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Western Digital My Passport Essential 250GB USB Portable External Hard Drive

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from: Western Digital

February 13, 2008
The best of a variety of external HDD's I've used. I store VMware images on mine, and my virtual machines run great even though they're on a USB drive. With the compact size, and the fact that it is cool and quiet I highly recommend.

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Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB Portable External Hard Drive

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from: Western Digital

February 12, 2008
The best of a variety of external HDD's I've used. I store VMware images on mine, and my virtual machines run great even though they're on a USB drive. With the compact size, and the fact that it is cool and quiet I highly recommend.

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Slimline USB External Dual Layer DVD+-RW drive. Reads and writes both CD & DVD media. Slim and portable drive for laptop

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from: Made in China


This thing is extremely loud. I can't stress just how loud it is without typing in capitals and looking like a clown, so I'll say again, this thing is EXTREMELY LOUD.

The machine's whirring and clicking and vibrating across the table, that is, not the audio level of the cd's it plays. It honestly sounds like a power tool is being used in the house. You will probably regret buying it.

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Freecom Mobile Drive XXS 320GB USB-2 Portable Hard Drive

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from: Freecom

July 17, 2008
I have just taken my Freecom 320GB XXS out of its packaging and am amazed that so much power can be packed into such a tiny, well-designed unit. It really is an impressive little gadget. Very tactile in its protective sleeve and virtually silent in operation. With Mac OS X there's no set-up to do, you just plug it in, transfer the manuals into your documents folder, delete them from the Freecom (hope that was the right thing to do) and you're ready to go. There's one folder left on it called 'System Volume Information'. I'm not quite sure what that is so have left it on the HD just in case. On the packaging it says this tiny thing can store 215,000 Jpegs -amazing.

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Slimline USB External CDROM DVDROM CDRW Combo drive. Reads and writes CDs & reads DVD media. Slim and portable drive for laptop. Works with Asus EEE PC and all other laptops with a USB port

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from: Generic


This works with the Linux based version of the Eee PC. I thought I had to load the driver's off the provided disc.
It's worth having something like this.

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LaCie Mobile Disk 320GB USB2.0 - 2.5 inch - Bus-powered

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from: Lacie

February 26, 2008
I would highly recommend this disk. I'm using it with a Mac, and it worked straight out of the box (although I chose to reformat it in Mac OS Extended). It is very slim, very solidly build with a completely metal body, and it is almost silent. The buss power is a bonus as well -- really makes this easy to use.

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Western Digital Elements 250GB USB External Portable Hard Drive

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from: Western Digital

January 29, 2008
I bought this about eight months ago and it works well with one exception. It makes a rather loud and irritating clicking noise whenever it's writing data to it. It didn't bother me until i started to fill it up and now i'm worried that these clicking noises mean it's on it's last legs.
Also, from time to time Windows XP claims the device has malfunctioned and cannot be recognised. I think this may be a Win XP problem, however, as my linux box has no similar problems.

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Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB 500GB Portable External Hard Drive

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from: BUFFALO

July 15, 2008
Just upgraded to this model from a previous Buffalo Drive and couldn't be happier, the transfer rate is quicker than anything else I have used, totally powered by the USB cable so no bulky power supply, shock proof and all for under £100. I especially like the new cable tidy they include as it is such a pain trying to find the cable in a bag to connect the drive when you are on an airplane, with this drive the cable is strung round the drive and never gets lost. Overall i'd rate this as the best value for money and best performing portable drive I have seen.

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Seagate FreeAgent GO 250GB USB2.0 Portable Hard Drive

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from: Seagate

February 13, 2008
Small, quiet and really portable drive. Average speed 25 MB/s is not impressive comparing to 7200rpm 3.5 models but this drive is designed for easy access and mobility- not for speed! 5 years limited warranty included. 2 USB ports required!

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Freecom Mobile 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive USB-2, silver

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from: Freecom

September 23, 2006
I purchased one of these 2 weeks ago, backed up my Laptop straight away and put the HD away. I tried over the weekend to back up some more files to it and although the light came on, it wasn't recognized/couldn't be found by my Laptop or the other 2 Computers I tried it on. I think this is an appauling product and will certainly not be purchasing Freecom items in the future.