anyone need a portable HDD? for backups etc?

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Good price and warranty (3) years but it's a shame to use a 5400 RPM drive in a enclosure that supports USB 3

I purchased one of these from CDW a few months back (paid more) to use a portable media drive for vacation trips. Really well built
 
Originally Posted By: scurvy
$55 shipped for a portable 1TB hard drive is a good deal. Thanks!


its 50$ shipped. use eggsaver not ups
for free shipping.

The worst thing in reviews is people say is its "slow"

well that is relative as long as it goes 40-50MB/sec I'm fine with that. Usually the registers I'm backing up max out less than that esp with backup software... none have usb 3.0 so usb2.0 will max out around 40MB~~/sec anyway.
 
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Originally Posted By: Rand
its 50$ shipped. use eggsaver not ups
for free shipping.


Yep - already caught that as well. $49.99 out the door is great for a portable drive!

Thanks again Rand.
 
Nice price - though I just bough a couple big thumb drives and instructed (nicely) the spouse to download her photos onto the removable drive not onto the hdd.
I just bought a small form factor PC at Newegg for $299 for a pentium 645 with .5T storage, 4GB mem + a dvd burner + many usb2 ports - sorry no usb 3
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Win 7 premium with Microsoft office (limited functionality). Nothing earth shattering, but it replaces my other (cheapie) 10yo AMD single core compaq presario that was struggling running Norton AVP + anything else requiring mild lifting. I really had my heart set on a dell optiplex 790 with an intel sandybridge to futureproof things a bit - but couldnt find a new unit at a good enough price.
This is all just for casual home use with some mild xL and word processing and mild photo editing and finishing.
 
Originally Posted By: Virtuoso
Memory of all types is so cheap these days. How cool.


technically speaking its not memory, its storage.

the difference between your kitchen counter,
and a closet.
 
Originally Posted By: Rand
Originally Posted By: Virtuoso
Memory of all types is so cheap these days. How cool.


technically speaking its not memory, its storage.

the difference between your kitchen counter,
and a closet.


Technically, yes. Point taken.
 
Got the new Hdd in today, it seemed flakey but I got an error message "power surge on usb hub" Device has exceeded the maximum power.

That was with my front port usb 3.0 connector. I then tried a front port usb 2.0 connector and it worked but "device was not ready" halfway through a copy.

I then used 3 different ports on the back of the computer (usb3 and usb2)
and it worked flawlessly.
Also worked fine on the notebook.

I copied a 5.4GB file in 49seconds. on usb3
on usb2 it was about half as fast.
 
Originally Posted By: Rand
Got the new Hdd in today, it seemed flakey but I got an error message "power surge on usb hub" Device has exceeded the maximum power.

That was with my front port usb 3.0 connector. I then tried a front port usb 2.0 connector and it worked but "device was not ready" halfway through a copy.

I then used 3 different ports on the back of the computer (usb3 and usb2)
and it worked flawlessly.
Also worked fine on the notebook.

I copied a 5.4GB file in 49seconds. on usb3
on usb2 it was about half as fast.


HD that does not have an independent power source (i.e. 2.5" drive that draws directly from the USB port) draws a lot of currents, and some devices like keyboard only assume you are going to draw a small amount for small devices like mouses.
 
Got mine today, too. No problems so far. Getting about 85-90 MB/s when copying large files to it and about 100 MB/s when copying large files from it. I can live with that.
 
Still impressed with this drive. When it comes to reading/writing of sequential large files, it is actually faster than my built-in laptop HDD. I wish I bought 2 of them...

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Huh. Good benchmark programs.. I would assume the results are correct. I guess I haven't run one on my own drives in a while.

Might have to pick up another new external or two. Prices are great.
 
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