Advantages: fast, high capacity, looks good, reliable, easy to use Disadvantages: it makes my other drives look bad
There comes a time when you need to get an external hard drive, after all there is a limit to how many internal ones you can attach to a motherboard (varies, normally about 3).
I personally use a lot of drive space, going into the terabytes, so every now and then I have to attach a new external HD. This time I bought this one, and I am quite happy with it.
An important feature that the DriveStation fulfills is that it looks nice. Its more important ... ...impressions - and the first impression I got from this was professional and ruthlessly efficient.
The 500GB is generous considering it only cost me £100 or so, which is pretty damn good for external drives. 500GB will last me a good couple of months, then I reckon I will go and buy myself another of these beasts, my computer area will look like an industrial server zone!
I did actually buy this drive expecting to have to install some software and ...
AJRAD 13.06.2007
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Advantages: Uses 75 percent less energy than standard drivers. Disadvantages: Takes long to detect on computer
I just bought one of these from Argos for around 53.79 quid and it is a great product. If you buy this from Argos you get a free 2 gb flash pen that will probably come handy some day. The reasons for why i think this product is very good is because it does exactly what it says AND it uses 75 percent less power than standard drivers which is really good if you pay high electric bills. The design of this product is nice and stylish, looks nice, neat ... ...about this is that as soon as you plug it in it turns on, so there's no pressing any switches at the back. The only problems i have with this is that my computer takes a really long time to detect the drive (usually 7-8 minutes) and i have a usb 2 port aswell. ...
M3MONSTER 22.03.2009
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