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The one weakpoint of laptops

post #1 of 42
8/15/04 at 6:19pm
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Hard drive capacity sucks. I ordered one of these fine external drives (500 gig). They have a terabyte version as well as triple interface versions (USB - firewire 400 and firewire 800) as well. Now I need to find a firewire 800 card.

http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10024
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post #2 of 42
8/15/04 at 6:21pm
That's a great value for an external, 1GB per $ , and with that speed? Nice find.
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post #3 of 42
8/15/04 at 7:15pm
Lacie makes great stuff. I've been eyeing one of these for a while: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10023
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post #4 of 42
8/15/04 at 11:29pm
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Self-powered? Damn, that is the shiznazz. Shizzle with a side order of dizzle.
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post #5 of 42
8/15/04 at 11:48pm
I like those Network Hubs that are 800gig+ and have dhcp and the new 1gig transfes
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post #6 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:00am
IMO, if you want the ultimate in portablity do what I did.

Pick yourself up a 60G/7200/8mb or even a 80G 2.5" HDD. Simply install it in a case,(avail most anywhere,I prefer the Vaio). These lil' units are USB or Firewire powered.

One wire is all it needs to do it's thing. I posted some pics on a thread here recently.

Granted, there not 500GB, but they do offer the ultimate in portability/size/price.

Hitachi 80G/5400/2.5"x9.5mm HDD-$160
Vaio Alum.2.5"case-$20
The case comes with the appropiate cable.

Sorry for sounding like a salesman here. But I dont think many users have looked into this form of external storage.

In fact they work so well, I install games on them and play directly from the HDD.

Food for thought
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post #7 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:07am
helidude, I haven't seen a portable drive bigger than 60GB that spins at 7200rpm? Have any links?
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post #8 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:15am
i believe seagate is coming out with a 100gb 7200rpm drive, but that may be just a rumor.
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post #9 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:21am
helidude: Yeah, but that's $180 for 80gb of slow storage. The idea was to find faster, higher capacity storage. The Lacie stuff was pretty much around $1 per gigabyte, and quite a bit faster. Very nice, indeed.

Okle: Not a rumor. They're supposed to ship this fall. Seagate Press Release
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post #10 of 42
8/16/04 at 1:04am
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...144-213&DEPA=0

I dunno why it is so neccesary to have a huge lappy hdd when you can get easily comparable performance from an external firewire hdd.
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post #11 of 42
8/16/04 at 1:08am
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With 500 gigs, I can fit about ten pictures of very obese women on the hard drive. Whoo Hooo!!
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post #12 of 42
8/16/04 at 1:13am
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Originally Posted by laughterkillsme
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...144-213&DEPA=0

I dunno why it is so neccesary to have a huge lappy hdd when you can get easily comparable performance from an external firewire hdd.
Probably has alot to do with carrying a seperate 4-5lb brick, in addition to the notebook.
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post #13 of 42
8/16/04 at 1:22am
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Probably has alot to do with carrying a seperate 4-5lb brick, in addition to the notebook.
You shouldn't be checking out that bulge in the front of his pants so closely. Gee Golly, you even know how much it weighs.
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post #14 of 42
8/16/04 at 2:15am
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Originally Posted by DarthBeavis
You shouldn't be checking out that bulge in the front of his pants so closely. Gee Golly, you even know how much it weighs.
Who said I was talking about his?
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post #15 of 42
8/16/04 at 2:23am
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Originally Posted by Sharakkhal
Probably has alot to do with carrying a seperate 4-5lb brick, in addition to the notebook.

I see your point, but if your going to be doing any SERIOUS editing, your probably not oging to be putting it in your lap at the local starbucks .. so what is teh big diffrence if you have to load an external hardrive into yourlaptop bag and carry it to your desk which is probably either at work or home ... but whatever ... personal preferance i suppose?
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post #16 of 42
8/16/04 at 3:32am
I run a WD 160 GB 7200 external and I'dont feel that its and added weight. When I used to have the laptop back pack it was a pain but since I got a 17" messenger style case I just put the drive in the front pocket with it's power, mouse, usb cables, etc.

The one thing I do want is a drive with a higher rotational and and connection that can sustain higher speed access. Don't if firewire 800 is fast enough to sustain beyond traditional TV video. I'd like to use my DV cam as a lens and capture on my 51m at film resoulution 2048 x 16?? at 24 fps. You can technically do that with no compression using premiere but you are limited to the speed in which each frame could written. Even if that's not possible capturing NTSC at 60 or 90 fps would be awsome if you wanted to slow down video with a matrix like effect and not have to worry about loosing the fluidity of frame transistions.
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post #17 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by laughterkillsme
I see your point, but if your going to be doing any SERIOUS editing, your probably not oging to be putting it in your lap at the local starbucks .. so what is teh big diffrence if you have to load an external hardrive into yourlaptop bag and carry it to your desk which is probably either at work or home ... but whatever ... personal preferance i suppose?
I was speaking in general, not my personal preference. Some people can't fathom carrying an 8 lb notebook, so an additional 4 lbs for a hard drive would be out of the question for them.
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post #18 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:49pm
can someone tell me which firewire port we have in the area51-m.. i can see we have the port on the right hand side but no idea what it is (firewire 400/800?)

also, whats the speed difference between our firewire port and the usb2.0
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post #19 of 42
8/16/04 at 12:59pm
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Our laptops have firewire 400. USB 2.0 throughput is about the same as Firewire 400 (Firewire 400 = 400, USB 2.0 = 480). This tells the firewire numbers and numbers for this "enhanced device":
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post #20 of 42
8/16/04 at 1:26pm
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Originally Posted by Sharakkhal
I was speaking in general, not my personal preference. Some people can't fathom carrying an 8 lb notebook, so an additional 4 lbs for a hard drive would be out of the question for them.
an 8 lb. notebook?!?! how can anybody have a problem with that? i will have to take a 10lb one + 3-4 lb power brick in a 1.5lb vanguard case! not including other crap! lol but seriously, thank yourself that you dont have to lug an acer 1710 series...16 pounds if i am not mistaken! of course, it uses mostly desktop parts, so you can stuff your 250gb hd in there to compensate.
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