Portable Drive

swood

swood

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I bought a 64GB USB pen drive from Hong Kong off Ebay. It advertised 'Data transfer rates of up to 20MB/sec. read and 10MB/sec. write1', but when i tried using it i only got around 2MB. I was going to use it to hold all my videos (at the moment 43.1GBs worth) so i want something with descent speeds.

I plug my current 16GB USB pen drive into my Xbox to watch movies on my TV. Does anyone know of any descent large memory USB pen drives or a portable hard drive with at least 64GB space?

The portable hard drive needs to be small and need no power cables or anything like that. I've got two external drives atm but there too big to lug around.

If anyone can provide links to fast, descent USB pen drives of hard drives that would be awesome. I'm looking to spend anything below £60. I'd like it as cheap as possible tho.


Thanks a lot
swood
 
Here is the description that it had:
Fast — Data transfer rates of up to 20MB/sec. read and 10MB/sec. write1
USB 2.0 port required for high-speed transfer
Requires high-power USB hub port
 
I just thought of this, but is there any chance they're advertising megaBITS and not megaBYTES per second? If you do the math, 20 megabits per second divided by 8 equals 2.5 megabytes per second.
 
jamesd1981 said:
how about this, you wont get the full speed unless you have usb 3 on your pc but should still get a fast transfer rate.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/240966
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I have USB 2 on my laptop. But thanks for the link, i'll think about it

ean_skxawng said:
I just thought of this, but is there any chance they're advertising megaBITS and not megaBYTES per second? If you do the math, 20 megabits per second divided by 8 equals 2.5 megabytes per second.
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Ah, you know what? you could be spot on with that. Damn it!
 
Just buy the laptop hard disk drive like Seagate,Hitachi,WD and so on and also buy the case for that HDD so that you can simply plug it in your PC or laptop using the simple USB cable.Its small and practical ;)
 
swood said:
This may sound like a stupid question, but what does that do? It's not a HDD because it doesn't show the size
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It's a hard drive case. You purchase a 2.5inch hard drive of any size and speed you like (that is IDE mind you), put it inside the case. And then you can use a USB cable from the case to your laptop/xbox. The HDD will act like a USB drive!

:)
 
kobaj said:
It's a hard drive case. You purchase a 2.5inch hard drive of any size and speed you like (that is IDE mind you), put it inside the case. And then you can use a USB cable from the case to your laptop/xbox. The HDD will act like a USB drive!

:)
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Oh right, i thought it was a case at first but didn't understand why he would post that link in this thread, when this thread is about trying to find a HDD not a HDD case :P.
Thanks for the kobaj
 
For a portable hard drive, you'd probably want to go USB3.0. USB2.0 has a maximum transfer rate of 480Mbit/sec (or 60MByte/sec), but no matter how fast the hard drive is USB2.0 won't let you get much past 30Mbyte/sec. USB3.0 however should be able to get you at least 80Mbyte/sec

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SATA-USB-3-0-...es_HardDriveEnclosures_RL&hash=item5ade874214

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146083

I should know because I have the same hard drive, and when I use it throgh my usb2.0 case I only get 29/30Mbyte/sec max, where as plugged into a SATA 3Gbit/sec port I get around 100Mbyte/sec. Even my sh*tty little Hitachi hard drive in my netbook gets 80Mbyte/sec.

The hard drive I have chosen has 16MB of cache and is 7200RPM where as most 2.5" drives are only 5400RPM and should last you a good while.

EDIT: You could probably get away with a cheaper hard drive, that would still give you atleast 80MBytes/sec in a USB3.0 port.
 
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melloorr said:
I found this portable HDD . Seems very cheap and reliable.
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Yeah I guess that looks ok... remember it's just a USB2.0 drive so you probably won't get transfer rates higher than 30Mbytes/sec. If you only want a USB2.0 PHDD then you might as well buy a USB2.0 case and a 2.5" SATA enclosure, save yourself a few dollars.

But in the end its your choice, if it were me I'd be getting a USB3.0 enclosure and a 2.5" HDD.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-5-EXTERNAL-...es_HardDriveEnclosures_RL&hash=item45f60f021e

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/153103

In the end though the Toshiba PHDD still looks fine, it's up to you.
 
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