500Gb USB2.0 Seagate 500gb External HDD

hamster

I ordered the external 500Gb USB2 HDD (Seagate FreeAgent) from Komplett last week. I came home and installed it in a couple of seconds. Welll....

1. It's very very quiet!
2. 500Gb is really huge. 17 hours later and I only got 90Gb of Mame,Dos,Amiga,ST, C64 Retro stuff on it.
3. About 60Gb of Music
4. Next week about 200Gb of video.
5. 50Gb of the Demoscene.
6. I really give this a thumbs as it gives my internal 160Gb drive a break... and I can defrag that without it take a week!

What do you guys typically fill these with??? :eek:

Peak read rate is 32Mb/s - actually the same as my flash Corsair 8Gb flash key - figuring now that this is the usb2 speed limit. The internal in comparison is 80Mb/s read rate. (HD Tach 3.0x readings)

Kintarō Hattori

Yeah they are pretty funky. I bought one when I sold my PC and bought a laptop. I still have tons of space on it.

At the moment:

Pictures: 15GB
Video: 211GB
Downloads: 18GB
Music: 89GB

mathie

I've a Western Digital 250 external drive.

Music 95GB (also backed up to DVDs)
Video 110GB (just the non-backed up stuff)

I'm debatting buying another.

If I back up all my video to disc how long will the discs last?
Forever?

M

randombar

Had a 250 gig Western,

75 gig - PSP Games
70 gig - Music
20 gig - Videos

Thing is what is the largest size HD that doesnt need a power supply?

sunny2004

I have 2 of them full ! it allows me to drop one off when I and transferring stuff or swapping different stuff ! real handy

hamster

I'm seeing that Tom's Hardware site is reviewing 1-2Tb models. The 2Tb models are actually 2 1Tb drives treated as RAID-1. The top end cost 800 dollars. Ouch...but great to see the horizon expand that bit more.

Ruu_Old

I have a couple of the Western Digital MyBook ones, no complaints.