Advantages: fair amount of storage space for price
Disadvantages: Can be a bit noisey at times

...with 80gb Hard drives being the norm in most entry level pc's the price of the 160gb hdd is dropping. If you are looking for a reliable Hard drive for storage of MP3s, video or even gameing then the 160gb will be up your street. The space on the Drive makes it ideal of an entry level "pvr" system. I am currently using one of these as a secondary drive. I have so far managed to record 8hrs of tv to it at decent quality and still have plenty of space left..... The drive Is sata 150 with 8mb cache and 7200rpm spindle. This enables faster reading and writing to the drive. You will need to have a System Board that supports sata 150 or purchase a sata pci card if you want to run the drive in an older machine. You can buy a convetor which will enable you to plug the drive into a normal 40 pin IDE port. Ther is a warning to this though... Read review

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Advantages: Very Fast, reliable,
Disadvantages: None

...One of the best Hard Drive makers in the business. I have never had any problems with this make of Hard Drive since I have been using them. Have fitted this make of Hard Drive in nearly every machine I have built for my self and for my customers for around the last six years and don’t think I have had one returned to me that is not working. Have tried all the other makes of Hard Drives and have had problems in one way or another with them except the Seagate drives.... Read review

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Advantages: Very fast, quiet and sleek design
Disadvantages: Could have a bigger capacity

...This external hard drive is perfect for anyone that owns a laptop, although it can also be connected to a PC. Looks The looks of this hard drive is minimalistic yet looks modern and sleek with an orange light on the front that glows when in operation. The size of the hard drive is very small, hence being perfect for laptop users as it can easily fit into a laptop bag. The hard drive also makes no sound what-so-ever. Using the Hard Drive It is a very easy component to use. All that you need to do is plug it in to your laptop of PC through the USB connector. The USB connector has a data+power cable and a secondary power cable for USB ports that cant supply enough power through the single port. This hard drive only has 120 gb worth of space but it is possible to get upto 160gb if 120gb is too small. Also if the 120gb hard... Read review

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Advantages: HaLoads of storage space
Disadvantages: Annoying blue light

...the information on two hard drives for a friend so he could put all his files on his new computer without having to burn them all onto discs. I think this is very cheap considering that it cost the same price as 160 GB Hard Drive of EBay and with 164 GB of free space still I should imagine that I will not need another hard drive for quite some time now Further Information: Go to www. Iomega.com Thanks for reading... Read review

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Advantages: simple easy to use
Disadvantages: movies and gaming

...of the inspiron that you know dell have got an amazingly designed laptop. It features a Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 / 1.66 Ghz processor that runs the 1gb of installed ram inside, also this 1 gb of ram can be upgraded to a maximum of 4gb. This is great for those users who want something a little quicker, and I find that after a while your laptop becomes slower, then you may want to add an extra gb of ram I=to increase the speed and it really does work too. It was great to see this laptop has a 160 gb hard drive, because most laptops with 1gb of ram only have 80 gb or 120 gb or hard drive. 160 gb of hard drive is more than enough for anyone really and even if you do need more storage, you could always buy an external hard drive and plug it into any 1 of the 4 hi-speed usb ports. Forget about the 5 in 1 card readers, now you have a fantastic 8 in one card... Read review

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Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s
Disadvantages: Little noisy

...Product Description Hitachi DeskStar T7K250 - hard drive - 160 GB - SATA II Type Hard drive - internal Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H Dimensions (WxDxH) 10.2 cm x 14.6 cm x 2.5 cm Weight 0.6 kg Capacity 160 GB Interface Type Serial ATA II Connector 22-position Serial ATA (SATA) plug Data Transfer Rate 300 MBps Average Seek Time 8.5 ms Spindle Speed 7200 rpm Buffer Size 8 MB This is one of the cheapest SATA 300Gb/s capable hard disk available in this capacity range. The hard disk has a SATA interface, regular 12v power connector, and also a SATA power interface. If your computer has the new SATA power connectors, you could use them... Read review

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Advantages: Plug and Play, Really Fast Doesn't Overheat
Disadvantages: Nothing =D

...Freecom External 3.5" 160GB Hard Drive I first got the Freecom external hard 160GB hard drive when my internal one on my computer started to get clogged up with applications and other junk. So I decided to go and buy a Freecom external hard drive which is 160 Gigabytes in size. Since this hard drive is external, it does have to look good and not look like a tack bit of plastic with wires hanging out of it. With Freecom though, performance and design is everything. The hard drive enclosure itself is made of high quality, heat absorbing aluminium which is 20 x 11.5 x 4.5 cm ( or 7.9 x 4.5 x 1.6 inches ) in size. On the front of the hard drive enclosure is a storage LED indicator and on the back there is one ' rocker' power on/off switch, a usb port and a power adapter port. This hard drive has been givin five awards including... Read review

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Advantages: High capacity, Low price, high speed transfer
Disadvantages: No fan, so heating up occurs.

...I bought this hard drive just over a week ago - it's served me very well, and i've been surprised. It's labelled as a portable hard drive - and this is what it is. It's roughly the same size as the average hardback book, and is not much heavier. It's made of an attractive grey material with a silver front, with a tiny little '160GB' light, that illuminates when then hard drive is on. It's not too large, and only has a small on/off switch on the back, and the port for powering it from AC (an adapter is included), and a USB2.0 socket. The hard drive comes with all the right software - its ready to use straight out of the box, just plug in and go. Once plugged in, it appears as an external drive - and you can just drag and drop all of the necessary files onto it. I put all of my music and videos (about 70Gb) onto the drive straight... Read review

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Advantages: Extremely Reliable
Disadvantages: A little noisy, but you'd need a decimeter to prove it!

...The Hitachi 160GB (SATA Version) is truly an exceptional drive. Whereas Maxtor are known for their low prices and Western Digital for their performance, Hitachi have truly captured the market as a result of the reliability of their products. And so it is with the 160GB Hard Drive. As far as hard drives go, it's pretty standard. It installs the same way, works the same way, even looks the same way, unless you count the different logo. I personally have 2 of these drives, having bought them as a replacement for my previous Maxtor drives, after one o them failed irrecoverably and the other failed but did not have guarenteed reliability. I have found that the Hitachi drive is slightly noisier than the Maxtor, although this is only really noticeable if you are lyying next to your case with it lying open, and even then only on bootup... Read review

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Advantages: very fast
Disadvantages: none, really!!

...travelmate 7512's hard drive space. They probably upgraded this to 160 GB because 80 GB wasn't really enough for most people. However I must say iv never been able to fill any laptop of mine with over 160 GB of data, however there may also be people out there who'll go through 160gb easily. If you do need more storage, you can easily use memory cards by pushing them into the laptops 5 in 1 card reader, which reads any of, SD Memory Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MultiMediaCard, xD-Picture Cards. Also you can easily burn data onto disks using the travelmates DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM - integrated compact disk player, and burner. Its great to see this acer has a 17 inch screen too, seen as a lot of other acers only had 15.2 inch screens. Another extra feature this laptop has is its built in webcam. This webcams only 0.3 mega pixels... Read review

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