Hard Drives > Archos Hard Drives

Advantages: Very nice and relatively light high storage addon
Disadvantages: plastic.... "feeling hot hot hot " springs to mind.

Speed / Size ---------------------- Note : This does require its own power source.. supplied in the form of a power adaptor. This is a 120 Gigabite hard drive, but formatted with fat 32 = 115 Gigs :-( Speed is 7200rpm, not sure about the cache sorry. Connections -------------------------- This is either usb 1.1 or 2.0, and i would very highly recommend that you use it with 2.0 as its very fast and trnsfering data is easier. With 1.1 it takes forever, ...
...comes less stability. It can be done with large files ( transfering that is ) but just be prepared to wait a long time :-) whilst moving 4 gigs from a friends pc, it took on usb 1.1 an hour and a half !! Compared to around 15mins on 2.0....so you see the need for speed ? The hard drive is supplied with its own USB - USB cable, its around 1meter, so its fairly long, but i wouldnt recommend using an extention unless it was necessary for data corruption ... Read review

Advantages: FAST, RELIABLE, AND SECURE WITH LOADS OF SPACE.
Disadvantages: COMES WITH VERY SHORT USB CABLE.

I purchased my Archos QDISK about 12 months ago from a well known TV Shopping Channel, since then its price has fallen somewhat. This portable hard drive requires no driver for Windows XP or Windows 2000/ME. You simply plug the USB cable into your PC and away you go, it acts just as your local hard drive in that it appears as a Hard Disk Drive with a drive letter when you go to "My Computer". You can store absolutely anything on this portable hard ...
...of space, I am yet to use half of the 60 Gigabytes because there are no operating system files etc. The QDISK is also great for laptop computer users as it can fit into a laptop case, depending on your case size. However you will probably need some means of strapping to keep it secure. I take my QDISK on Holiday with my laptop and upload all the days photographs to the QDISK. So I have lots of space on my cameras memory card for the next day. ... Read review

Advantages: Fast with large files, quiet fast with small files, quiet, doesn't struggle with large files.
Disadvantages: May need defragging alot.

I have this drive pre installed in my computer and the first thing i realised was that it was extremely FAST; i had tested the drive on a hard drive benchmarking program called 'HDTach'. This is as on my HP'm7635', using this drive i got a burst speed of 210 MB/s and a average read rate of 70MB/s; both are extremely fast. I also realised that this drive was extremely quiet; being installed in my media cennter PC it wasn't exactly a suprise though. ...
...the context of everyday computng this hard drive is very fast, windows loads up very quickly. You can force large files down the hard drive and it wont struggle; though i still recommend that you defragmentate the drive on a regular basis for optimal speed. To expand on my statement of what fast is, i mean to say that the drive is able to handle copying of large files such as movies very quickly. The drive is also fast in seeking files from a random ... Read review

Advantages: 120GB, Good price, Extremely easy to use.
Disadvantages: Takes up 2 USB slots.

...drive also comes with some Maxtor software designed to ease back-up and synching of data. For this purpose I would recommend just downloading Microsoft's SynchToy which is available as a free download and in my opinion is more powerful and easier to use than the software that comes with the drive. Another useful feature of the included software is the ability to encrypt and password-protect the data on the drive. I would definitely recommend this ... Read review

Advantages: 250GB of internal memory!! At a reasonable price, too!
Disadvantages: No major disadvantages. Not as quiet as I believed it would be.

...low, this 250GB drive from Western Digital was the highest capacity ATA internal drive I could find at a reasonable price, and so far it has not let me down! It took a bit of effort to clone my original hard drive to the new one, which required the purchase of an external hard drive enclosure, but once the process was completed, I simply removed my old hard drive, insterted the new one and was ready to go! And now I have my old 60GB drive in the ...
...has gone to waste in the upgrade! The drive has been completely reliable and performs exactly as expected. The only slight quibble I have is that despite the manufacturer's claim that it is one of the quietest drives around, it is slightly louder than my old one. Regardless of this however, it is still pretty quiet and the noise level is not a problem even when left on at night. All in all I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade ... Read review