External HD results: Drives Working Properly

[rthomp03]

Seagate 500GB 16MB Buffer ATA-100 Hard Drive with Ultra External Enclosure

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB 7200 16MB ATA-100 EIDE OEM Hard Drive with Ultra Mini Portable USB 2.0 Firewire External Hard Drive Enclosure at TigerDirect.com

 

[BuddyBoy]

Maxtor 500GB Personal Storage 3200, bought at Fry's for $109. Would have preferred a Seagate drive and their 5 year warranty, but couldn't pass up a deal.

 

[rjruby]

Fantom Titanium II 500gb 16mb cache 7200rpm USB2.0 (basically an enclosure company that buys the drive for you using their wholesale purchasing power and installs it in their enclosure. Generally high ratings on Newegg.)

Metal enclosure, physical power switch, no fan.

I use the physical power switch to turn it on when needed and off when not needed, since I anticipate having the drive running about 1% of the time.

No problems so far, other than that the 622 seems pushed to the limit of its processing power when transferring and also doing a couple of recordings and playing back.

I have the same unit and also haven't had any problems.

 

[btyko]

Western Digital-My Book 500GB External Hard Drive

$109.99 at Bestbuy

 

[RedSavina]

Toshiba MK6021GAS

This is a 60GB 2.5" 5400 rpm notebook drive in a MassCool USB2.0 enclosure. At first the drive would not work (details here) with only bus power. When adding the external power source, the drive is recognized and formatted properly.

Cheers,
Red

 

[bigblock468]

Western Digital 500GB My Book, 16MB

 

[Farmer Dave]

Iomega 500 GB Desktop works fine. Unit has manual switch to turn it off when not in use. ($120 @ Amazon)

 

[hmcewin]

Western Digital-My Book 500GB External Hard Drive

$109.99 at Bestbuy

I checked online and at the store in Weatherford, TX and they had no WD 500 g drives for $109. Where did you find such a deal? I would like to get another one. Got one last week at BB for $119.00.

Thanks,

Henry

 

[jimjo3298]

Maxtor 500Gb 16MB Cache works Fine

 

[gweempose]

WD My Book (Premium Edition) 750GB, 16MB Cache - Working perfectly so far!

 

[odbrv]

Anyone get a SimpleTech® 500GB 3.5" External USB 2.0 Hard Drive to work?

 

[downriver]

Is this the WD model ya'll are using ??
Western Digital WDG1U5000

 

[sdmrt29]

Purchased and installed a Western Digital 750GB External Hard Drive - WDG1U7500N. All is working perfectly. The CSR that handled my activation (from Denver) was absolutely professional and comfortable with all the steps she needed to do to get me activated and started up to the HD formatting which takes a few minutes.
The menus to move recorded programs over to the external drive and back (I tested both) are simple and intuitive. Playback from the new HD was perfect in spectacular Hi-Def.

 

[Paradox-SJ]

Buffalo Duo Stataion 1TB in spanning mode

Formatted to 960GB by the 622

Auto pwr setting in use (so it spin down)

 

[BremenHusker]

WD My Book Essential 500 with no problems. Thanks Dish Network.

 

[odbrv]

Anyone get a SimpleTech® 500GB 3.5" External USB 2.0 Hard Drive to work?

I'll answer my own question. Returned both of my Seagate FreeAgents 500GB To Best Buy without any problems and replaced them with SimpleTech EHD SP-U35/500. Actually saved $30 on 2. Just installed one and it formated fine. The first time I tried to use it, I got an error message that no EHD was connected. Shut it off/on once and it has been recognized ever since. Tried send to, play, stop, FF, pause, and restore so far without problems. It has an easy to reach on/off button. I will probably turn it off when not in use. Saw other ideas of plugging it into the back of my audio receiver. Will try this out also.

 

[primetimeguy]

I will probably turn it off when not in use. Saw other ideas of plugging it into the back of my audio receiver. Will try this out also.

If you're going to do this why didn't you stick with the Seagate? It works flawlessly if you power it off when not in use.

 

[downriver]

How do you hook up an external Hard Drive if you are using a Thermaltake USB cooling fan??

I think I saw a post on this but can't find it.

 

[Dirtydan]

Get a USB Hub, a powered one might be best.

 

[downriver]

Get a USB Hub, a powered one might be best.

Are there any other options other than a hub?