So I turn on my lacie external hard drive this morning, it's the one designed by Porsche, (this one here), and I am met with a blinking orange and yellow light. Slightly strange, investigate further on the net and it seems a common problem with these external drives. Fortunately the hard drive was fine, it seems the PCB on the external enclosure is faulty. As I've had the external drive for over a year, I don't believe there is any warranty left, not that it matters really as I have already voided warranty by opening it up and getting the hard drive out.
So, I can't stick this hard drive in my pc as it's has an ide interface and I have no spare ide slots on mobo, (Asus p5k) and I don't want to continue using it in this icy dock enclosure as it is as noisy as hell. So suggestions please for a new SATA internal drive, and any recommendations on a good external ide enclosure which is as silent as possible?
Much appreciated!