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I bought this from Maplins at the end of 2007 as I have a huge amount of music to store and I just didn't feel comfortable saving it on my laptop as it would slow it down too much and might even fill up the laptop memory. I originally set out to get the 1TB option (1000 GB) but it was out of stock. Being as impatient as I am I bought the next best thing, the 750 GB.
On opneing the box, everything was clear. There was the power cable (with UK and European plug adaptors), the USB cable, instruction booklet and the external drive itself. So far, so good. I plugged it all in and switched it on. The installation software is built into the drive and it took a few minutes for everything to be installed onto my computer and for it to be ready to use. I started by copying a few folders at a time as a slow introduction but once I became confident of its abilities I started copying larger amounts over.
I have quite a bit of music and photos stored on my work computer and it made sense to transfer them onto my drive so that everything ws backed up in one place. In one go I transferred 8GB of files from my work computer to my external drive. It took a while to do but there was no problems in doing it at all.
I currently have almost 400GB of files (music, photos and office documents) and I never have any problems or delays in accessing data. All I need to do now is plug it into my laptop and I'm off, it automatically loads everything and I have instant access to my files on the external drive. You also have the option to set is so that the external drive automatically saves everything from your computer and makes back-up copies. I haven't used that feature but it is a good one to have surely.
The drive itself is pretty sleek, black with curved sides. Its fairly small and easily stored away on a shelf or in a drawer. It also has a nice white light which flashes when it is switched on.
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Feb 19th, 2009
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