Hewlett Packard takes great care of its customers and supplies them will a wide range of accessories needed today and tomorrow to satisfy most sophisticated needs. This pack of... more
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Hewlett Packard takes great care of its customers and supplies them will a wide range of accessories needed today and tomorrow to satisfy most sophisticated needs. This pack of five 3.5-inch hard disk mount trays supports a full range of standard hard disks. The kit includes mounting instructions.
Advantages: Large and fast removable storage. Disadvantages: Can get a bit warm during operation.
...to unplug the drive each time I simply wanted to turn it off, just because there wasn't a switch on the back!
"Whisper quiet operation" - it is pretty quiet and certainly a lot quieter than the average PC, so you never really notice noise from it.
A stand is included so you can mount the drive on its side to take up less space.
I don't know if this is common for external drives, but this drive can be set to power down after a period of inactivity like an internal hard disk. (The default is 60 mins, but can be changed).
**Getting Hot Hot Hot... well, quite warm anyhow:**
The drive enclosure is made from a pretty solid piece of aluminium which I'm sure must help to dissipate the heat created by the harddrive, but still it can get quite warm to the touch. I've personally mounted a cpu fan+heatsink on the drive enclosure (connected...
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Advantages: fast,simple,easy,good price Disadvantages: none so far
...A floppy disk has been standard on a PC for years. It was a fast, easy and efficient way of transferring and storing data. The 1.44mb capacity meant you could save those important MS Word documents to disk, so that you couldn’t lose them. Now what happened to the floppy disk? Maybe it was reliability? The life span of a disk? The size? Well consider this, as PC’s have moved on so far, a floppy disk basically cannot cope. They only store 1 and a half MB, which to the average PC user, is about 0.0075 percent of their entire computer’s HardDrive. What I am trying to say there is literally not enough room for all your work. Imagine bringing home those holiday snapshots, to show your family on a disk, well the chances are that only about 7 or 8 of them will fit on the disk.
But obviously there is the technology of CD...
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Advantages: Plug and Play, Really Fast Doesn't Overheat Disadvantages: Nothing =D
...of kit for £64.99 out of argos but i'm sure you can get it much cheaper somewhere else.
---Specifications---
General
* Compatibility: PC, Mac
* Device Type: Harddrive - external
* Enclosure Colour: Silver
* Depth: 20 cm
* Height: 4 cm
* Width: 11.5 cm
* Weight: 0.8 kg
Environmental Parameters
* Max Operating Temperature: 60 °C
* Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Expansion / Connectivity
* Interfaces: 1 x Hi-Speed USB
HardDrive
* Buffer Size: 2 MB
* Capacity: 160 GB
* Form Factor: 3.5"
* Interface Type: Hi-Speed USB
Manufacturer Warranty
* Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 2 years
* Service & Support: 2 years warranty
Performance
* Average Latency: 4.2 ms
* Interface Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps
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i had a freecom external hard drive i was looking for another external hard drive
So i went to pc world and saw the toshiba it was much cheaper
nice bit of Kit but it failed after 3 months so i lost all my backup i e mailed toshiba found them not... more