I'm not sure how many of you knew this, but WD has a 1TB version of their Passport drive.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=691
Western Digital came out with a 2TB internal drive not too long ago; I wonder how long it'll be before they put it in a USB-powered enclosure.
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as long as it would take you to buy the 3.5" 2TB SATA drive and a 3.5" SATA external USB enclosure.
cool though i have never filled my 250gb passport (got for $55)
i never got around to filling my 200GB Maxtor One Touch II even though i paid 300$ for it about 7 years ago. (;>.>)
Wouldn't be USB powered. I'm sure you can get an external 2TB drive by now, but an iPod-sized hard drive without a power supply that just runs off USB is something else entirely (and much cooler).
Lightweights. I've got 1.43TB between four hard drives at home and they stay pretty close to full. One of these days I need to just get a 2TB drive and consolidate most of it there.
Well the thing is there is a 1TB 2.5" drive out there now which is why they have a USB powered 1TB drive. The higher volumes are 3.5" which require 12V power instead of 5V @ .5A.
I am not a lightweight. you obviously havent seen my short bio description on this fine site (@___@). I just dont have a use for a big giant behemoth of a drive.
I've got 3 1TB external drives, a 2x1TB RAID array, a 320GB Passport, 2 160GB drives in my laptop, an 8GB memory stick, a 1GB Micro SD card, and a 1GB Cruzer Mini.
Vintage!
I have not, but I just looked at it, and stand corrected. That's a lot of data storage, albeit on many, mostly small devices. You could stand to sell a lot of that and use the proceeds to buy one 1TB drive and have everything in one place. If you wanted to.
Indeed. You're pushing almost 6TB there, assuming your RAID is striped, rather than mirrored, in which case it would be almost 5TB, still impressive.
...I really need a little portable hard drive. Doesn't need to be huge. 40GB would be fine, 80GB would be more than enough. Lucky for me, I couldn't get an 80GB for too much cheaper than I could get a 250-320GB brand new with a nice case on Newegg. Fifty, sixty bucks for no-name brands which get decent reviews. Ain't bad if you can afford it, and my wife busted my chops for spending $30 on the 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager. Should have just went to a portable hard drive at that point.
hehe... thats not including my new 160GB SATA and 2TB SATA i just got yesterday >:F
well a WD Scorpio Black 250gb (7200rpm, 16mb cache) in a usb enclosure and only for $55 is a nice deal, especially when the drive on the inside sells on the wd website for over $90
fyi i am at like 125/250gb