Ciprico MediaVault 4105S - hard drive array

Advantages: Fast transfer speed, protection from knocks and drops
Disadvantages: Fairly high price

...constantly and consistently. The interface transfer rate on the LaCie is 400 Mbps (Mega-BITS per second), this is different to memory capacity as it is the speed at which data is transferred between the hard-drive on a PC or laptop. The interface transfer rate along with the 8 MB of buffer size means that you get an overall data transfer rate in MB (Mega Bytes) of 30 MB/s (Mega BYTES per second). The 30 MB/s transfer rate means that the hard-disk will allow a maximum of 30 MB of data transfer every second to and from a desktop PC or laptop. As soon as you plug your LaCie external hard-drive into your PC or Laptop, it will be discovered virtually instantly as the average seek-time (time taken to discover or find the hard-drive) is 12 ms (mili-seconds), which is absolutely quick and efficient as is anything under 1 second. When buying... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, high capacity storage. Well built, looks good. 2 year warranty, No fan.
Disadvantages: No fan.

...I've just rebuilt a couple of PCs and realised my external USB hard drive was no longer big enough to use to back them both up. Accordingly, I started looking around for a bigger drive. I was going to buy a bare drive and stick it in a spare external case but as I wandered in to PC World, I saw this little beauty on sale with a nice reduction in price to a mere £85 or so. I've previously seen 'bargains' in PC World only to find everyone else had also dropped their prices and PC World were still expensive so I checked online and found that this time <shock/horror!> they were actually genuinely cheap. Back to PC World it was then... Only to find the formally huge pile of drives had shrunk whilst I'd popped home so I grabbed one quickly, paid (as you do) and took it home. I have to admit up front I've never touched anything from... Read review

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Advantages: Plug and Play, Really Fast Doesn't Overheat
Disadvantages: Nothing =D

...Freecom External 3.5" 160GB Hard Drive I first got the Freecom external hard 160GB hard drive when my internal one on my computer started to get clogged up with applications and other junk. So I decided to go and buy a Freecom external hard drive which is 160 Gigabytes in size. Since this hard drive is external, it does have to look good and not look like a tack bit of plastic with wires hanging out of it. With Freecom though, performance and design is everything. The hard drive enclosure itself is made of high quality, heat absorbing aluminium which is 20 x 11.5 x 4.5 cm ( or 7.9 x 4.5 x 1.6 inches ) in size. On the front of the hard drive enclosure is a storage LED indicator and on the back there is one ' rocker' power on/off switch, a usb port and a power adapter port. This hard drive has been givin five awards including... Read review

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