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I've been looking into buying a USB hard drive, but I wanted the opinion of some dic members. Specifically, I'm looking at a 128MB that is both USB and USB 2.0 compatable. I've looked at bestbuy.com, tigerdirect.com, and compusa.com, but haven't found much that I would want to invest my money in. Does anyone have a USB drive that you're happy with? If so, please let me know what brand it is. I appreciate it. Thanks.
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Re: Buying A Usb Hard Drive
Posted 30 April 2003 - 08:57 PM
before you go out and buy the newest uber leet thing (if you considor a usb drive leet 
) ask yourself if you really need one..
Surley a normal hard drive, would take up less space AND probablly cost less.. So why get a usb drive when you can purchase a normal one?
) ask yourself if you really need one..Surley a normal hard drive, would take up less space AND probablly cost less.. So why get a usb drive when you can purchase a normal one?
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Re: Buying A Usb Hard Drive
Posted 30 April 2003 - 11:32 PM
128MB???
Why not just go with compact flash or something, or did you mean 120gb? I'm confused!
Why not just go with compact flash or something, or did you mean 120gb? I'm confused!
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Re: Buying A Usb Hard Drive
Posted 01 May 2003 - 09:07 AM
We use a Buslink 120gb USB 2.0 drive for backups at work, and Ive never had a problem with it, works great.
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Re: Buying A Usb Hard Drive
Posted 01 May 2003 - 02:49 PM
i know what he's talkin about, its a hard drive (yes 128MB) and its no bigger than your finger. It's fast, its small, and just plain easy to use. if you want a simple alternative to floppies, cds, zipdisks and the like, the flashdrive is the way to go. i bought mine from Butterfly Media, works like a charm
it looks like this:
it looks like this:
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Re: Buying A Usb Hard Drive
Posted 01 May 2003 - 09:00 PM
Yeah, thats not a USB Hard Drive, thats a thumb USB dongle. Hard drives have physical disks and such.
I've actually never seen a thumb drive with a transfer rate above 1Mb/s so getting USB2 would be pointless since USB1 goes at 11Mb/s peak.
I've actually never seen a thumb drive with a transfer rate above 1Mb/s so getting USB2 would be pointless since USB1 goes at 11Mb/s peak.
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Re: Buying A Usb Hard Drive
Posted 02 May 2003 - 09:13 AM
hmm for 35 bucks from new egg I might have to pick up one
with that sneakernet to my house in the evening as 128mb over dial up is kindof slow and I hate firing up my laptop to read a cdr on the desktop. Maby I need to get a new dvdrom drive while im at it to replace the flaky one I have.
with that sneakernet to my house in the evening as 128mb over dial up is kindof slow and I hate firing up my laptop to read a cdr on the desktop. Maby I need to get a new dvdrom drive while im at it to replace the flaky one I have.
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