Portable External Hard Drive

[erkishhorde]

I talked to a guy that works with WD at a skillz day I went to. Yeah, I know he's biased but he said Seagate stuff is shit and WD is coming out with some good stuff soon.

I myself usually go with Seagate but I've been having them die on me prematurely a lot recently.  Not like 6mo premature. More like 4 years premature (5 year warranty).

[NAKID]

These are great and all, but does anyone have any insight on portable USB powered drives?

[somegirl]

These are great and all, but does anyone have any insight on portable USB powered drives?

That's what I was referring to, a Seagate USB-powered drive.

[Pakhan]

These are great and all, but does anyone have any insight on portable USB powered drives?

This is an old external USB/ SCSI case I have.  I use it for older drives and can change them out easily.  It's about 4-5 years old and never had an issue.  A lot of cases like this are just the case when you purchase and you'll have to get the HD separately.

[NAKID]

Right, but that requires an external power source. I would like one powered throught the USB port...

[Pakhan]

Right, but that requires an external power source. I would like one powered throught the USB port...

[NAKID]

Haha, looking for several hundred GB at the minimum. What's the max on thumb drives now, 16GB?

[Cicero]

Haha, looking for several hundred GB at the minimum. What's the max on thumb drives now, 16GB?

try squaring that number


http://www.physorg.com/news167461888.html

[cyrus buelton]

I am not really sure of the point of a high capacity USB powered drive.


My powered drives are always stationary, so a USB on would be worthless.



I guess everyone has different needs, but a 32gb jump drive is all I need to quickly move stuff around.

[NAKID]

try squaring that number


http://www.physorg.com/news167461888.html

Holy Crap!

I am not really sure of the point of a high capacity USB powered drive.


My powered drives are always stationary, so a USB on would be worthless.



I guess everyone has different needs, but a 32gb jump drive is all I need to quickly move stuff around.

Where I keep my laptop I have limited electrical outlets. Having another thing to plug in isn't really an option.

[erkishhorde]

My externals are all for storage too so I don't use the USB powered ones. Too much of a premium for a reduced size that I'm not actually using. How about a power bar + full size external with a power supply? Cheaper than the premium for a mini.

Where I keep my laptop I have limited electrical outlets. Having another thing to plug in isn't really an option.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have a preference between Seagate or Western Digital. One thing that guy I met told me was that there aren't any mini HDDs that have 7200 rpm around 1TB in size. I think that's what he said. Something about too much power draw to get those rpms. Also, USB would be a bottleneck for those rpms I think.

[cyrus buelton]

The premium you pay is not worth it, IMO.

a 500gb USB powered HD is around 115$




I bought a Seagate 1.5TB on sale at MicroCenter for 120$.



Not hard to figure out what deal was better.

[derby]

The premium you pay is not worth it, IMO.

unless you carry it around w/ your laptop (like i do).

i have a 2TB external on my desktop and a 500GB firewire bus-powered drive that i carry in my backpack... wd passport studio, if ya wanted to know.

[ab]

G-technology and Lacie is what I use for some video work for about 3 years.  Size is too small now and need to get lots more hard drive to work on some HD projects.

If money was not an issue for video work RAID drive by Caldigit would have been awesome.  Caldigit-mini  would be a dream.  Oh well.

[Pakhan]

If you have a tower at home with lots of memory and your laptop has internet you can always connect to it with FTP software, then you don't need an outlet or to carry around any cumbersome drives.