I agree seagate is definitely more reliable, but this will do for now. it's just for portability. stevemb, can you show me any other 250gb 2.5" external drives for $150? I think you didn't catch that this is not a full sized drive, then the price would be too much.
I bought a 500gb Western Digital My Book drive for $169.99. It has external Power source and is USB 2.0 only. Does not include Firewire or SATA...But, capacity and price wise its a much better deal. In fact, you can get a 1TB version for only $349.99.
@SteveMB
They dont make the "worst" Hard drives out there. Sure they are not as good as Seagate but they certainly are not the worst. Thats a crazy ascertion. Why dont you backup your claim with some actual numbers proving its the worst before making idiotic blanket statements like that.
John, I guess you didn't get it. This is a 2.5" drive with no external power source. It's 1/4th the size of your external drive. Yes, it's more/gb, but has much better mobility. I also have an external 500gb drive I paid $120 for (you either bought earlier than me or got ripped off). That one stays firmly at home, but this drive goes with me everywhere. There's no way I'm going to travel with an external desktop drive that requires yet another brick of a power supply.
@ Jonyah I most certainly get it. If you want extreme portability and something to go in the pocket then you pay more. But capacity and price wise you can find better deals. If you got a newer WD 500gb mybook for $120.00 then you did a great job. Because I certainly couldnt find one that cheap and believe me I looked. Im not calling you a liar but I dont think you got a WD My Book. Im assuming you bought it off the web from some company that marked them down. I bought mine locally from Best Buy and I checked all the stores and best Buy had the best price. Now, Western Digital has an older model that not stable and is cheap like your talking. In fact they had a 1TB for $249.99. I have the newer edition My Book. I have no need to carry around a massive amount of files. So, for portability I simply use a 10gb Phillips Flash Drive.
Oh yeah that basicly proves you have an absolete external HD. My power supply is very small and is about the same size as my cell phones power adapter. Nothing close to a brick of a power supply.
ok, it's a small brick and yes it's a mybook, not that i'm proud of it. best buy had them on sale recently for $120. still it's much larger than it has to be and way too large to be portable in a laptop bag. if capacity is that mattered, why buy thumb drives?
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Jonyah @ Oct 30th 2007 11:17PM
um, i just bought the black 250gb for 150. That's an expensive paint job.
SteveMB @ Oct 30th 2007 11:22PM
$150 for 250GB? And it's Western Digital? Ouch.
John @ Oct 30th 2007 11:29PM
hopefully MOST of the markup is for the "undisclosed amount".
chris @ Oct 31st 2007 7:15AM
"And its western digital?" ??
-only one of the most reliable hd manufacturers ive ever used...
SteveMB @ Oct 31st 2007 7:45AM
Don't think so, chris. They make some of the worst hard drives out there. I do believe that Seagate is the superior hard drive manufacturer.
Jonyah @ Oct 31st 2007 8:25AM
I agree seagate is definitely more reliable, but this will do for now. it's just for portability. stevemb, can you show me any other 250gb 2.5" external drives for $150? I think you didn't catch that this is not a full sized drive, then the price would be too much.
John M @ Oct 31st 2007 1:01PM
@Jonyah,
I bought a 500gb Western Digital My Book drive for $169.99. It has external Power source and is USB 2.0 only. Does not include Firewire or SATA...But, capacity and price wise its a much better deal. In fact, you can get a 1TB version for only $349.99.
@SteveMB
They dont make the "worst" Hard drives out there. Sure they are not as good as Seagate but they certainly are not the worst. Thats a crazy ascertion. Why dont you backup your claim with some actual numbers proving its the worst before making idiotic blanket statements like that.
Jonyah @ Oct 31st 2007 1:31PM
John, I guess you didn't get it. This is a 2.5" drive with no external power source. It's 1/4th the size of your external drive. Yes, it's more/gb, but has much better mobility. I also have an external 500gb drive I paid $120 for (you either bought earlier than me or got ripped off). That one stays firmly at home, but this drive goes with me everywhere. There's no way I'm going to travel with an external desktop drive that requires yet another brick of a power supply.
John M @ Oct 31st 2007 1:54PM
@ Jonyah
I most certainly get it. If you want extreme portability and something to go in the pocket then you pay more. But capacity and price wise you can find better deals. If you got a newer WD 500gb mybook for $120.00 then you did a great job. Because I certainly couldnt find one that cheap and believe me I looked. Im not calling you a liar but I dont think you got a WD My Book. Im assuming you bought it off the web from some company that marked them down. I bought mine locally from Best Buy and I checked all the stores and best Buy had the best price. Now, Western Digital has an older model that not stable and is cheap like your talking. In fact they had a 1TB for $249.99. I have the newer edition My Book. I have no need to carry around a massive amount of files. So, for portability I simply use a 10gb Phillips Flash Drive.
John M @ Oct 31st 2007 1:57PM
@Jonyah
Oh yeah that basicly proves you have an absolete external HD. My power supply is very small and is about the same size as my cell phones power adapter. Nothing close to a brick of a power supply.
Jonyah @ Oct 31st 2007 2:25PM
ok, it's a small brick and yes it's a mybook, not that i'm proud of it. best buy had them on sale recently for $120. still it's much larger than it has to be and way too large to be portable in a laptop bag. if capacity is that mattered, why buy thumb drives?