Got a Floppy Disk?

Advantages: Quick, Easy, Reliable, Small, Fits into any pocket or bag
Disadvantages: Faded out use lately

...I originally bought this external floppy drive a few years ago after the standard for laptops was not to have an inbuilt floppy drive already in them however at the time floppy disks were still in use from time to time. It doesn't mean that this can't be used for desktop computers that don't have internal floppy drives. Power ********* Usually when having an external device like an external hard drive or optical drive you would usually need more than one lead. It would usually be a cable for the power into a power socket in the wall and a separate cable to send and receive data between the device and the computer however with this external floppy drive it has completely changed. Now all that is need with this floppy drive is simply just one USB cable with a mini USB connected to the drive making it quick and easy to use when your...

burns2007 12.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Freecom Floppy disk drive 1.44 MB

SanDisk's answer to an iPod Alternative

Advantages: Good battery life, good playback, easy navigation, nice design, MicroSD slot
Disadvantages: Wheel is a bit cheap and tacky

...INTRO I bought myself a SanDisk Sansa View (16GB version) because I found my previous MP3 / Video player a bit too bulky and heavy (Creative Zen Vision M 60GB) to carry around. I figured I was hardly using any of the storage anyway so thought a 16GB alternative would suffice. I didn?t want to be tied into iTunes to transfer music to the device so an Apple iPod was out of the question. This one cost me £103 from Amazon. The Sansa View comes in 8GB, 16GB and 32GBcapacities. All have a MicroSD memory card slot so you could add some more memory should the need arise. Not sure if it supports cards of more than 8GB though. It has a good amount of storage without the memory upgrade, which can be used for music, videos and any other file with maybe a size restriction of up to 4GB due to the file system (the format the drive is...

Deru 22.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sandisk Sansa VIEW

SanDisk Sansa Fuze

Advantages: Good quality sound, nice design, cheap
Disadvantages: dull plastic cover, plain menu

...Product description The SanDisk Sansa Fuze is a good quality mp3 player with built in FM radio, photo viewer and video playback. It is simiilar in design to an iPod but is a much more affordable player. The Design This is quite a small mps player as it measures around 3 inches long by 2 inches wide. It isn't as thin as some though and is around a third of an inch thick. The fact that the width is two thirds of the length gives it a bit of a fat oval look that may out some people off. However, It fits comfortably in your hand and feels more "solid" than some of the thinner, smaller mp3's available. A main design point that stands out is the clickable, scroll wheel. These are appearing on many cheap iPod rip offs and used to be put me off because they made them look cheap and unreliable. This is not the case with the Fuze...

joe-survey 18.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4GB

Great capacity hard disk for the price, stylish and simple too.

Advantages: Great Value, very reliable
Disadvantages: Short cables, and shows up fingerprints

...I purchased the LaCie 1TB as my first external hard drive, about 6 months ago. I wasn't sure how much space I would be needing, but as the LaCie was on offer for £75 for 1TB I couldn't really resist. The promotional literature for this Hard disk seems to keep reminding us that it was designed by Neil Poulton, someone who I'm not aware of, but must be pretty good judging by the design of this product. It is rare when talking about an external hard drive that style is a talking point, but in this case it is. It's a sleek black elegant looking case, very very shiny. At the front there is a small strip of blue light that activates whenever the hard drive is turned on, everything else it on the panel at the back (on switch, connectors and vent) making the device very uncluttered and minimalist. What I will say though, is it would probably...

salmonchaplin 14.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of LaCie Hard Disk Design by Neil Poulton Hard drive 1 TB

**This Micro is ScanDisk's Cruzer**

Advantages: storage - 4GB -
Disadvantages: awkward shape when in pocket

...**SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive -- 4GB** -- USB Flash Drive 4GB -- U3 Technology enabled (software installer supplied) Follow on-screen instructions for installation *Summary* SanDisk, is known for having the world's highest volumn as in (sales) for data storage. -- No other data storage business has the retail portfolio that SanDisk has. They are based in California and boasts to be the first company to announce the introduction of the USB Flash Drive. They provide storage and multimedia solutions for the home and small business environments. ScanDisk in 2005, went public in the US. In 2006, their revenue was 3.3 Billion US Dollars. Their site is: www.sandisk.com Two years ago the company founded by Dr. Eli Harari in 1988; hit on the world's smallest memory card; The memory Keys were to be exported to over 200...

1st2thebar 19.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of SanDisk Cruzer Micro - USB flash drive - 4 GB

SanDisk Clip... a great little mp3 player!

Advantages: Easy to use, reasonably priced
Disadvantages: Bad quality headohones

...I brought the SanDisk Sansa Clip 2gb black about 3 months ago from Amazon for £34.99 including postage and packaging. Its is very small, just 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. It has a small display screen at the top, with blue and yellow text. The lower half of the device has a dial with play, pause, fast forward, rewind and stop. The volume controls and on/off and hold buttons are on the side. It came in a box with the mp3 player, headphones, pc connecting cable and instructions. I shopped around before buying as I wanted a small mp3 player, but didn't want to spend too much money. I considered the i pod shuffle, but decided against it as I didn't like the fact it had no screen. This is what attracted me to the SanDisk, and the fact that it is so easy to use. It has 2gb memory, I have put quite a lot of music on it...

Wilko1981 29.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of SanDisk Sansa Clip 2 GB

The Big Hard Disk With The Big Heart

Advantages: Fast, Reliable, Huge Data Capacity
Disadvantages: Expensive

...What Is It The LaCie Big Disk Extreme + 1 TB is a Hard Disk suitable for Macs and Windows. It is for backing up any type of data from your computer like Photos, Movies, Music, Documents anything. Why Buy It I decided to buy this after reading another review from a magazine called iCreate which specialises in products suitable for Apple Macs. I bought before a hard disk by another brand but found it was only avalible for Windows so had to send it back. This is suitable for Windows XP/Vista/2000 And Mac OSX 10.8 or later which is very handy. What Does 1 TB Extreme Mean? I TB means 1 terabyte. This basically is ALOT of memory. 1 TB is 1024 GB which is the equivelent of- *270,000 songs (roughly) *472 Hours of film (Non stop!) *3.2 Million pictures (again roughly) *1,000 copies of Encyclopedia Britannica I...

scotlandizdabest 14.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple 1 TB

Sandisk 8GB micro SD card

Advantages: Large memory capacity, durable for its size, very reliable
Disadvantages: None really apart from it being quite small

...The Sandisk Micro-SDHC Secure Digital 8192 MB (8 GB) memory card is known as an SD micro card, basically because SD memory cards are the smallest you can currently purchase. It measures in at 15mm x 11mm and comes with an adapter when you purchase the card. The Micro SD card format is used mainly for mobile phones, because of the sheer size and the cards ability to hold huge amounts of data. Although, mainly built for mobile phone use, SD micro cards like the Sandisk Micro SD 8 GB can be used in devices such as hand-held GPS devices, portable audio players, video game consoles and numerous other devices. With the 8 GB of storage space, you can hold thousands of songs (approximately 2000), thousands of photos as well as hundreds of videos and other files. When you purchase the 8GB SD micro memory card you get an adapter with it...

yassarikhan786 03.05.2008 (04.05.2008) · Read review
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Review of Sandisk Micro-SDHC Secure Digital 8192 MB

Lacie Desktop Hard Disk 320 GB

Advantages: Does what it says on the tin.
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...During my final year of uni, this little gem turned out to be a Godsend. Doing a course which required a lot of camera work, I needed somewhere to store all the raw footage, which anyone who's ever worked with footage from a high quality video camera knows, takes up a hell of a lot of space. So I needed somewhere to keep it locked away safely to take around from uni computer to uni computer. My weapon of choice for an external hard drive was the Lacie Desktop Hard Disk 320 GB. Having brought it online for just under £50, that instantly stuck me as a bargain. Purchased approximately 18 months ago, that was a steal. Naturally, with the passing of time and the increasing availability of external hard drives, the price of this items has began to fall, as is the case with all types of technology. Once plugged in and inserted into a USB...

carl.mcqueen 28.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of LaCie Desktop Hard Disk 320 GB

Disk Director or Disk Destroyer-

Advantages: Cheap to buy, easy to use
Disadvantages: None

...REASONS At work I have a test PC which I need to use to load up software. When I do this I need to have plenty of free space to allow me to load new software. I found the other day that I had run out and rather than keep moving things to other PC drives I decided to make more space. I had two options. One was to reinstall the entire computer and the other to fins a disk partitioning program. The first option would take days to complete so I ended up on the Acronis website downloading Disk Director. So Acronis claim their program can add space, remove space etc from existing partitions or drives without effecting your data. PURCHASE At $49 ex VAT this is a good price for a program. The initial trial looked good but as usual let me attempt to configure everything but right at the end send I had to purchase to make my changes...

skrg28 12.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 Licence