In reply to a post by MHC:

Here it went to 00 seconds and the <Add to Basket> did not appear for about 10 seconds!

I only had to wait a couple of seconds, I guess it's the luck of the draw as to when the page joins the queue for updating.

Not as much fun as sniping on eBay though

There's quite a lot of graphics on that page too- a slow or congested line, slow computer, lazy browser... there's a lot that can introduce a fatal delay

I use decent but cheap USB2 2.5" caddies and plonk spare drives that I have here in them. Get the aluminium or some other metallic caddie and you can slip it in your back pocket and not worry about damaging it.

My advice is to avoid proprietary boxes from the likes of WD etc.

Does the drive come with a stand so that the drive can be stood on its side? (i.e. the long side)

My external drives all have simple stands that allow them to stand on their sides. I think this is better for more than 1 drive as it allows more ventilation, vertical stacking may give less ventilation.

No, there's no stand, it just lays flat on the desk like the WD, though I think it would be stable enough on its side. I've got them both at the rear of the desk laying flat under the iMac display, they fit there quite conveniently

The Seagate isn't as quiet as the WD, it's far from obtrusive but you can hear when it's spinning.

They've both got their activity LED in a stupid position- on the Seagate it's on top but right at the back, on the WD it's on the rear face next to the connectors, exactly where you can't see it

Edited by billford (Sat 01-Dec-12 22:32:13)

Thanks. Have you stacked them or are they side by side?

I could let you have a small mirror to let you see the WD activity LED

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

Thanks. Have you stacked them or are they side by side?

They're side by side, there isn't quite enough height to stack them, but as it's a 27" display there's plenty of width available.

I could let you have a small mirror to let you see the WD activity LED

I thought about doing a Blue Peter job- knocking up a sort of periscope out of kitchen foil, cardboard and (of course) double sided sticky tape