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Philica

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#68839 29-Sep-2010 11:31
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It has reached that time again when ive run out of storage. Ive been looking at a few external hard drives and was wondering if it would be better to buy something from the likes of WD or Seagate or buy a HDD and an enclosure? Im looking at a 1TB hooked up to my ps3 to play movies. So i realise ill have to have it formatted as FAT32 with a 4GB limit. What would you recommend? Oh i would also like it to automatically turn off and on with the ps3.

Thanks in advance for the help :)

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kobiak
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  #385797 29-Sep-2010 11:43
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I would go with HDD and enclosure as it gives you an option to chose better HDD and the one you like more.




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  #385807 29-Sep-2010 12:09
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kobiak: I would go with HDD and enclosure as it gives you an option to chose better HDD and the one you like more.


+1 for this option.

I bought one of these and 2x 2TB Greenpower HDDs. I actually got the enclosure cheaper than that but the whole lot still cost $500. <400GB to go til full then I dunno what to do Tongue out

Maybe get one of these? Undecided 

Philica

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  #385852 29-Sep-2010 13:55
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kobiak: I would go with HDD and enclosure as it gives you an option to chose better HDD and the one you like more.
Any HDD that you would recommend in particular?



Philica

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  #385876 29-Sep-2010 14:27
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Oh and another thing, should i look at 5400 or 7200 rpm drives?

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  #385878 29-Sep-2010 14:34
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I would go with any WD Green. these require less power and noiseless compared to others. and sure go for 7400 rpm and 32/64 mb cache.




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