I dont know if anyone is interested, but Ebuyer are doing Hitachi 1TB external drives for £49.99, with free delivery.
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I dont know if anyone is interested, but Ebuyer are doing Hitachi 1TB external drives for £49.99, with free delivery.
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Hitatchi make very reliable hard drives in my experience; I have had two in my PC which are now more than two years old and have worked faultlessly.
I also have to two 500GB drives connected to my laptop for storing my reference and play files.
I would suggest if anyone plans to use these drives for audio they consider using a galvanic isolator on the USB lead from drive to Dac if their Dac does not have any form of noise suppression or isolation because they are quite noisy.
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I got one of these the other day. A WD 2TB drive. It's yet to arrive but looks like it's a sensible piece of kit. Not over-designed.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/204506
I'm consolidating 8 250Gb drives into 1 2TB drive to reduce the number of sockets required... the old 250Gb devices will be kept as a static backup.
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A colleague bought a Hitachi hard drive from Tesco's recently for around the £50 mark. Same 1TB size but in a different case. He uses it for backing up files and has had no problems with it so far but he did say the fan is quite noisey if your thinking of using one in a music set up. Also his has no seperate power switch so if his computer is on then so is the hard drive and fan. Might be worth checking if this new model is the same.
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How are you getting on with the WD Nick? Is it as silent as suggested? I'm looking for a 1TB version for pure audio file storage, to replace a 250GB Toshiba which is now nearly full - the WD one looks to be a good option, but any other suggestions from anyone gratefully received.Originally Posted by Beechwoods
I got one of these the other day. A WD 2TB drive. It's yet to arrive but looks like it's a sensible piece of kit. Not over-designed.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/204506
I'm consolidating 8 250Gb drives into 1 2TB drive to reduce the number of sockets required... the old 250Gb devices will be kept as a static backup.
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That is the one I am using. 2TB for £99 from play.com. almost totally silent and runs cool too. RecommendedI got one of these the other day. A WD 2TB drive. It's yet to arrive but looks like it's a sensible piece of kit. Not over-designed.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/204506
I'm consolidating 8 250Gb drives into 1 2TB drive to reduce the number of sockets required... the old 250Gb devices will be kept as a static backup.
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That's great - thanks for the endorsement Steve. Just deciding whether to go for a bigger one actually, to save having to go through this again in a couple of years!
Alex
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Aren’t there reliabilty problems with the larger capacity remote hard drives?
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Doesn't seem to be too much of an issue reading through the Amazon reviews, John, but be interested to hear from anyone who has had problems.
Alex
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Not heard much about that, but I do have another 2Tb on which is a back-up, just in case! (this one is currently in the PC but will be removed and put into storage)
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