P60 case, for instance, will hold up to 12 hard discs with ease and
yet is a normal-sized PC case. It looks good, has effecient and quiet
cooling and easier than many standard PC cases when adding/removing drives.
It's easy to add additional IDE channels with £20 PCI cards.

As for large disc support, go to www.maxtor.com and look for the "Enable
Large Disc Support Utility" (of something like that). It's a simple
executable which updates the Windows registry to recognise drives over
127GB - most of the solutions I found on Google when I first had this
problem were long and unneccessary - this is simple and works.

Then set up an FTP server and give me access!

Piece of pie!

(Me like pie).