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hmarkvitz
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_ 		5. June 2010 @ 19:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I got yesterday from the mail my new WDTV 1 Gen HD Player. I bought this players cause I got it for a deal price of 45 bucks. The problem I have seen after updating the player to the latest firmware is that some of my movies won't play from my seagate 500gb freeagent go but will play from a formated NTFS pen drive. I think this has to do with a power lacking problem with the drive cause it has happened with other devices. I was thinking of buying a 3.5 external drive but don't know if I will get better speed and quality going for a brandname drive or going for a external enclosure and internal drive. Bt the way, I am using a Macbook Pro to transfer files and maybe considering to use the drive for backup my mac. The drives I found where: (My limit is 130 dollars)

HP SimpleSave 1.5TB: for 130
http://www.amazon.com/SimpleSave-Des...5766878&sr=8-5

Western Digital Elements 2TB: for 130
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...5764433&sr=8-3

OR a

Western Digital 64mb Caviar 1.5TB Drive: 95
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...766980&sr=1-15

With one of these enclosures:
http://www.amazon.com/Macally-G-S350...5767021&sr=1-5

http://www.amazon.com/Macally-T-S350...767065&sr=1-33
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KillerBug
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_ 		7. June 2010 @ 02:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
HP & WD both make terrible external controllers.

If you need more power to your external drive, you could try using a powered hub...that is what I had to do in order to get my portable hard drive working reliably with my underpowered USB ports.
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