Iomega ext drive at Rat Shack..deal? or no deal?

[Blindowl1234]

I got a WD 500Gb ext harddrive the other day for Christmas...I tried using it with the Sathawk/Openbox and gave up. Radio Shack has this week a 1TB Iomega for around the same $70. I went and got it yesterday and it works great. Seemed like a good price...it was like $30-40 less than their usual price....thought I'd pass it along....blind

 

[Tron]

It's a reasonable deal for an external 1TB hard drive, especially if you don't want to buy online. They can often be had cheaper online. The 1TB drives are taking a price hit with the 2TB drives becoming more common and even 3TB drives hitting the shelves.

 

[Mr Tony]

I got a WD 500Gb ext harddrive the other day for Christmas...I tried using it with the Sathawk/Openbox and gave up. Radio Shack has this week a 1TB Iomega for around the same $70. I went and got it yesterday and it works great. Seemed like a good price...it was like $30-40 less than their usual price....thought I'd pass it along....blind

good to know. I assume its just USB 2.0 and not esata too?
(esata would work on the Directv reciever)

 

[FaT Air]

All the SSO's seem to require an external HDD that are powered by an external, dedicated, power source.

 

[Blindowl1234]

It's 2.0 and has external power supply. Sure beats the old days when I still had a VCR and recorded stuff lol...blind

 

[Phottoman]

While at Frys last week we picked up a Seagate 2TB external powered USB. It works GREAT on the OSS.

But I have a (newbie) question.

I saw a LOT of USB3 items, including external drives.

Is this compatible with USB2 like the USB2 is compatible with USB(1)?

Photto

 

[Tron]

USB3 devices are backwardly compatible with USB2, so you should be able to operate a USB3 hard drive on a USB2 host.

Here is a good article in PCWorld about USB3.

 

[Phottoman]

Tron,

Thank you for the article. VERY interesting read.

Photto

 

[mikelib]

USB3 devices are backwardly compatible with USB2, so you should be able to operate a USB3 hard drive on a USB2 host.

Here is a good article in PCWorld about USB3.

Thanks Tron, interesting article, it did not say if the USB3 is capable of providing higher power to devices than a USB2

 

[Tron]

Thanks, don't know about the power spec though... I've been seeing quite a few USB3 drives in the stores lately.

 

[chaskuchar]

i got a 350g at target a while ago for 40. it powers off the usb connection instead of an external supply. it didn't work until i formatted it with the pc. it is handy without the external supply. i am using it on the sathawk/open box. charlie

 

[Tron]

What brand/model drive is it? I use Western Digital Passports on my Visionsats, haven't tried them on the Openbox.