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Gericom 250Gb External Hard Drive At Aldi [CLOSED]
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Thinking of picking one up this evening.
Any idea what make of drive it contains?
Is it noisy?
Does it get very hot0 -
skysnapper wrote:Thinking of picking one up this evening.
Any idea what make of drive it contains?
Is it noisy?
Does it get very hot
XP found it but used Partition Magic 8 for partition. No probs - all seems OK.
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Mine is also a seagate as mysernamestaken said.
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shrek101 wrote:I got mine today, the Aldi one. It looks very good build, has seperate power supply, 2 usb ports at front and two car reader slots. At the back there is a on/off power switch. Just plugged it into pc usb 2 and plug power supply and bombs you way. Its already formatted for fat32, prefer NTFS. Seems pretty fast, quite surprised.
If it's not too late for you, when I used the partition Magic I formatted it in NTFS then partitioned it.CHEAP IN COST NOT IN STYLE...0 -
I use to use PM but now use acronis partitionexpert its much better than the norton program.
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hi,
why do people partition a drive?
what free software is out there to partition a hard drive?
will the partition be read both by windows and apple osx?
by using the hdd on both windows and osx should i use fat32?
any other precautions as i do not want to lose data?
i am looking to pick up the aldi hdd on friday. is it a good buy for mass storage?
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I partition drives for good housekeeping, keeping perssonnel data on one, games on another etc etc. I prefer ntfs to fat32 as ntfs can read files above 4gb. As I do quite a lot of video editing, fiels can be over 4gb for a dvd.
Another reaosn is that I have winxp on a partition so I can back up on the dvdr rather than do a whole 160gb.
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hi,
isnt ntfs an xp thing? i need to use drive for both xp and osx.
will i be ok with fat32?
what happens when i rip a mini dv tape from camcorder 11gb for 60 mins of footage?
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NTFS original came from NT then win2000. Winxp is an updated version of win2000 with more bells and whisels.
If you rip a mini dv that is 11gb is size I would of thought if its fat32 it would split the files up. I wouldnt recommend even on a ntfs a 11gb file size to edit. I normally split fiels sizes down and edit and rejoin them back together, and burn to dvd
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