How I Bought New Hard-drive

Few days ago, I figured out, I'm running out of disk space. I hate DVDs and CDs for general-data storing. I'm using them just for back-ups of the most important files. I had owned 4 hard-drives, 2x250GB, 80G and 60G when I found out I have no more space. Now, I'm running Mac OS X installed on PC and I'm saving money for Mac. That's why I refused to buy internal SATA drive. I wanna connect it to Mac in future. So I have chosen external USB2 drive. I wanted 1TB WD Mybook2 drive, but it had been currently unavailable. So I had chosen Seagate Freeagent desk with size 1TB, and price €110, that was shipped next day. 

I like the drive. It's pretty fast, nice, have some special LED effects indicating it's activity. It's not boiling, even after few hours of full-speed copying it's temperature won't be high. I like it. I've read few overviews that this drive usually dies after one month of usage, but I hope mine will be fine. 

The drive is absolutely cool. Fast, nice powerful. Only problem is with my jerky computer. I have about two-and-a-half years old computer, Celeron D processor 3GHz, 1 Gig of RAM and some cheap As-Rock motherboard. It was very cheap, cost about €350 at all. It's old, but I'm using it only for watching movies and as a music player. The plan was to connect new external drive to this computer and use it to store movies. When I plugged the drive in, it wasn't working. System found it, but didn't mount it. Sometimes it has been mounted, but data transfer was no possible. I thought that problem is on the side of new drive, but after some testing I found out, that no drive, but my USB sub-system is death. I've tested drive on other computer and worked fine, I also connected USB stick to defect USB on computer and didn't work. 

So now I have external drive connected to my laptop and using it thought network. It's much slower but still highly usable and I hope to buy Mac Mini in few months. I'm also thinking about buying one of these PCI > USB extension cards, but I probably won't do it, because I needs more drivers, and makes system unstable especially because I have system cracked to run on ordinary PC. 

It works, even if it's jerky, and I hope it will run for at least 2 years. If you wanna buy this external drive I can just recommend it, looks solid, it's small, silent and I hope will be reliable. 

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