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Article merged: See old talk-page here
- I have added some extra thing to the list of "Manufacturers of external hard disks/drives", can somebody categorized them, because I don't understand too much about what each company does, I just happen to have a list handy while I doing a report. Try not to remove external SSD manufacture out of there just categorize them, because those information are hard to find. Well if you really feel that exteranl SSD shouldn't be on there, then categorized them and just paste it onto my user page. Thanks people. -- Ramu50 ( talk) 01:08, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Still nothin' here that isn't covered there, 'cept for one image. Merged that in and redirected - WP:BOLD and all that. MrZaius talk 17:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with earlier statements that this should definitely not have been merged. Instead, the article should simply have been further developed. A disk enclosure is part of an external hard drive; they are definitely not synonymous. HoCkEy PUCK 18:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
The article claims that "By 1980, internal drives became the system of choice for computers running Windows." That doesn't make any sense, because the Windows operating system wasn't around in 1980. This needs to be fixed. — Lowellian ( reply) 01:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Lacie sells external hard drives that have 4TB. Under the history heading, at the end (the last sentence), it says: "Currently the commercial external hard disks of the highest capacity are usually found at 1 TB or 1.5 TB from manufacturers such as Hitachi, SimpleTech, Western Digital, Seagate, CMS, RecoNdata, Maxtor and LaCie" - I think that it should be changed.
See http://www.lacie.com/au/products/family.htm?id=10007 and http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?pid=10952
-- Panyé El Skat-e-board-ér ( talk · contribs) 05:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Honestly, that seems like a stronger rationale for change than not. If the language lacks enough nuance to allow for multi-disk chassis, it does need to be cleaned up. MrZaius talk 05:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking under the Compatibility section, to mention the format of a hard drive. Since FAT32 is rarely used for drives larger than about 32GB, most flash drives use FAT32 to insure wide compatibility with operating systems. Since external hard drives are a much larger capacity, users usually will have to pick either NTFS (windows) or HFS (Mac). Since these are more "exclusive" formats, a NTFS formatted drive will only be readable by mac (not writable), while a HFS formatted drive will not be detected by a Windows system at all. --Joey H
I believe this is worth mentioning under compatibility, as there are issues with compatibility for users who frequently go between windows and mac computers, and having two partitions on the drive tends not to be an usable solution.
While multiple partitions may work for some, it isn't practical for moving information. Since Macs can only read NTFS, and Windows can not even detect HFS/Journal, there is no practical and easy way to move files between a NTFS partition and a HFS partition. Furthermore, if you pay for a 250GB drive, and have to split it in half, you may use up space on the NTFS partition faster than the HFS, therefore leaving you with a full Windows partition, and 100GB free space on the Mac partition that you can't use. Since there is rarely a way to predict space usage, you're gonna run out of space on one partition long before the other. --Joey H
The end of this sentence in the Compatibility section doesn't make any sense to me. I don't even know why it mentions Hitachi at all and I think it has some grammar problems too:
"Obsolete systems such as Windows 98 (original edition)[6], Windows NT (any version before Windows 2000), old versions of Linux (older than kernel 2.4), or Mac OS 8.5.1 or older do not support them out-of-the-box, but may depend on later updates or third party drivers newer versions of hard drive are made be hitachi and go up the space of one terrabyte."
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Article merged: See old talk-page here
- I have added some extra thing to the list of "Manufacturers of external hard disks/drives", can somebody categorized them, because I don't understand too much about what each company does, I just happen to have a list handy while I doing a report. Try not to remove external SSD manufacture out of there just categorize them, because those information are hard to find. Well if you really feel that exteranl SSD shouldn't be on there, then categorized them and just paste it onto my user page. Thanks people. -- Ramu50 ( talk) 01:08, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Still nothin' here that isn't covered there, 'cept for one image. Merged that in and redirected - WP:BOLD and all that. MrZaius talk 17:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with earlier statements that this should definitely not have been merged. Instead, the article should simply have been further developed. A disk enclosure is part of an external hard drive; they are definitely not synonymous. HoCkEy PUCK 18:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
The article claims that "By 1980, internal drives became the system of choice for computers running Windows." That doesn't make any sense, because the Windows operating system wasn't around in 1980. This needs to be fixed. — Lowellian ( reply) 01:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Lacie sells external hard drives that have 4TB. Under the history heading, at the end (the last sentence), it says: "Currently the commercial external hard disks of the highest capacity are usually found at 1 TB or 1.5 TB from manufacturers such as Hitachi, SimpleTech, Western Digital, Seagate, CMS, RecoNdata, Maxtor and LaCie" - I think that it should be changed.
See http://www.lacie.com/au/products/family.htm?id=10007 and http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?pid=10952
-- Panyé El Skat-e-board-ér ( talk · contribs) 05:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Honestly, that seems like a stronger rationale for change than not. If the language lacks enough nuance to allow for multi-disk chassis, it does need to be cleaned up. MrZaius talk 05:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking under the Compatibility section, to mention the format of a hard drive. Since FAT32 is rarely used for drives larger than about 32GB, most flash drives use FAT32 to insure wide compatibility with operating systems. Since external hard drives are a much larger capacity, users usually will have to pick either NTFS (windows) or HFS (Mac). Since these are more "exclusive" formats, a NTFS formatted drive will only be readable by mac (not writable), while a HFS formatted drive will not be detected by a Windows system at all. --Joey H
I believe this is worth mentioning under compatibility, as there are issues with compatibility for users who frequently go between windows and mac computers, and having two partitions on the drive tends not to be an usable solution.
While multiple partitions may work for some, it isn't practical for moving information. Since Macs can only read NTFS, and Windows can not even detect HFS/Journal, there is no practical and easy way to move files between a NTFS partition and a HFS partition. Furthermore, if you pay for a 250GB drive, and have to split it in half, you may use up space on the NTFS partition faster than the HFS, therefore leaving you with a full Windows partition, and 100GB free space on the Mac partition that you can't use. Since there is rarely a way to predict space usage, you're gonna run out of space on one partition long before the other. --Joey H
The end of this sentence in the Compatibility section doesn't make any sense to me. I don't even know why it mentions Hitachi at all and I think it has some grammar problems too:
"Obsolete systems such as Windows 98 (original edition)[6], Windows NT (any version before Windows 2000), old versions of Linux (older than kernel 2.4), or Mac OS 8.5.1 or older do not support them out-of-the-box, but may depend on later updates or third party drivers newer versions of hard drive are made be hitachi and go up the space of one terrabyte."
Zeniff 20:29, 14 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding
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