External Harddrive

[philo]

I have just started to work with a photographer who is rapidly
filling up his harddrive...and I want to add an external USB drive...
up in the 200Gig range.

I saw a 250Gig Maxtor One Touch (at NewEgg) that looks like it will
do the job. Though I have used many Maxtor drives without ever a single
problem...I was just wondering if anyone is familiar with this drive...or
has
a better suggestion. Reliability is a more important factor than price.


The machine is running Win2k, so I will of course be formatting the drive as
NTFS...however , I have never used a drive over 120 gigs before...
so what kind of problems might I encounter going over 137 gigs?

 

[Ralph Mowery]

I have just started to work with a photographer who is rapidly
filling up his harddrive...and I want to add an external USB drive...
up in the 200Gig range.

I hope he is backing up his work to a CDRW as sooner or later his hard drive
will crash on him. If not you need to get him to start doing that.

 

[philo]

I hope he is backing up his work to a CDRW as sooner or later his hard drive
will crash on him. If not you need to get him to start doing that.

Oh you bet he is...
I just replaced a 100gig drive that was "clicking" ...
Luckily we were able to move all the data off the drive before it died
completely!

btw: the drive had an 8 month guarantee..and i pulled it from
the machine *exactly* on the last day of warranty.. i made sure to get the
RMA at once!

 

[V W Wall]

I have just started to work with a photographer who is rapidly
filling up his harddrive...and I want to add an external USB drive...
up in the 200Gig range.

I saw a 250Gig Maxtor One Touch (at NewEgg) that looks like it will
do the job. Though I have used many Maxtor drives without ever a single
problem...I was just wondering if anyone is familiar with this drive...or
has
a better suggestion. Reliability is a more important factor than price.

The machine is running Win2k, so I will of course be formatting the drive as
NTFS...however , I have never used a drive over 120 gigs before...
so what kind of problems might I encounter going over 137 gigs?

I assume you've checked and the BIOS will take drives over 137GB. WinXP
requires SP1 to use >137GB drives. Assume Win2K is OK. Also assume USB2,
else it will be very slow.

Virg Wall

 

[philo]

I assume you've checked and the BIOS will take drives over 137GB. WinXP
requires SP1 to use >137GB drives. Assume Win2K is OK. Also assume USB2,
else it will be very slow.

Thanks for the reply...
Win2k will be updated to the latest SP if it does not yet have it
and will be using USB2 however...since the machine is probably 2 years
old...
maybe a little more... I'm sure the bios is *not* one that can handle over
137
gigs...
and that's the part where I am not at all familiar.

From my work with win9x...here is what I've observed:

For example...if i've had a machine that had a bios limitation of 8 gigs...
I could take a 20 gig hd that was partitioned on another machine...and win9x
would "see" the entire 20 gigs...
so I was just curious if the OS itself (win2k) would be able to "see" the
entire
drive...even though the bios could not? That the drive will be an external
USB
device makes me wonder if the "bios call" is needed.