I received this hard drive for Christmas last year and I've been using it as a time machine for my MacBook.
It sits in my bookshelf about 45cm away from my laptop, and in my opinion it looks quite nice between hardback books.
When I plug it in there is no waiting for it to 'warm up' like ... Read review
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Advantages: Fast, Easy to Install, Quite cheap. Disadvantages: Slightly Noisy
...as a time machine for my MacBook.
It sits in my bookshelf about 45cm away from my laptop, and in my opinion it looks quite nice between hardback books.
When I plug it in there is no waiting for it to 'warm up' like there was with my old external hard drive.
500gb is enough for backing up my whole laptop, and for Mac users it is great for Time Machine, because there is easily enough space for backing ... ...just literally plugged it into my Mac and it asked me if I wanted to use it for Time Machine, and it immediately started backing up. For Windows users it is just as easy, you just plug it in and it recognises it, no drivers needed.
The only problem I have with it is that when it backs up, especially when there is a lot to back up, it makes a bit of noise. It isn't extremely noisy, but it is enough to be an annoyance. However, I wouldn't ... more
I received this hard drive for Christmas last year and I've been using it as a time machine for my MacBook.
It sits in my bookshelf about 45cm away from my laptop, and in my opinion it looks quite nice between hardback books.
When I plug it in there is no waiting for it to 'warm up' like there was with my old external hard drive.
500gb is enough for backing up my whole laptop, and for Mac users it is great for Time Machine, because there is easily enough space for backing up everything you delete.
It was very easy to set up, I just literally plugged it into my Mac and it asked me if I wanted to use it for Time Machine, and it immediately started backing up. For Windows users it is just as easy, you just plug it in and it recognises it, no drivers needed.
The only problem I have with it is that when it backs up, especially when there is a lot to back up, it makes a bit of noise. It isn't extremely noisy, but it is enough to be an annoyance. However, I wouldn't say this was a reason not to buy this.
I have rated the Manufacturer Support as 'Good' because I have never actually had to call them, which is a good thing, but I couldn't say what they were like.
Advantages: small, lots of storage and really reliable Disadvantages: less portable than a small form hard disk drive, needs main to use
This is my second hard drive. The first one I bought was a sony vaio that I bought off of ebay - a portable 120GB hard disk drive from the far east. It started giving me disk read and write errors about three to four months after I bought it. Moral of the story, buy from a reputable manufacturer and seller.
So I bought this from Amazon co uk, who are by far a superior online seller. Prices have come down and i managed to get this for £60 including ... ...It needs to be plugged into mains as well as the computer which makes it less portable, but it is so quiet I can't even hear that is switched on even when it is writing or reading. I would highly recommend this product or even one of the bigger sized ones, though I couldn't afford the 1TB mybook.
Remember 500GB is marketing, actual approx 460GB ...
jupiter28 20.03.2008
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Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies. Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
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