StorageTek SCSI external cable

Advantages: Very portable, Easy to Use
Disadvantages: Extra plug socket needed

...Having two seperate office locations, my company got fed up of having to burn CD's to transfer large amounts of data from one place to another. This worked out OK for a while, but with a CD only being able to store up to 700MB, we were spending quite a lot of time burning the disks, so an external HDD was in order. We had used external SCSI disks in the past, but there were a few disadvantages involved, namely having to physically shut the computer down to remove the device and then having to shut down the second machine to attach the disk at the second place. The price for SCSI disks are still a bit expensive as well. We got hold of this external drive, and our work methods were transformed overnight. No more restarting machines or burning cd's, just plug it in and copy as if it was an internal disk. Installation was very... Read review

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Advantages: nothing comes to mind
Disadvantages: no raw writing, questionable reliability record

...I had this as a replacment to a faulty 4260 model. It looks much the same and feels the same but reading is 16x instead of 6x and writing is twice as fast for CDRW CDs at 4x. Normal CDRs remain at 4x writing. The drive does everything it claims to do and seems less fussy over CDRs than the 4260. It doesn't do raw writing but does happily work with 80min cdrs and overburning. It has a built in fan which I'm sure is beneficial compared to the 4260 which didn't. I had some problems configuring it but this is probably more to do with scsi than anything else. I personally would have prefered the old style scsi large connectors on the external case, they seem to make better contact and are more robust but this case has the more flimsy 50pin high denisty scsi 2 type connectors. I've yet to see it do CDRW CDs at 4x as I think most of the ones I... Read review

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Advantages: Durable; Brand name; Reliable
Disadvantages: Relatively expensive; Overkill for a 56k connection

...Cables are heavily underrated. Everyone always thinks their computer will run faster if they upgrade their hardware or OS, but the humble cable almost always gets ignored. So, Belkin came up with this 'high speed' premium cable to help convince people that they need a new cable to make their lives complete, or rather, make their internet connection 'as fast as a speeding bullet'. The Internet Modem cable, unsurprisingly, is used to connect your modem, be it internal or external, to your standard BT wall outlet. On one end you have the typical RJ-11 plug, and on the other, a BT plug has already been connected. This means you don't have to go out and buy any converters. The RJ-11 plug is of similar style to some of Belkin's RJ-45 plugs, with tabs protruding up the sides to prevent you from accidentally disconnecting the plug from its... Read review

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