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So ya reckon I'd be able to whack that together myself. Where do you get your cheap 320GB one from and can I be guaranteed that it will *now Paul, stop that* with my system as much as yours

gimme a sec, will see if they have one near you.

Or buy youself a 300Gb hard disk and whack it into one of these....

Can still use it as an external hard drive/backup drive if you want.....

Just take it with you as a media player .....

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VIBE-HDD-MEDIA-P ... dZViewItem

SWMBO is coming back from austria throguh dubai n!ext week and talking about buying a laptop duty free !Anyone think its a good idea?And if so what should she buy? Or just buy one here? That way you have warranty

if you're going to do that then go the MIVX, did the reasearch before the bro bought one.

Especially with laptops, I really recommend having some warranty. PC's are easier to fix yourself as they're very modular and you can get parts everywhere, but laptops are more difficult.

1.Slacks Creek 2.Morningside

http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

320g hdd $98
3.5" usb hdd case $33

open case, plug power and data cable into hdd, close case..............

320g external usb2 hdd for $121 thank you very much....................

Very good Steve...... yep... but watch the price on these

Basically one and the same thing........ or you cpuld buy a "Zune"

Thanks Steve - might do that. Though you didn't answer my question about the thing slowing down your computer inexplicably. Am I likely to end up cursing you if I get one - or will it be different cos it is externally mounted?

Rupe - wot do they normally go for?

actually VB thats why i posed the question! MY drive SHOULDNT have effected my PC!!!!!!! especially since its not the systemn drive!

Rope, got any ideas?

i'm going to disconnect it tomorrow and boot up again just to prove it to myself!

Yep.... put it this way....try plugging in another drive..... any other drive...

other than another WD drive that is

To be fair.... you will markedly improve performance of the WD drive if you "jumper" it directly.... i.e don't select "cable select" and if you use the WD application tools to lowlevel format and install the drive....

Also be wary of attaching the drive as a slave on the secondary channel, especially as a slave to a DVD or more importantly DVDRW drive......

That was with IDE, right? Or can you still do that with SATA? Thought most DVD drives were still IDE..

believe it or not now th4e system seems faster.............. will report back in a few days.

I'm aware of the speed limitations when transferring data between a master and slave on the same channel.

tell me more about the CS setting. does it bog it down over manually selecting master or slave?

Thjing is what my bro was talking about (and me until a few minutes ago) was just general pc running speed, not while transferring files or burning.

i believe the 320g is a slave on the primary channel (and the system 80gb is the master)

I initialiesed the disk from the logical disk manager in xp and did a quick ntfs format.

What i'm getting at is that there is no reason that a new idle drive (not system drive) would bog down general system operation, is there?