doceric said:Can I put this drive in a NAS enclosure and use it as a Network drive with my combined Mac and PC computers?

There are a couple of reviews on Newegg's site mentioning these drives in a NAS setup. All of them are positive. Think I'll order 2 of these and D-Link's DNS-323. Thanks OP.

mbnva said:This link doesn't work for me: http://www.fatwallet.com/redirect/bounce.php?afsrc=1&url=http://www.Newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218
the link is working for me.

and for those who want to avoid paying California tax at Newegg, the drive is back
in stock at Directron for $89.xx, + free shipping
link

timbo313 said:i'm preparing to be blasted for this question, but, what is a really easy enclosure to put a hard drive like this into, and, once you get it in there, and you plug it into your computers USB port, will it recognize the drive like plug n play, with a new folder added, or is it more complicated than that?

Any simple 3.5" HDD enclosure with USB would work. Cost anywhere from $15-$20 on up. It just shows up as a USB Mass Storage Device and no drivers required if you're using XP (or higher), OS X, Linux, etc. Sort of like a USB flash drive.

Cheers,
Eemrek

timbo313 said:thanks for the info..

but, i have an MAD DOG mega vault enclosure, but it says that it "Supports any IDE hard drive up to 400gb"

how can an enclosure have a ceiling for capacity, as long as its 3.5"?

I know some people have had 500GB IDE drives in that enclosure without issues.

The WD 640GB in this particular deal is SATA though so it wouldn't work in that enclosure.

Cheers,
Eemrek

What does OEM mean and will I be able to put this drive in my Dell Inspiron 530? Any help is appreciated.

SK1911094 said:What does OEM mean and will I be able to put this drive in my Dell Inspiron 530? Any help is appreciated.
OEM means "Original Equipment Manufacturer".

In the case of hard drives, it means it is just the hard drive itself in a "white box". No driver, software, manual, or cables are included.

Your Dell system has 4 SATA ports from what I can tell, so yes, you can put this drive in your Inspiron 530.

Never had a raptor, but my new RAID0 WD6400AAKS rocks!

I received two new WD6400AAKS 16MB cache HDDs Friday. I put them in RAID0 configured as d:\ drive. I have another RAID0 drive with two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250s 16MB cache configured as my e:\ drive.

As a speed test, I copied two 4 GB avi files from the d:\ to the empty e:\ drive.

Server2008 x64 showed sustained MBs/sec of 184-192. That's correct, both avi files totalling about 8 gigs were copied from my d:\ to e:\ drive in less than 45 seconds. I hardly believed it.

Copying back the other way after a quick format of the d:\ drive showed sustained 127 MB/sec.

Server2008 x64, Q6600 on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R, no overclocking.

TR

one more quickie, a reviewer on Newegg says "get a SATA cable if you don't have one, and SATA power plug adapter if your PSU doesn't have SATA power plug"

I bought an Antec MX-100 enclosure for SATA

I plan to connect this external setup to my PC via usb 2.0 , which, if any, cables will I have to get in this case?

sweetness, thanks. I think i got a good setup

Thanks thietlong! I'm in for one and I hope that Newegg's shipment packaging on OEM hard drives isn't as bad as I've read here .