Sleek storage in trendy colors: 250 GB of memory, made by Western Digital Passport.
That much memory means 71,000 photos, or 62,000 MP3s, or 100 hours of DVD quality video, in available in black (not shown), or red, white, or acid green.
The great feature is that it's both PC and Mac compatible, and features 128-bit encryption. Oh, and it retails for $200, though the 120 GB and 160 GB versions are cheaper.
Do you have an external hard drive? What do you keep on it? What do you wish it did that it doesn't already do?
I have the seagate 500G that I anthropomorphize and pretend it is happy to see me when it lights up, it is partitioned to clone my macBook and also hold work stuff, then I have a small clear portable 120G for music and pictures.
I wish the 120G could hold the library files for iTunes and iPhoto as well as the content, but it seems to get corrupted after a while unless I keep the library xml itself local. It would have been a much easier sync option. Also I wish they came with usb2 so they didn't fight over firewire, and could plug into my dvd player without me buying another damn cable.
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it's not memory, it's mass storage - a hard drive. confusing the two makes it very difficult to take this seriously as a tech blog, home tech or otherwise. the distinction is of a fundamental part of computer architecture.
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a bit acidic aren't we, vinegar?
okay, kidding. sorry. i couldn't resist. and i hope the joke translates as well as i thought of it (in italian)
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I have several HDD. Approximately, 2.5TB. Mostly movies daisy chained on to a firewire port. I don't have it on all the time. Just want I have a hankering to watch a movie. The only thing I wish HDD manufacturers do is label the true storage capacity of a HDD. It's never what it's advertise after you format the drive. Those bastid.
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they take advantage of a confusion over the SI prefixes kilo, mega, etc and advertise in base 10 rather than the base 2 your computer uses. it's not all dishonest though, there really are 100,000,000,000 byte blocks on an advertised "100GB" drive, but 100 billion bytes is around 93GB as far as your computer is concerned
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