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Been finding some good deals on 2.5 disks lately, but have never bought one before. Have a couple of 3.5 disks on the other hand in my Unraid server. Wondering how much it matters wether I get a 2.5 or not? What form factor do you prefer/usually go for?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except the mp3 players from Archos, which gave up after setting up. Twice.

[–] yggstyle 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Man my 6000 was immortal. Outlived 2 desktop drives and survived a car roll while in use. I was convinced they had made some blood pact with Nokia lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I got mine, moved some songs into it and an hour into listening the drive started clicking and the player was dead. Amazon replaced it and it was exactly the same. I forgot what model it was, but the discs were extremely fragile.

[–] yggstyle 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In general laptop drives were a gamble so it's not shocking. I'm curious if I got a later batch or something or just got lucky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That was one of those 1 and something inch tiny drives. They were crap

[–] yggstyle 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Maybe we were talking about different units then - this is the one I had:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Archos+Jukebox+Recorder+20+Hard+Drive++Replacement/103263

Standard 2.5" laptop drive 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. Mine was tiny.

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