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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: USB Portable HDD Larger than 250GB? |
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| Does anyone know if they are selling portable HDDs in the neighborhood of 500GB in Yongsan? The largest I've seen (HDD and case) is 250GB. I would love to purchase a TB but not sure they're available in "portable" form as of yet. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:33 am Post subject: Re: USB Portable HDD Larger than 250GB? |
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| Easter Clark wrote: |
| Does anyone know if they are selling portable HDDs in the neighborhood of 500GB in Yongsan? The largest I've seen (HDD and case) is 250GB. I would love to purchase a TB but not sure they're available in "portable" form as of yet. |
3.5 for about 125,000 at 500gb (lowest price) are available. 2.5 up to 160gb for about the same price.
A TB would be portable only if you carry it in a smallish backback...expensive as well. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:59 am Post subject: |
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By an external case for 30,000 to 40,000 and then by a 500gb drive and put it in. Voila!
I did this back in July and then when I bought my new computer I moved the drive into that one and the case is sitting empty until I decide that 1.5tb is not enough and I need more storage. |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
By an external case for 30,000 to 40,000 and then by a 500gb drive and put it in. Voila!
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Will most cases support a drive that size, or is there a certain kind I need to get? It looks like the 3.5 drives aren't able to be powered by USB-only, unless I'm mistaken...  |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| Easter Clark wrote: |
| Will most cases support a drive that size, or is there a certain kind I need to get? It looks like the 3.5 drives aren't able to be powered by USB-only, unless I'm mistaken... |
external 3.5 cases come with a plug so they will run off of electricity from the wall rather than usb power. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: |
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The biggest 2.5" drive I see is a 320GB Western Digital for 225,000 won. That's pretty steep considering a 3.5" 500GB is only 100,000 or even less!
Throw in a cheapo case for about 10,000 and that's a drive for under 250,000.
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Confused Canadian
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| kprrok wrote: |
The biggest 2.5" drive I see is a 320GB Western Digital for 225,000 won. That's pretty steep considering a 3.5" 500GB is only 100,000 or even less!
Throw in a cheapo case for about 10,000 and that's a drive for under 250,000.
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Thanks for that! So I guess the best we can hope for at this time is a 320 GB--still quite a step up from the 40GB standard of just a couple of years ago! |
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Confused Canadian
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| Whoops! Fixed the link above... |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Ditto on buying the case and hard drive separately. Easy to put together and Ubuntu detected it right away. I built both an 80 gig and a 500 gig by buying components separately and putting it together myself. |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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Costco is selling 1Tb drives in the low 300,000 W range.
Buying 500Gb drives and cases is easy. I arrived here with a 320Gb and bought a 500Gb not long after I got here. I will send all my photos, music and other files backed up on the 320 to Australia next week. When I get back I will buy another smaller drive to do that again next year. I have more photos and music than can fit on my laptop and am not going to have only one copy.
I usually keep the smaller drive hidden away, so if my computer stuff gets cleared out I still have a fairly recent copy. Losing your photos sucks.
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
Buying 500Gb drives and cases is easy.
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Yes, but you're not talking about the USB-powered / 2.5" ones are you? I myself have a 500 GB external drive but it requires AC power. |
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