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caribou87
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I got my 300GB off ebay last year, was very cheap for the time. An its served me very well. Very quiet an quick. Sorry, cant remeber the name..
But to check ebay out!
But to check ebay out!
Offer from Pixmania €99 for 500GB-
I was toying with the idea of doing something like this myself but I cannot for the life of me find such enclosures on eBay* for c. US$30 never mind 120GB 2.5" HDs for c. €50. You don't happen to have any links handy by any chance? Any idea what might be the minimum useful HD capacity for this purpose (I know that this is a bit of a how long is a piece of string question...)? I have a few 2.5" and 3.5" HDs knocking around but they may be too small for this purpose...I recently put something like that together very cheaply by ordering for $29.25 delivered and then separately picking up a 120GB 2.5" drive on eBay for another €50-odd. Works a treat, and you could go for a higher capacity if you wanted to carry around more stuff.
'Fraid not, as I've (so far) only connected my own either to the PC, to copy files onto it, or to the TV, to play them back. I don't have the player to hand at the moment, but I'll try what you describe later and report back (this may take a few days, as I'm away until the end of the week).Dr M may have more on this.
Can you post a link to details or an image of this cable?edit, that media player needs a special usb cable for connecting to an external. A mini-type on one end and a hex-type connector on the other
Why would you want to do this?so as we dont have one we havent tried to read an external while the 2.5" was in situ so dont know if thats possible, ie, you may have to remove the 2.5" if you wanted the player to read an external.
From looking at the media player, we figure that this is the cable thats required with the mini type on one end to connect to the player (as seen on some digi cameras) and the hex/square type at the other end to connect to an external HDD. But must stress we're not sure that that mini type connection is correct, if you do get the player, Id bring it into a shop to be sure. Id rang peats and maplins and they said they didnt stock it.Can you post a link to details or an image of this cable?
If you have the 2.5" drive seated then if you wanted to read any other external drive the 2.5" drive may need to be removed. Again, we're not sure on this but as we dont have the above cable we're unable to test. The cable that comes with it is the mini type on one end and a standard USB on the other for connection to a PC as Dr M describes. This works fine.Why would you want to do this?
Offer from Pixmania €99 for 500GB-
Can iTunes be backed up to an external hard disk?
Is it at 2.5" USB powered drive or a 3.5" which requires external power? Not clear from the link although I assume the former.- Medion 250GB - €99.99 - any good?