Is this a hardrive for laptop?

Road Runner · 29-08-2008, 06:25 PM

Reading this has worried me its not an external hard drive

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250 GB Plug and play passport drive - ideal for laptops and presentations.

pappajohn · 29-08-2008, 06:38 PM

looks like one to me john....similar to the one i just bought from aldi for £55.

usb powered (complete with usb dual cable), 250gig portable hard drive for laptops.

probably just a posh marketing name for a simple hard-drive

Road Runner · 29-08-2008, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by pappajohn

looks like one to me john....similar to the one i just bought from aldi for £55.

usb powered (complete with usb dual cable), 250gig portable hard drive for laptops.

probably just a posh marketing name for a simple hard-drive

Ta its just the wording scared me

pappajohn · 29-08-2008, 06:41 PM

at the end of the day they are only glorified memory sticks

peter H · 29-08-2008, 07:39 PM

Yes it is. It's called a passport drive because its about the size of a passport.
Fits in a shirt pocket.

Amazon - change from 60 Quid

Cheers

Peter

nearlyretired · 29-08-2008, 08:09 PM

Its a hard drive (2.5inch) and good value for the capacity. If anyone made a 250Gb memory stick that would be even better. Might have to wait a little while for that. They keep getting cheaper, the first one was only 4Gb and cost more!

johnsandywhite · 30-08-2008, 08:36 AM

Just to put it into perspective. 25 years ago the first Hard drives were 10MB were almost as big as a small Laptop and weighed more.

American Dream · 30-08-2008, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by johnsandywhite

Just to put it into perspective. 25 years ago the first Hard drives were 10MB were almost as big as a small Laptop and weighed more.

One of my customers of 15 years ago was just getting rid of their storage media.

A graphics/Computer setup with the big removable magnetic platters.

Much bigger... Size of 1/2 a dustbin

Put one of THOSE in your pocket and you'd know about it.