[Klug-general] Hard Drives

[George Prowse]

On 19/04/2011 18:57, Peter Childs wrote:
> On 19 April 2011 13:58, Paul Littlefield<info at paully.co.uk>  wrote:
>> I use Western Digital every time - on my servers, laptop and home DAS.
>>
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> In the end I concluded that pritty much any SATA drive would do, and
> got a Cheap 1/2 Terrabyte Barracuda Segate drive off Amazon.
>
> My old broken drive seams fine, switched the SATA port on my
> motherboard and switched the SATA cable with that from the DVD/RW
> drive and that seams to have fixed the problem.....
>
> In conclusion Hard Drives cost about £20 plus £20 per a Terra Byte.
> NAS are all very well but they cost the same as an extra computer. USB
> is only any good if you want mobility, If you NEED fast you need to
> look at Cache and a fast drive the bus is not the slowest thing any
> more....
>
> Peter.

I got my 1TB Buffalo NAS from ebay (new) and it was about £50 - a year ago.