Primary Toshiba Solution Hard drive 60 GB

Advantages: Great invention, reasonable price, large capacity
Disadvantages: Bulky, noisy

...is approx. 3.5 inches in height, 10 inches across and 3.5 inches deep. When it is running it is also has quite a loud buzzing noise, which can be quite tedious. The hard drive has 120GB and can store approx. 2,000 hours of digital music, 38,400 digital photos, 120 hours of digital video or 60 PC games. You are able to store digtal photos, videos, music, DVD's, Business Documents and Emails on the hard drive. The hard drive has a 7200-RPM spin speed and a 2-MB cache buffer, BounceBack Express software for fast and easy back up, built-in self-monitoring technology and is also compatible with Windows and Macintosh platforms. I have found this hard drive really useful, no longer does my laptop get filled up, it also runs faster. I am able to store all large documents/music/games on the external hard drive which prevents the slow... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Competitive Price
Disadvantages: The unit I received was faulty

...I purchased a Freecom External Hard Drive 500GB from Amazon and it arrived one week later. The box was opened and inside was the drive unit along with the installation disk for Personal Media Suite and Backup utility, USB cable and power cable. So far so good. The software was installed and the unit connected and powered up. Unfortunately the Personal Media Suite did not recognise the device but Windows (XP) did. A few files were copied as a test and they seemed to work. I uninstalled the software and re-installed again but the device was still not found. And then Windows no longer recognised the unit part way through a copy. Ahh. - refering to the online documentation - it suggested that the device be disconnected and re-connected again. So followed their advice but no difference. Fortunately amongst the documentation... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Large and fast removable storage.
Disadvantages: Can get a bit warm during operation.

...I've owned this drive for a few months now. I bought it because I needed a large amount of storage space but didn't need access to the data all the time. **Size and Speed:** This "250 GB" drive gives 233 GB of space once formatted. This isn't the largest model on the market; there was a 300 GB model too, but that one only had 2 MB of cache and spins at 5400 rpm, compared to the 8 MB and 7200 rpm spin rate of this drive. This extra speed generally helps files to be accessed faster - I've played plenty of games from this hard disk and compared to my internal hard drive (7200 rpm, ATA100) it's not all that much slower at loading. **Connections:** The great thing about this drive is that it has both USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backward compatible) and IEE1394 "Firewire" connection options. Since my computer is somewhat old and only had USB 1... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful