Hard Drives > CF+ Hard Drives

Advantages: Good value for money compared with other compact storage
Disadvantages: Battery usage is higher than standard CF cards

The Microdrive is a compact flash storage card. It's designed for use with digital cameras, MP3 players etc and should work with any type 2 compatible compact flash device. Compact flash is usually a collection of memory chips that store your date. The microdrive uses a micro sized hard disk drive mounted within the same shape and size as a type 2 compact flash card. This has the advantage of allowing storage on cheaper magnetic media rather than ...
...your buck. The card really does work like any other flash card and doesn't need any special support from the devices you intend to use with it as long as you check they are cf2 compatible not just cf. It has some disadvantages. As the disk technology is the same as a standard hard disk, i.e. its has a spinning disk of magnetic media inside it you will need to be careful that you don't subject it to too mcuh shock - e.g. if you drop it or bang it ... Read review

Advantages: Very small for Data Capacity, Fast Transfer Rate
Disadvantages: Drains Batteries, Moving parts

The best thing about this is that it’s cool, 4gb all in a thing an inch and a half wide! It’s amazing! The disadvantage to this, however, is the price, in comparison you’re getting 4gb for £179, for that price and only 2 ½ inches wider you could have nearly 300gb! But who cares? It’s small! This great little device works find in most card readers, and the transfer rate is astonishing, I use it for my mp3 player, and it transfers about 10 albums in ...
...I imagine it would be faster still on USB 2.0. The thing that worries me with these Microdrives is that they are mini-hard drives. This means that you have very small disks in there spinning very fast, and I’m sure that can’t be too much of a good idea. However, this hasn’t been a problem for me so far, I’ve not exactly treated mine extremely carefully, and once sort of there it on my desk while still in the card reader, and it still goes fine. ... Read review

Advantages: Maximizes the amount of data vs the cost of the product
Disadvantages: heat issues, cord connectivity, and small installation problems.

...but I honestly only order Maxtor for my hard drives. Now the only downside to the Maxtor 500 GB is that it is an external drive that, if not careful, can overheat and cause connectivity problems, transfer speed issues, or just annoyance from when the usb gets knocked out. That being said, if you can get past the downside of have an external I would recommend this product to anyone not using a Mac. The only reason I do not recommend this to Mac owners ... Read review

Advantages: memory, reliability, quality
Disadvantages: size, sound

...The Product - The Seagate pushbutton backup external hard drive 400 GB is a very sturdy and functional machine which gives more than good value for money (depending on the time you buy). Push button backup technology is fantastic although a little time consuming, the general idea is that a complete copy of your computer will be saved onto you external hard drive, if and when your computer messes things up (as will eventually be the case)then never ...
...and size is everything, the seagate hard drive has been designed to give the consumer what they want at a cheap affordable price (much to the buyers delight) setting up the external hard drive on you computer is just too easy, plug the mains in, connect the usb into your computer then press the power/backup button on the front of your hard drive and the job is well and trully a good un'. of course your computer will automatically detect your device, ... Read review

Advantages: Portable, easy to use, never failed on me yet!
Disadvantages: Perhaps only the disc size, but it has taken me 2 years to fill it!

Wester Digital, a respected brand name, and i agree! I have owned the unit now for around 2 years, and have 0 problems. My internal hard drive has died on me twice but my external one, never! This 80gb HDD is perfect for storing large files, home movies, photo albums, music etc. It's ideal when transfering data from one place to another, simply unplug it, plug it in elsehwre and hey presto! It supports drag & drop so moving files couldn't be easier. ...
...2.0 connection to your pc, mac, server etc. It is easily recognised by each operating system and i have yet to find one that doesn't support the unit. Plug it in, wait around 30secs and it's up and running. Can be stored horizontally, and if you have 3 like me, you can stack them perfectly, or store them vertically with the feet attahcments that come with the unit. Quick response time from pushing the ''On'' button which in itself gives off a nice ... Read review