External Hard drive suggestions.

eSATA and SATA are exactly the same FYI.
One's outside, ones inside, both the same stuff.

TBh, that caddy thing's not a bad idea for backing up
 
This is what you want... so easy:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-071-_-Product
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ya know. i have a version of that docky thing. i bought the one from newertech.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer Technology/FWU2ES2HDK/
it works GREAT! and has relieved my desk (and UPS) of a ton of cables...

but my fear is in moving around and storing the naked drive modules without either wearing out the connectors (which werent designed for frequent connect/disconnect) or damaging the exposed circuitry.
 
You used to be able to buy a rubber jacket that would fit over the hard drive so you can handle them better, not too sure where to buy them from though,
 
i would steer clear of anything from LaCie. i owned two of their products and BOTH corrupted my data on contact.
 
You used to be able to buy a rubber jacket that would fit over the hard drive so you can handle them better, not too sure where to buy them from though,
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i dont know that a rubber jacket would make much difference. these modules arent designed to live outside a box. dust, collision, moisture... all things that happen OUTSIDE a drive enclosure.

and their connectors surely werent designed for frequent swapping. not to say that they wont hold up with proper care. i just wonder if its wise to suggest this docky thing as a major component of a workflow...
 
I can't tell if it requires a tray or caddy for each additional harddrive for this device. I know for sure there're other trayless system that works the same way. Just slam in a 3.5" hdd and it's there.
 
wgzn said:
ya know. i have a version of that docky thing. i bought the one from newertech.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer Technology/FWU2ES2HDK/
it works GREAT! and has relieved my desk (and UPS) of a ton of cables...

but my fear is in moving around and storing the naked drive modules without either wearing out the connectors (which werent designed for frequent connect/disconnect) or damaging the exposed circuitry.
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I don't worry about wear and tear. I have 5 drives in rotation, and swap them all the time, and only power it on when I need to access the drive. It's great for backups/archiving. e-Sata is wicked fast. You just need to handle the drives with care and there probably won't be a problem. YMMV. I use mine for backup of files, and use internal drives for the rendering work. I have not found a more economical solution than this. I used to use external USB drives and went through the whole drive trays with swappable drives as well. IMO this is the best of both worlds.

just my 2 cents.

Terry
 
I agreed with Terry. I used to carry many different enclosures with different AC adapters. That was very annoying. These docks works very well for me. Here's how I keep my spare drives.

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lol, it looks like a letter sorter. That's pretty awesome! I would be lost without a labeling system like that.
 
Taky said:
I agreed with Terry. I used to carry many different enclosures with different AC adapters. That was very annoying. These docks works very well for me. Here's how I keep my spare drives.

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That is a great idea on how to keep your drives. I would go 1 step further and put some padding at the bottom. Maybe neoprene or something. Awesome. I will have to go look for something like that.

Terry
 
GLYPH hands down.

GLYPH GT 062E
Two Disks (Raid 0 or 1)
- Raid 0: Both drives working together distributing info across both disks evenly allowing exceptional speed for video editing work. Connects Fire wire 800 so you than later can "daisy-chain" more of those hard drives and only using a single input into the computer.

-Raid 1: Whatever you save on the "harddrive" is sent to one of the disks and automatically mirrors the information on the other disks. This creates an immediate backup of what you save in case one disk fails. The read/write speed is slower than Raid 0, has half the available space of Raid 0
[*] and is only a temporary "back-up".


[*] Assuming you have a 1TB harddrive; Raid 0 allows storage of up to 1TB fresh data using both disks in sync -- while Raid 1 will allow storage up to 500GB of fresh data mirroring that information on the opposite disk as a mirror or "back-up".

Glyph is about as bad as it gets in terms of reliability and performance before you invest in a mother server imo. Go glyph or go home.

http://www.glyphtech.com/products/gt062e/

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ArtByHumanDotCom said:
GLYPH hands down.

GLYPH GT 062E
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Glyph is about as bad as it gets in terms of reliability and performance before you invest in a mother server imo. Go glyph or go home.

http://www.glyphtech.com/products/gt062e/

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From the website - bolding is mine:

"The GT 062E supports up to 3TB using 7,200 RPM drives, and 4TB using 5,900 RPM. All models support RAID 0, RAID 1, and Spanning modes."


So if I want to have 4TB I can only have it at 5900 RPM? FAIL. Lol... next!
 
OldCorpse said:
From the website - bolding is mine:

"The GT 062E supports up to 3TB using 7,200 RPM drives, and 4TB using 5,900 RPM. All models support RAID 0, RAID 1, and Spanning modes."


So if I want to have 4TB I can only have it at 5900 RPM? FAIL. Lol... next!
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lol.

Can you still buy 5900 RPM drives anymore? maybe from a junk shop 2nd hand. XD
 
Smifis said:
lol.

Can you still buy 5900 RPM drives anymore? maybe from a junk shop 2nd hand. XD
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Actually... When I was in Fry's yesterday, virtually everything over 1TB was 5,900 RPM. At least the Seagates were... the Western Digital "Green" drives were the only other drives that large, and for the life of me I couldn't find the RPM anywhere on the package (or on Newegg's website).

Apparently high capacity and high speed don't play well together or something.
 
All WD's drives are 7200RPM now.
I think Samsung still does 5400RPM drive on its large models
and Mator and seagate I tend to keep away.

I have literally had every single Mator/Seagate (Same company now) Hard Drive die on me.
 
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