Portable External harddrive or huge flash usb?

Donnie

PROLIANT wrote: »

Totally wrong, meet me outside of the Monument in Newcastle Upon Tyne tomorrow and talk to me like an ar*$e hole to my face, then see who the "Geek" is when I kick your ar$*e for being cheeky, silly little !!!!!!!

Even if I wasn't sitting near the beach in Thailand right now, I still wouldn't be tempted to meet you in sunny old Newcastle.

Since you like using computers more than you like training Muay Thai, you might end up having a torrid time.

Leopard

be_alright wrote: »

Does the OP even have a firewire port?

Be_Alright,

We don't know, b_a, and that - frankly - has been the whole cause of the problems on this thread.

The OP sought advice about what best to use for an external, portable, Photoshop hard drive but has remained anally retentive about the type of computer to which it is to be attached.

So nobody has known:

1. PC or Mac?
2. Tower or laptop?
3. Firewire 400 equipped?
4. Firewire 800 equipped?
5. How many USB2 ports and whether or not they are sited in a manner that would permit two of them to be connected to a Y-Lead.

And so, everybody sounded off with their own ideas.

All I said, myself, was that a Firewire 800 drive would provide the best results with a single lead connection and that if Firewire 800 was not fitted natively to the host computer, in very many cases it could be added - either by means of a PCI card on a tower or by ExpressCard/CardBus/PCMCIA on a laptop. (I have a Firewire 800 CardBus card that I used for some years with the expansion slot in an Apple G4 PowerBook.)

The debate (so far as I was concerned) was completely agnostic as to whether the platform of the host computer was PC or Mac but had it been revealed to be a Mac we would at least have known that it almost certainly had a Firewire 400 port and, quite possibly, a Firewire 800 port.


Dimmie,

If you are buying something online it is as simple to do so from a seller in London as it is from a seller in Paris, California or Sydney. You press a few buttons on your keyboard and a few days later it arrives at your door in the post.

The options for acquiring a 2.5" Firewire 800 drive are as set out in the thread to which I provided a link.

You can, as I explained in that link, either buy a 5,400 rpm LaCie Rugged FW800 external drive from a retailer in Britain or you can buy an enclosure from a retailer in America, plus a 7,200 rpm hard drive from a retailer in England, and put the latter into the former by a process that takes about ten minutes and requires you to insert six provided screws. It is extraordinarily simple for any layman to do.

Many people buy a new hard drive for their laptop and put its old hard drive into an enclosure. The OWC 2.5" Firewire 800 enclosure is a very nice piece of kit.


Proliant,

I strongly suspect that if he did turn up in Newcastle you would find that he would be wearing short trousers and a school cap.

(I, on the other hand, would suggest repairing to the nearest decent pub with you, there to admire your magnificent machine and the ingenuity with which you have installed Windows XP on it. I hope, sincerely, that it will give you very much pleasure.)


I trust that this tidies up all the outstanding issues in this thread.

Finally, for the record, the time in Thailand when Dimmie filed his last post was 5:09 am.

PROLIANT

Well gentlemen it has been fun, good night and know doubt we will be "debating" on some other subject very shortly.