Cool hard drive

August 2, 2008 - 11:36am — Bibliofuture

I was with a friend and he is using his laptop. He then pulls out this little box that is half to a fourth the size of a paperback book and he hooks it to his computer with a USB cable. I ask him what it is. He says that it is a 250gb hard drive. In addition to the small size the cool feature was that it did not need to be plugged into anything but the USB drive for power. I also have a 250gb external hard drive but it is the size of a hardback book and requires a power adapter as well as a USB connection. The drive my friend had was almost small enough to slip into a pocket. After I saw the drive he had I was thinking why carry around a 2,4, or 8gb thumb drive when you can have 250gb at your disposal.

Here is a picture of the drive beside some car keys to show scale.

250gb version
320gb version
160gb version

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August 2, 2008 - 11:53pm — effinglibrarian

look at me, how cool I am... still!

ok, maybe I'm just being an idiot, but I'm commenting on everything tonight for no damn reason.
I have one of those passport drives, but mine is a couple years old and only 60GB and a little bigger than the one your friend has...
BUT, and here is the useful part, I read somewhere that if the usb drive has a short cable, less than 17 inches, you don't need external power. I don't know how true that is, but the passport drives have really short cables.

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August 5, 2008 - 5:40pm — Ruth (not verified)

Groovy funky jazzy tool!

I have one of these - the 320GB version - and it's amazing. When I got it I brought it into work just to wave it around and go "neener neener"! Great way to back up, fast, easy, and I really get a kick out of the tinyness of it. (Is it tininess? Anyway.)

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August 6, 2008 - 1:15pm — Bill Drew

Other portable harddrives

Maxstor sells a great line of external hard drives. I have one I got over a year ago. It can fit in my pocket. It actually has a USB cable with two leads on it. One is for data and power and the second is if you are using an older computer where the single USB may not provide sufficient power it can be plugged into another USB port to provide more power. Portable drives are now available in the 2 Terrabyte range for around $600.