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Topic: SimpleTech External Hard Drive? |
Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 7 Jan 2007 7:26 am |
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| Would only a simpleton buy one of these lower priced units? (I am considering it). Is this a 'you get what you pay for, expect quick failure' thing or a 'they all come out of the same factory, just find the lowest price' thing? |
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Jan 2007 10:45 am
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Jon-I am looking at them for backup external drive. Don't know yet. Any one have them ?...al.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2007 10:49 am Re: SimpleTech External Hard Drive?
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| Jon Light wrote: |
| Would only a simpleton buy one of these lower priced units? (I am considering it). Is this a 'you get what you pay for, expect quick failure' thing or a 'they all come out of the same factory, just find the lowest price' thing? |
You crack me up Jon! That is a good one!
I bought a SimpleTech USB drive a few months ago and immediately learned that it contains a 250 GB top quality IDE Western Digital 7200 RPM disk, with an 8 MB cache. It has worked flawlessly, everyday, since then. I took it on the road to Little Rock, in November, and it worked perfectly with my notebook. I rate the SimpleTech external drives at 100%, so far.
PS: I bought mine at OfficeMax when it was selling for $99.99, regularly $159.99.
PSS: It runs cool and can be left on always, or turned off at night. It has a rocker power switch on the top rear panel.
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 7 Jan 2007 11:03 am
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Excellent. in fact Office Max is what I'm looking at--15 minute walk. A 160 GB unit for $79. Question: the specs say 2MB buffer. Is buffer the same as cache? And if so, will I regret the 2 MB vs. your 8 MB cache? Or are these different things?
edited to add---my needs are for backup and to move all my sound & youtube files off of my 30 GB harddrive to reduce the load--only 8GB left there.
-------------edited again to answer my own question--yes, buffer & cache seem to be talking about the same thing. The bargain I'm seeing no longer really measures up since it's comparing apples & oranges. The 8 MB version of the 160 GB unit is $120. Looks like I'll wait for a deal like the one you saw.. |
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Jan 2007 12:55 pm
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Wiz-your external HD sounds good to me, I'll be like Jon and look for a deal like you got. Thanks for the info on the performance....al.
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 11 Jan 2007 4:54 pm
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| FWIW, Al and anyone else, I just ordered the 250GB unit at Amazon.com for $99. |
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 Jan 2007 6:19 pm
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Jon- thanks for the tip. I'll be sure and check that out...al.
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