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    ZDATA External Harddrive ..worth buying?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by miscolobo, Nov 23, 2008.

  1. miscolobo

    miscolobo Notebook Deity

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    miscolobo, Nov 23, 2008
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  2. a7x2thedeath

    a7x2thedeath Notebook Consultant

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    You do know that USB 2.0 is only able to support ~30mbps data transfer. Unless you only want it for storage. What would you be putting on there?
     
    a7x2thedeath, Nov 23, 2008
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    In my honest opinion, it is a great buy. It features a Western Digital 640 GB hard drive for $100. (I personally thought it would be some unknown make!) The enclosure itself is the only draw back. My buddy bought one today so he could put all his movies on it and hook it up to his XBOX 360 (I got to spend some quality time with it while I formatted it to fat32 for him)

    The downside to this product is that there is no fan, and the plastic caps on either end of the aluminum are held on by small plastic pegs (2 per cap) that break quite easy! Hint: never drop it! Although i think the EXTRA ventilation we added could'nt hurt it! Oh and it does come with a USB cable, but its very short, 1ft I believe.
     
    stevy1g, Jan 13, 2009
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  4. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Two months too late ;) , don't you think ?
     
    PhoenixFx, Jan 13, 2009
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    not really, still good to know right? (also, i never did look at the posting date, sorry!)
     
    stevy1g, Jan 15, 2009
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