[Dream] external harddrives

[Andrei Henry]

i've had a USB external HD without a fan for 2+ years now, and it works just great - so one more example of fan not being required.

it also has a blue light all the way around the case... at first i thought it was cool, but the damn thing blinks everytime it does a read or write.  so when copying large files, the thing almost makes me have an epileptic seizure because of all the blinking.  ok, not really, but it is visually annoying - i have to hide the drive under the desk or behind my screen if i want to continue working while it copies. 


----- Original Message ----
From: Conor Todd <conor.k.todd at gmail.com>
To: Psytrance producers' forum <dreamweavers at enabled.com>
Sent: Monday, July 2, 2007 10:43:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Dream] external harddrives

And make sure the enclosure has a fan -- the most common cause of hard-disk failure is over-heating.

   - Conor



On 7/2/07, Dale Ghent < daleg at elemental.org> wrote:

On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Almir wrote:

> no particular reason really. so you recommend just buying an
> enclosure and a hard drive separately? anything i should pay
> special attention to when buying an enclosure?

Be sure that the enclosure uses an Oxford bridge chipset (at least an 
Oxford 922 chip) ... this chip does the job of converting from the
drive's IDE interface to Firewire and USB2.

/dale




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