A Review of the Top Four External Hard Drives

Lucas123 writes "There's a really good, detailed review at the Computerworld site on the top four external hard drives with more than 500GB of capacity. The story reveals some big flaws in the external drives, like malfunctioning one-touch backup buttons, USB 2.0 ports that don't recognize the drives, and drives coming out of the boxes unformatted. It's also an eye opener with regard to actual backup speeds. 'Broadband connections, peer-to-peer networks and larger media files coupled with new regulations that require diligence in backing up files have clearly affected the external hard drive market as drive capacities expand to 1TB and beyond. Meanwhile, the prices of those drives continue to drop, making them ever more attractive, particularly with the ease of deployment -- literally a two-minute installation, and you're ready to go. We put four of the leading external hard drives to the test. Our criteria were simple: The drives had to have multiple connection technologies (USB 2.0 plus FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 or both), include backup software and have a capacity of at least 500GB.'"

Comments

Re:TFA: one page, less advertising

[lucabrasi999]

Now why did you go ahead and do that? Lucas123 was just trying to use a Slashdot Submission to drive traffic to his site in the hopes he could get some additional advertising revenue. It's not like he's Roland Piquapalle.......Oh, wait. Never mind.

Re:Why not just do it yourself?

[$RANDOMLUSER]

/me ponders "500 GB formatted FAT32" - *head asplodes*

Re:What the shit is this?

[UncleTogie]

Hmmm, that's not going to work for me then, I use bear bottles, thus my setup is incompatible with this blinking light of which you speak.
Incompatibilities aside, I've got to ask: How the heck do you manage to bottle a bear?

Re:What the shit is this?

[zippthorne]

Very carefully?