I hate the computer business..

[theducks]

Everything is so cheap, buggy and commoditised, or insanely expensive.

Case in point: I want a bunch of 400GB USB2 or Firewire hard drives. Now, I could pay $628 (+shipping) for one from Zytech. Or, I could buy a drive for $357 and an enclosure for $99. But would it work? It might. But you can never trust it. The vendor of the case will blame the drive, and the vendor of the drive will (rightly) blame the vendor of the enclosure.

I wish I could just buy PC components and have them act as expected.

Comments

[mkj.livejournal.com]

Buy them both from the same place, and make sure that the shop says that they'll work together. If they don't, you can return them (wrt fair trading act or whatever) because of "unfit for purpose".

[mkj.livejournal.com]

... and a "bunch" of 400GB drives? What're you storing.....

[theducks.livejournal.com]

I try to keep three copies of everything ;) One production, two backups in seperate locations. Currently I have 1 x 80GB in my laptop, 1 x 80GB I carry around when I leave my laptop at home, and 1 x 120GB at work.

I'm looking to upgrade the internal drive in my laptop to 160GB.. the enclosures I have only do <128GB drives.. which means I'll need new enclosures to backup the new drive. I figure why stop at 160GB.. I also want something for, as grahame said, storing videos. And backups of that too.

But yeah, 320 might do.