500gb external hard drive - 109.99

[chinkgai]

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[pontifex]

I know Buffalo's routers are well liked, how are these rated?

 

[SpiderWiz]

I picked up a 320g Buffalo external HD, it works good. Only had it about a month.

 

[fatpat268]

Who's the manufacturer of the internal drive?

 

[StinkyMojo]

Buffalo's website doesn't say if it is 8mb or 16mb cache.

 

[dealmaster00]

Originally posted by: StinkyMojo
Buffalo's website doesn't say if it is 8mb or 16mb cache.

It won't matter for an external. If you are looking to take it out and use it as an internal, that's a different story...

 

[GeezerMan]

Most of you know this, but it does have an internal sata interface, but just a USB link to the PC. So it's not a eSATA external drive. I think they put that sata in the description to fool some people into thinking that it's a eSATA. Sata internal interface does help the speed just a tad, but nothing like eSATA speeds

 

[dwcal]

My Buffalo 500GB has a Samsung inside. It's almost the same model, except it also has firewire.

 

[0roo0roo]

interesting

yea theres a firewire+usb version but its not on sale, thats 169bucks.

i got the usb one pretty sweet price considernig its only 9 dollars more than the 500gb internal maxtor thats on sale,

 

[BZeto]

I was at Fry's today and it was marked at 149.99. I may just order online.

 

[0roo0roo]

you probably saw the firewire+usb version
the boxes are almost identical!

the usb version might have been on a pallet in the middle of a walkway instead of on the shelf.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: BZeto
I was at Fry's today and it was marked at 149.99. I may just order online.

I was at Fry's (Bayarea) and it was 109.99. They also had the Seagate 320GB FreeAgent external drive with 5 year warranty for 79.99.

 

[0roo0roo]

heh, the 500 still has better price per gb
but 5 years is nice.
installed mine, was a snap. came formated fat 32, easy reformat to ntfs.

hows the power saving features on this?

 

[0roo0roo]

its back

 

[imported_jeffterm]

I bought 4 of these to do weekly backups on my server. One identified itself as a Samsung drive, the other 3 identified as Western Digital 500AAKS models. All 4 are now reformatted NTSF and working well.

 

[0roo0roo]

now theres an acom 500gb usb2.0/firewire 400 for 119 at frys. its enclosure is much smaller, so it relies more on heatsinking i guess.
shopping for the firewire cable it seems frys got beat out by.... target the 3 in 1 belkin firewire cable with two mini plug adaptors was 20 at frys, 15 at target