Stylish brushed aluminum outers enclose high speeds and capacities suitable for almost any purpose. Use Firestorm hard drives to increase your file storage capacity; as a file... more
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Stylish Aluminum Outer Casings That Are Lightweight Yet Strong. Simply Plug A Unit In And Enjoy The Luxury Of High Speed Data Storage For Music, Video, Documents, Spreadsheets And Any Other Data! Firestorm External Hard Drives Are Supplied With Emc's Award Winning Retrospect Express Backup And Disaster Recovery Software, Providing Proven Data Protection Capabilities In An Easy-To-Use Software Package. Designed For Safety And Security, Retrospect Express Protects Your Desktop Or Notebook Against Loss Due To Viruses, User Error, Damaged Hardware, Hackers, Or Even Lost Or Stolen Computers.Retrospect's Patented Progressive Backup Saves Time By Backing Up Only New Or Edited Files After The First Full Backup, Whilst Automated Grooming Of Older Backup Data Ensures That Backups Fit Within The Allotted Disk Space. Retrospect Express Performs Accurate Restores Without Bringing Back Unwanted Files And Folders That Were Previously Deleted, Renamed, Or Moved, Avoiding Confusion And Potential Costly Mistakes. Not Only Does Retrospect Express Provide Fast Backups, But It Is Also Easy For All To Use And Offers Protection In The Form Of Data Encryption. In Addition To Emc's Retrospect Express, Firestorm Units Are Supplied With Hdderase Disk Sanitization Software, And Truecrypt 256Bit Aes Encryption Software To Ensure Your Data Is Not Only Safe, But 100% Secure. Hypertec Firestorm Drives Are Also Available In 2.5" And 3.5" (Single Or Dual) Form Factors, From 80Gb Up To 2Tb, With A Choice Of Usb2.0 Or Esata Connectivity.
Compliant Standards: Plug and Play, CE, FCC, RoHS, WEEE
Power
Power Source: Included AC adapter
Power Device: Power adapter
Manufacturer's product description
Stylish brushed aluminum outers enclose high speeds and capacities suitable for almost any purpose. Use Firestorm hard drives to increase your file storage capacity; as a file transfer system; as a shared storage drive; or as a cache to store a specific set of data. The aluminum case is attractive, lightweight but strong, with good heat dissipation. The Firestorm Notebook unit is a USB 2.0 Plug & Play Hard Drive employing 3.5" IDE HD Technology. Power is supplied via a compact, fully approved, AC adapter (supplied).
Software / system requirements
Software Included: Drivers & Utilities, TrueCrypt
OS Required: Apple MacOS 9.x, Apple MacOS X or later, Linux 2.4.1 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista / 2000 / XP
System Requirements Details:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista - Pentium II - 350 MHz - RAM 32 MB
Linux - Pentium II - 350 MHz - RAM 32 MB
MacOS - PowerPC G3 - RAM 32 MB
MacOS - Intel multi-core proccessor - RAM 32 MB
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 3 years warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 3 years
Advantages: Stylish, Very Quiet, Ease of Use Disadvantages: None
...This stylish harddrive from Western Digital is one of the simplest electronic things I have bought in years. Just plug it into your USB port, and it does every thing for you, no installing drives off CD's, which on some things I have experienced, can be very time consuming. It is also surprisingly quiet and very stylish and with 320Gb of space theres enough room for thousands of your pictures and music files. This also comes with a Fire Wire cable so transfer of your files is almost instantaneous. The cost is a little higher compared to some of its competitiors, I got mine for £99 from Amazon, but is well worthy of the price tag. I can promise, you wont be disappointed....
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Advantages: Huge memory Disadvantages: Some of Toshiba's external hard drives have a separate power cable
...I recently bought a Toshiba 320gb extrenal harddrive off ebay to store my mp3's, movies, documents etc.
The capacity of the drive is awesome. 320gb is almost too big. It was easy to install and I had it going within minutes.
The downfall of the harddrive I purchased, is that it is big, it is an eye sore, and it does not connect to your PC/laptop via usb. It has a separate power cable.
My advice would be to buy a smaller capcity harddrive which connect via usb. 320gb is far too much unless you have endless amounts of files.
For £90, it does what it says on the tin. However, DO NOT pay over £90 for a Toshiba harddrive!...
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Advantages: Fast except multithread read,good capacity, stable, 5 years warranty Disadvantages: Weak at multithread/multiple reads, a little noisy
...I've used a similar model for a long time and I have mixed opinions about 7200.10 harddrives.
The good things of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Seagate hdd are the most stables drives in the market, I've used my drive for quite a time and never experienced a single problem.
Large capacity, 320GB is more than enough (300 Gb real)
Good speed, especially at writing data, but also at reading excepting multiple file copy. Speed is about 75-80 Mb at large files
The access time is about 13-14ms (about the same as other hdd)
Temperature IS OK.
Very stable and reliable
The not so good things:
Multitasking read performance. While on single thread the performance is high, 75 Mb, while increasing the threads, many aplications used the speed drops at about 5-10 Mb
A little noisy especially when many aplications are used
Conclusion. Good harddrive...
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What with all the videos and photos I had on my mac, I needed some good back up storage. I was recommended to go for the something in the Lacie range. For me the d2 Quadra 320gb was an excellent choice. It won't lose data the way some of the ones with more
For a few months now I have been having trouble with hard drive space on my computer, as well as a couple of major system failures that resulted in alot of stuff being wiped off my machine. For this reason I decided to invest in an external hard drive,... more
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