external hard drive.

patmac

Hi I am thinking of purchasing this, does anyone know if it is any good or any alternatives?
Thanks
http://www.eason.ie/look/5390800097801/So-Speaky-1Tb-Multimedia-Hdmi-Hard-Drive

knird evol

Heres iomega one for 66 euro. 7200rpm. 1tb. 3.5

mordeith

Here is a customer review of one

patmac

knird evol wrote: »

Heres iomega one for 66 euro. 7200rpm. 1tb. 3.5

Not worth the hassle seemingly
http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/iomega-prestige-desktop-hard/4852-3190_7-33087931.html?tag=contentMain;userRate

mordeith

Better off getting a WD-TV and an portable external HD in my opinion

yoyo

patmac wrote: »

Not worth the hassle seemingly
http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/iomega-prestige-desktop-hard/4852-3190_7-33087931.html?tag=contentMain;userRate

I have a iomega 1TB desktop drive, its a Western Digital Caviar hard drive under the hood and never had an issue with it, have it longer than a year! It is never really transported around though I just leave it plugged in all the time

Nick

johnnyrotten

I got one of these from Easons last January . No problems with it

shanejunkin

yoyo wrote: »

I have a iomega 1TB desktop drive, its a Western Digital Caviar hard drive under the hood and never had an issue with it, have it longer than a year! It is never really transported around though I just leave it plugged in all the time

Nick

Nick, I have just bought a Iomega 2TB Desktop HD but I am having trouble with it. When I connected it, it installed the drivers as you would expect, and reported no issue. However, when I open "Computer" the Hard Drive does not appear, I can't access it.

I have tried rebooting, turing the Hard Drive on and off, all to no avail. I have even went into Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Device Manager\Disk Drives and I can see the Hard Drive there. On selecting it there it reports that it is working properly!

Yet I can't access it from my computer? Even when I turn off the Hard Drive it dissapears from the Device Manager page so my laptop is "seeing" it, but not completely?

Can you please help, my head is wrecked!!

Regards,

Shanejunkin

akamossie

1.Click Start - Control Panel - Administrative Tools (if you can’t see administrative tools please change to classic view on the left hand side of the screen) - Computer Management - Disk Management.



2.Disk management will split the screen into a top half and a bottom half, the bottom half will display all attached drives, such as your "C" drive, "DVD" drive etc, also displayed should be the Buffalo drive which may show up as an "Unknown" drive.

3.Right click on this device and select assign a drive letter and assign a new drive letter for this device. (If you are not given this option or it is grayed out then go to step 4)

Please be aware that steps 4 and 5 will result in the drive being completely wiped of all data.

4.Right click on this drive and select delete partition, this can take up to 30 seconds to complete. Once this has been done, right click the drive again and select create new partition and then select primary as the partition type when requested.

There is no need to change any of the other settings so just keep clicking next until you reach the end of the wizard, the drive will then format and create a new and fully functioning NTFS partition, this can take a bit of time to fully format.



Once the above process has been completed, the drive should again be fully functional and listed as a drive in "My Computer"

(If you are not given this option or it is grayed out then go to step 5)


5.Right click on this drive and select format and follow the steps.

net4hack

patmac wrote: »

Hi I am thinking of purchasing this, does anyone know if it is any good or any alternatives?
Thanks
http://www.eason.ie/look/5390800097801/So-Speaky-1Tb-Multimedia-Hdmi-Hard-Drive

If you havent already bought something you could consider this LAcie 2 TB NAS with Gigabit Ethernet and High Speed USB from DABS for 159Euro.

http://www.dabs.ie/products/lacie-2tb-lacie-network-space-2-ethernet-hi-speed-usb-6LQ1.html?refs=52910000

mordeith

net4hack wrote: »

If you havent already bought something you could consider this LAcie 2 TB NAS with Gigabit Ethernet and High Speed USB from DABS for 159Euro.

http://www.dabs.ie/products/lacie-2tb-lacie-network-space-2-ethernet-hi-speed-usb-6LQ1.html?refs=52910000

I don't think that actually plays multimedia files though.