Passim 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 Dear all, Just wondering how many of you are using Portable Harddisk and what size. Those that don't have .... pleas share why. Thanks. I have 1 x 20 GB and 1 x 80 GB for storing photos and videos. Took out from previous old lap tops before returning them to office. I just have another 160 GB one free today from my old Dell Laptop. Just change NoteBook to Fujitsu E8420. What is the price difference between 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM Hard Disk? ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyppopo Neutral Newbie November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 bro, go Giant look look. 2.5" portable hardisks having sales. 320Gb - $125, 250Gb - $105(cant remember the exact price). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Author Share November 3, 2008 Giant selling 500GB portable HDD at $199 Wah!! That's $0.398/GB!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protege 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 My fren just help me bought an Imation Apollo 250gb portable hard disk at last computer show. I think $120+ or so. Love it! Light and very useful! http://www.imation.com/products/apollo/apollo_2-5_drive.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babyt 4th Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 frankly speaking, i would rather buy a few smaller hdds then 1 big hdd to store all my stuffs and getting all data lost with 1 faulty hdd. Given a choice to buy 320GB or 2 x 160GB...i will go for the latter. btw, do you guys backup whatever in your external hdd into another hdd? I have a fren who stored all his files in this external hdd but never backup in a 2nd hdd and ended up all crashed. portable does not mean no need to backup also... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modykoh 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 now the camara resolution is good untill got to buy hd to store... Mp3 also... wat the biggest cap in market?? amybe small wan better...not all in one busket... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Author Share November 3, 2008 160GB at 72 with casing...the casing looks cheapo but ok to use. the discount was given to staff from one of our distributors. 320GB w casing around $146. Casing is not that important .... as long as it's workable. Anybody can tell me any difference if I were to get SATA type? Is it faster? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Author Share November 3, 2008 bro, go Giant look look. 2.5" portable hardisks having sales. 320Gb - $125, 250Gb - $105(cant remember the exact price). Later must go see liao .... Tampines Giant? or elsewhere? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sony 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 You may wish to talk to the people here to recover yourpriceless data: http://www.symplexz.com/ Warning: not cheap! Remember reading Digital Life couple of months back - a local setup at science park. Can't remember the name.... ya.. I read about that.. but I think that is a bit extreme.. erm.. too bad, i don't keep that copy... would be useful now that I need it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavver 4th Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 one brandless 120Gb 2.5" HDD and a couple of 1GB to 2 GB Thumbdrive . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanium 4th Gear November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 HDD doesn't spin or detected when I plug it to my PC as slave.. anyone can help? anyway, anyone can help me with a dead HD? any place to recover? I suspect the disk platter is ok, meaning stuff are ok but the power thingy is dead.. Cheers u try to download any linux liveCD or bootable thumbdrive. Try to access it via linux 1st. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Author Share November 3, 2008 IMO, for portable i dun recommend to use big capacity HDD. Cos it will take very long to do data recovery if anything happened. Example... It took me 5 full days to recover a 160gb HDD. To recover a 500gb... But with high capacity being quite cheap .... guess that'll be the trend. Btw .... how did you recover your data? What did you do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Author Share November 3, 2008 Giant selling 500GB portable HDD at $199 Is this the slim harddisk? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear November 3, 2008 Author Share November 3, 2008 My fren just help me bought an Imation Apollo 250gb portable hard disk at last computer show. I think $120+ or so. Love it! Light and very useful! http://www.imation.com/products/apollo/apollo_2-5_drive.html Buy from where? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyppopo Neutral Newbie November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 bro, go Giant look look. 2.5" portable hardisks having sales. 320Gb - $125, 250Gb - $105(cant remember the exact price). Later must go see liao .... Tampines Giant? or elsewhere? saw them in IMM giant last weekend, printed on their flyer, so i guess you can find the HDD in all giant kuah. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyppopo Neutral Newbie November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 frankly speaking, i would rather buy a few smaller hdds then 1 big hdd to store all my stuffs and getting all data lost with 1 faulty hdd. Given a choice to buy 320GB or 2 x 160GB...i will go for the latter. btw, do you guys backup whatever in your external hdd into another hdd? I have a fren who stored all his files in this external hdd but never backup in a 2nd hdd and ended up all crashed. portable does not mean no need to backup also... I guess it is up to personal's preferences. I don't like to carry so many around and the USB cables will be very messy in my bag I tried to minimise the number of things to carry around when i travel la, but still i hv 1 for data, 1 for movies and songs and 1 for backup Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getzoooom Neutral Newbie November 3, 2008 Share November 3, 2008 Giant selling 500GB portable HDD at $199 Is this the slim harddisk? Ya, 2.5"hdd with casing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protege 1st Gear November 4, 2008 Share November 4, 2008 Should be able to get from most places like Sim Lim, Challenger, etc. I got mine from Comex. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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