john smith 1924 Veteran Posted March 14, 2005 Veteran Share Posted March 14, 2005 See it here; thoughts?! I personally found it a great bit of gear; i'd love to hear from other owners... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0m8er Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 (Y) excellent review, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffeee Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I exposed the unit to a few of my lethal blows Lmao, nicely said lol :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerzdawg Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 great review.. i would def pick this up if it wasnt for the $200 price tag... i have plenty of hd space 300+gb.. but the ease of carrying around my "data" would be great... if it drops to $150... ill pick one up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drone Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 Great review. Looks likes a piece of gear. The price doesn't look that bad considering its specifically designed to be moved around and take "lethal blows" :laugh: Plus its a Seagate, and I know from personal experience their HDs are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starjax Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 in this case seagate may have success. Primary reason for small hdd failures is physical failure (being dropped, banged up, ect) and Heat. Currently over the last quarter we have suffered 10% failure rate on laptops with seagate hdd's. Vendor stated that overall they had a 3% failure rate, which is normal. Now mind you I think the vendor could have designed a better laptop. When the seagates fail, they fail so completly you can't get data from them and have to send them off to data recovery. Now, like I said earlier, being an external drive and not subject to the same heat issues and housed in a rugged case this actually might be a viable alternative. 200 for a laptop hdd ins't to bad either. although for 200 I would espcect usb and firewire support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelsinho Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 simply excellent review, thanks and go Seagate (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeyondGodlike Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 strange i have a firelyte 40gig USB and it reads at 34 mb/sec and writes at 14 although the seagate just looks styleish as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utomo Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 What they need to build is not an ordinary portable disk. Better if they build something like this http://www.ximeta.com/products/network_drives/netdisk_mini/ Net Disk Mini This is with : Network Storage Connect NetDisk? Mini to any available Ethernet switch for instant network storage Powered by NDAS? (Network Direct Attached Storage) Technology so it is multi purpose device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nR. Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Nice review - i've got the HP Personal Media Drive HD1600, might do a review on it. :) Also - I have the same keyboard as you hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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