Posted by: andym
This looks cool....
Posted by: Shonky
Re: This looks cool.... - 26/11/2004 09:07
I'd have to ask why? What advantage is there in making a portable HDD wireless? What's wrong with USB/firewire?
I'm probably missing something here.
I'm probably missing something here.
Posted by: andym
Re: This looks cool.... - 26/11/2004 09:24
It was really the choice of connectivity. It's a USB external drive, a 10/100 ethernet drive and also a wireless network drive too.... and it's only 55 quid. For me a network drive would be more useful than a USB/firewire drive.
Posted by: bonzi
Re: This looks cool.... - 26/11/2004 09:44
I agree that a network-connected newtork enclosure could come handy. MS-SMB/Samba, I suppose?
Posted by: hybrid8
Re: This looks cool.... - 26/11/2004 17:04
USB/Firewire can only be accessed by a single host computer at once. A network drive can be accessed by multiple machines without having to move the drive about. Wireless just means you don't have to locate it near a hub (though it's going to be a PITA for large file moves).
Bruno
Bruno
Posted by: lastdan
Re: This looks cool.... - 27/11/2004 16:49
this part seems a little weak:
(from the like above)
Question / Problem
Are there any limitations on the hard drive i can use in this?
Author: KB Administrator | Date: 25/11/2004 09:42
Answer / Solution
HDD functionality and limitations Supported file systems: FAT, FAT32, NTFS (read-only), EXT2, EXT3 Supported disk size: Less than 40GB Supported file size: Less than 2GB
(from the like above)
Question / Problem
Are there any limitations on the hard drive i can use in this?
Author: KB Administrator | Date: 25/11/2004 09:42
Answer / Solution
HDD functionality and limitations Supported file systems: FAT, FAT32, NTFS (read-only), EXT2, EXT3 Supported disk size: Less than 40GB Supported file size: Less than 2GB
Posted by: andym
Re: This looks cool.... - 27/11/2004 17:26
That's probably just feckless oik that looks after the website. I'd probably go to the manufacturers website and check if I wanted to be sure.
Posted by: andy
Re: This looks cool.... - 28/11/2004 07:38
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feckless oik
Yeah. I am slightly wary of Scan (though I still buy stuff from them). I ordered some very specific IBM 18GB SCSI disks from them at one point.
The drives that turned up where labelled with the same model number as the disks I had asked for. However when I came to use them a month later I discovered that they weren't even made by IBM, but had be rebranded by IBM as IBM disks.
Unfortnately they were a few hundred kilobytes smaller than the IBM model they were pretending to me, which made them useless to me as I was trying to extend an existing RAID5 array.
When I tried to send them back they insisted that I needed to tell them about problems like this within two weeks of purchasing. So the two disks are still sitting on the shelf waiting for when I rebuild the array.
Posted by: mdavey
Re: This looks cool.... - 28/11/2004 09:21
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When I tried to send them back they insisted that I needed to tell them about problems like this within two weeks of purchasing.
Yea, Scam are well-known for their quality of after-sales service. I put them in the same category as Dixons Group and Watford Electronics.
Posted by: andy
Re: This looks cool.... - 28/11/2004 13:19
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Watford Electronics
Ah yes, bought a 14 inch monitor from them many years ago. Got it home an hour later. There were finger prints on the glass and it wouldn't power on. When I took it back an hour after that they tried to tell me that they would have to send it away for repair.
I found that standing at their sales counter making my complaint loudly got me the refund I required. The only benefit I can find of living in Watford...
(I have since escaped Watford, after 18 long years there)
Posted by: andy
Re: This looks cool.... - 28/11/2004 13:27
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Dixons Group
Ah yes, had the misfortune to have a holiday job in their Watford store for a while. This was back in the early nineties when five foot high, one make, "separates", "hifi" systems were the height of sophistication for Dixon's customers.
I'm ashamed to admit that I was the feckless oik running around the stock room with a bottle of Mr. Sheen and a roll of Sellotape trying to marry up dusty TVs, hifi and VCRs that had been separated from their box and instructions and kicked around the stock room for a month. Putting them back in their boxes and making them appear "new" was an art form (especially for the afore mentions five foot high hifi systems).
I was only following orders
Still, I expect it is all different and above board nowadays
Posted by: tman
Re: This looks cool.... - 28/11/2004 14:44
Didn't they get fined ages ago for shrink wrapping returned software and selling it as new? This was back in the day of Microsoft software on floppies where it'd brand the first disk with your entered details. Somebody bought a package, took it home and tried to install it and found it came up with somebody elses details even though it was alledgely new.