Cheap 500Gb Ext Drives

[RKASA]

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html

Could be coming soon to a market near you. :jap:

[Phil Conners]

Awesome! Caveat emptor!

[sulasno]

Friend bought a 500GB (which is actually 465) for me at 1800 Baht while he got the Buffalo at 1900 Baht

[rakman]

Friend bought a 500GB (which is actually 465) for me at 1800 Baht while he got the Buffalo at 1900 Baht

A 500GB drive is rated before low level formatting. The headers and trailers of the data sectors take up a fair amount of overhead. So you're getting more bytes than on the label, it's just some of them are used by the system.

This is a decent link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Disk_interface_families_used_in_personal_computers and its a start for those who wish to discover the basics of the internals of the PC and parts. :jap:

[astral]

I bought a Buffalo drive (1Tb) recently.

But when I checked it at home, the disk inside was Western Digital..........

I felt cheated.

[endure]

I bought a Buffalo drive (1Tb) recently.

But when I checked it at home, the disk inside was Western Digital..........

I felt cheated.

Buffalo don't make hard drives - they make the cases that the hard drives are wrapped up in.

[Phil Conners]

But surely not as cheated as you'd have felt opening it up and finding two nuts and a usb stick in it...