External Enclosure

[Pherr the Dorf]

Need a good external enclosure for a 500 gig hd (there is far too much good music out there), it needs to be able to stay cool as I run music for 8+ hours at a pop

[Winnow]

Need a good external enclosure for a 500 gig hd (there is far too much good music out there), it needs to be able to stay cool as I run music for 8+ hours at a pop

Who sells 500gb HD's and why didn't I know about it!

Hitachi has one out:

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/e ... 1bac4f0a0/

gotta be pretty expensive though I'd imagine compared to two 250's at about 100.00 each. I'd consider getting an external case that can hold two hard drives (or even 4). You could probably get 1TB of storage for the price of one 500GB HD. Seagate has a 500GB HD coming out in the next few months as well but prices are always sooooo expensive on the largest HDs and drop off quite a bit one step below which would now be the 250-400GB range.

[Sumdaor]

nm winnow edited his own post!

[Winnow]

nm winnow edited his own post!

I'm sneaky like that!

I edited it again though after you made the comment so got stuck with the edit message at the bottom of the post. Bah!

[Pherr the Dorf]

so where's a good case for 4 HD's that can be used portable

[Winnow]

so where's a good case for 4 HD's that cane be used portable

Anything's portable! : )

There's lots of cases out there. It depends on how portable and what kind of connection you want...USB2, Firewire, LAN, SATA, etc. It also depends on if you want hot swappable HDs, RAID, etc.

They'll look something like these:





Oops. Got carried away.



Sweet!



/drool

You could get a preconfigured Terastation (1TB storage 4X250GB HDs) like I have but it's not the cheapest solution and you won't get good transfer speeds unless you hook it up to a gigabit lan and enable jumbo frames which requires researching gigabit switches to be sure they are capable of jumbo frames...ok, let me save you the research. This is the only consumer grade gigabit switch with jumbo frame support:



There's also an 8 port version which is the one I have.



If you decide on something like the Terastation, you can configure it in cool ways like this:




There are much much much cheaper solutions out there though. I grabbed the terastation because it's its own server and had gigabit. If you're just looking for a USB type external HD. I'd just recommend getting a 300MB external for maybe 200.00 instead of spending 500.00 on a 500GB HD plus have to buy the external case on top of that.

[Pherr the Dorf]

ok Iam just a music junkie not enough of a dork to know what I need.

I have currently 300+ gigs of music, need to up that to about... 500 easy, maybe 7 or 800, want it to be portable so I can just take it with me where ever I go, the smaller the better, there are times the drive will be run for hours on end so I need it to not be something that will overheat easy...



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[Winnow]

ok Iam just a music junkie not enough of a dork to know what I need.

I have currently 300+ gigs of music, need to up that to about... 500 easy, maybe 7 or 800, want it to be portable so I can just take it with me where ever I go, the smaller the better, there are times the drive will be run for hours on end so I need it to not be something that will overheat easy...



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That's a LOT of music. On the 500GB Hitachi HD page it says 500GB will hold:

125,000 high quality, 4 minute MP3 recordings

The sweet spot if around 250-300GB for price currently.

Also take note that the new 500GB Hitachi runs very hot compared to other drives:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20 ... ays_better

for the Samsung Spinpoint Hard Drives

Stay away from LaCie external HDs.

This external 500GB HD looks nice if you are able to use Firewire instead of USB2:

http://www.superwarehouse.com/p.cfm?p=6 ... 8592436236

Newegg has the barebones Hitachi SATA and IDE 500GB HDs in stock but there's still quite a bit extra you pay for the largest storage option:

IDE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... TC-17exta6

SATA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... TC-17exta6

[Pherr the Dorf]

maybe my average time od song is high, but at 300 gigs of music I am sittin on alil over 69,000 tracks, still pretty damn impressive and growing...

That PXL500b is pretty nice, prolly gonna go that way

[Mr Bacon]

maybe my average time od song is high, but at 300 gigs of music I am sittin on alil over 69,000 tracks, still pretty damn impressive and growing...

That PXL500b is pretty nice, prolly gonna go that way

Hrm you need like.. 3 ipods for that!

[Aslanna]

Personally I think keeping that much (and growing) in one spot is dumb. Sooner or later whatever drive it's sitting on is going to die. Especially if you're toting it all over the place. And you'll be left with nothing.