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With its stylish sleek design and huge storage capacity, the StoreJet 25C is the most elegant portable hard drive around.
This review is from : Transcend 320GB StoreJet 25 Classic Portable Hard Drive TS320GSJ25C
Sleek and competitively priced . I'm sure that within a few months, this won't be that great of a deal just because technology changes so fast (and because usb 3.0 is on the way) but for 85 dollars in December 08 from Amazon, this was a very competitive deal.
I've been very happy with the product.
First of all, I'd like to say that the packaging is very consumer friendly. Very easy to open and sturdy.
The external drive itself is very sleek and small. I'd say it's a little larger and thicker than an iphone. It has a slightly grippy bottom side which prevents the drive from sliding around on a hard surface. The top side has a metallic finish that looks really nice, but tends to hold fingerprints.
One of my favorite aspects is that you don't need an external power supply as the drive is powered via the single usb cable. This is great because it will leave your desk or work area looking much less cluttered and because this makes it much easier to pick up and plug into another computer or device (such as an xbox 360).
This is the main reason I chose this device over others. It really is portable.
I should mention that if you want to use an external hard drive with an xbox 360, the drive must be formatted to a FAT32 file system, which has it's drawbacks, such as a 4 GiB maximum file size.
To overcome this problem I created a FAT32 partition and an EXT3 partition (which is the standard for many versions of linux). Linux can access both of these partitions, but windows needs a driver to access the ext partition. I put a copy of the driver installer on the fat32 partition so that I could access the whole drive from most windows machines.
The drive has so much space (320GiB) that having two partitions on it hasn't even become a space issue yet.
If you don't know what I'm talking about when I say partition, you should just know that...
This drive comes pre-formatted with NTFS, which is a good file system in that it is accessible from most operating systems as far as I know (Windows, Linux, Mac)
It comes with a faux-leather case which I always keep the drive in. I just unzip it when I'm using it so that heat is allowed to escape. I feel like this case would be good at protecting the drive from being damaged by fall, (though this has not happened to mine yet). One problem with the case is that there really isn't much storage room for anything else besides the drive and possibly a couple of sd cards. It would be nice if the USB cable would also fit within.
I didn't test any of the software that came with the product as I have no reason to.
Overall, I'd recommend this product as I have had no problems with it yet.
Sleek and competitively priced . I'm sure that within a few months, this won't be that great of a deal just because technology changes so fast (and because usb 3.0 is on the way) but for 85 dollars in December 08 from Amazon, this was a very competitive deal.
I've been very happy with the product.
First of all, I'd like to say that the packaging is very consumer friendly. Very easy to open and sturdy.
The external drive itself is very sleek and small. I'd say it's a little larger and thicker than an iphone. It has a slightly grippy bottom side which prevents the drive from sliding around on a hard surface. The top side has a metallic finish that looks really nice, but tends to hold fingerprints.
One of my favorite aspects is that you don't need an external power supply as the drive is powered via the single usb cable. This is great because it will leave your desk or work area looking much less cluttered and because this makes it much easier to pick up and plug into another computer or device (such as an xbox 360).
This is the main reason I chose this device over others. It really is portable.
I should mention that if you want to use an external hard drive with an xbox 360, the drive must be formatted to a FAT32 file system, which has it's drawbacks, such as a 4 GiB maximum file size.
To overcome this problem I created a FAT32 partition and an EXT3 partition (which is the standard for many versions of linux). Linux can access both of these partitions, but windows needs a driver to access the ext partition. I put a copy of the driver installer on the fat32 partition so that I could access the whole drive from most windows machines.
The drive has so much space (320GiB) that having two partitions on it hasn't even become a space issue yet.
If you don't know what I'm talking about when I say partition, you should just know that...
This drive comes pre-formatted with NTFS, which is a good file system in that it is accessible from most operating systems as far as I know (Windows, Linux, Mac)
It comes with a faux-leather case which I always keep the drive in. I just unzip it when I'm using it so that heat is allowed to escape. I feel like this case would be good at protecting the drive from being damaged by fall, (though this has not happened to mine yet). One problem with the case is that there really isn't much storage room for anything else besides the drive and possibly a couple of sd cards. It would be nice if the USB cable would also fit within.
I didn't test any of the software that came with the product as I have no reason to.
Overall, I'd recommend this product as I have had no problems with it yet.
Transcend 320GB StoreJet 25 Classic Portable Hard Drive TS320GSJ25C Reviews
Best there is dont waste time with others . I did the research on others. Just about all of them have had some negative problem. I have had this one over a year. Plugs in and works great. I have 3 computers backed up on my Transcend drive and I love it. Small, inexpensive, convenient and has not let me down ever. What more can you ask for?
One note: Do not leave it plugged in if you power down your PC as this drive still runs if hooked in by USB. You can hear it up close to your ear so unplug before you power down.
Best there is dont waste time with others . I did the research on others. Just about all of them have had some negative problem. I have had this one over a year. Plugs in and works great. I have 3 computers backed up on my Transcend drive and I love it. Small, inexpensive, convenient and has not let me down ever. What more can you ask for?
One note: Do not leave it plugged in if you power down your PC as this drive still runs if hooked in by USB. You can hear it up close to your ear so unplug before you power down.
Transcend 320GB StoreJet 25 Classic Portable Hard Drive TS320GSJ25C Opinions
SSF (Slim Small Fast) . No gripes so far on this item, it comes with a USB cable and a nice zipper case that fits almost exactly with the hard drive. You dont need a sotware to run it on windows vista, you just need to connect it to the USB port to get ready the speed transfer is quite a bit fast (USB 2.0 up to 480MBs) a blue LED indicates the data transfer activity, you cant go wrong with this external HD....highly recommeded
SSF (Slim Small Fast) . No gripes so far on this item, it comes with a USB cable and a nice zipper case that fits almost exactly with the hard drive. You dont need a sotware to run it on windows vista, you just need to connect it to the USB port to get ready the speed transfer is quite a bit fast (USB 2.0 up to 480MBs) a blue LED indicates the data transfer activity, you cant go wrong with this external HD....highly recommeded
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Product Details
EAN : 0102646040942UPC : 102646040942
MPN : 0760557813378
Brand : Transcend
Weight : 1 pounds
Height : 2 inches
Length : 8 inches
Width : 7 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Format : CD
Hardware Platform : Pc
ItemPartNumber : TS320GSJ25C
Manufacturer : TRANSCEND
Model : TS320GSJ25C
Operating System : Windows
Platform : Windows
Publisher : TRANSCEND
SKU : 23399
Studio : TRANSCEND
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