Samsung 2.5" 1TB Portable Hard Drive £78/€90 delivered

Dazzy

"Portable" USB powered 2.5" Samsung S2 1TB Drive for £78/€90 delivered on Amazon.
I've been after one of these for a while and its a very good price for this spec.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-S2-Portable-Drive-Midnight/dp/B003UT2QTQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=computers&qid=1287132524&sr=8-1

wow, thats not bad, not bad at all

just wish I had the spare cash

Professey Chin

Awesome :cool:

jaykay74

Damn just bought a WD 500 gig portable drive for about 70 euro. Can't really justify buying another drive a couple of days later..... or can I ...

Also in before someone post a competing 1TB drive for 50 quid but except its not usb powered (usually happens with usb portable drive BAs)

whosedaddy?

just be aware that this is not an IDE or SATA HDD, but seem to have a direct USB interface - can't use as internal disk at later stage.

loyatemu

also for anyone looking for a 500GB portable - this is the cheapest I've seen so far.

patrickpc

Dazzy wrote: »

"Portable" USB powered 2.5" Samsung S2 1TB Drive for £78/€90 delivered on Amazon.
I've been after one of these for a while and its a very good price for this spec.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-S2-Portable-Drive-Midnight/dp/B003UT2QTQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=computers&qid=1287132524&sr=8-1

Anyone know if this can be formatted to FAT32 and used as an external drive on a Playstation 3?

Thanks.

EoghanConway

whosedaddy? wrote: »

just be aware that this is not an IDE or SATA HDD, but seem to have a direct USB interface - can't use as internal disk at later stage.

But you can remove the shell and there will be a normal sata drive inside.

SickBoy

EoghanConway wrote: »

But you can remove the shell and there will be a normal sata drive inside.

This is not the case with newer WD Passport drives, they have a PCB with a MicroUSB connection and I'm thinking this could be the same with this Samsung model.

nudist

Dazzy wrote: »

"Portable" USB powered 2.5" Samsung S2 1TB Drive for £78/€90 delivered on Amazon.
I've been after one of these for a while and its a very good price for this spec.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-S2-Portable-Drive-Midnight/dp/B003UT2QTQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=computers&qid=1287132524&sr=8-1

First off is samsung a good brand for a external hard drives? I have a 500GB toshiba one that ive had for nearly 2 years now-still works well but is nearly full of data :pac:

Secondly does this samsung drive come without the leather finish-its horrible-the idea of seeing that everyday sickens me. I mean why on earth would you have leather of all things on pc peripherals ffs?

whosedaddy?

EoghanConway wrote: »

But you can remove the shell and there will be a normal sata drive inside.

nope.. its not... just like Sickboy said about the WD drives.

EoghanConway

SickBoy wrote: »

This is not the case with newer WD Passport drives, they have a PCB with a MicroUSB connection and I'm thinking this could be the same with this Samsung model.

whosedaddy? wrote: »

nope.. its not... just like Sickboy said about the WD drives.

Wow, didn't see that before. But lo and behold: http://www.macworld.com/article/152913/2010/07/mypassport.html

Hope it doesn't become a trend.

whosedaddy?

pics of broken samsung ...

in another foum.

KeRbDoG

patrickpc wrote: »

Anyone know if this can be formatted to FAT32 and used as an external drive on a Playstation 3?

Thanks.

FAT32 volumes can be 512 MB to 8 TB. But note;

While FAT32 partitions this large work fine once created, some software won't allow creation of FAT32 partitions larger than 32 GB. This includes, notoriously, the Windows XP installation program and the Disk Management console in Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. Use FDISK from a Windows ME Emergency Boot Disk to avoid.

From Wikipedia

shayser

Sorry for the resurrection of an old thread. Just wondering if anyone who bought one of these got a hard case for it. I'm looking for one and want to be sure of the size.

The Ayatolla

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004NE76KQ

Picked up this. USB 3.0 (backward compatible).

2 year warranty. Very pleased with it.

The Ayatolla

The Ayatolla wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004NE76KQ

Picked up this. USB 3.0 (backward compatible).

2 year warranty. Very pleased with it.

have that too. seems grand so far. usb 3.0 means will be about 2 X fast with newer laptops with usb 3.0 ports.

The Ayatolla

Tried it on a friend's laptop and was about 3/4 times faster on average which will come in handy when I upgrade the laptop in a few years! :P

coldfire1x

Thinking on getting the Toshiba one as well.

How big is compared to WD or Samsung?

The Ayatolla

It's VERY small! 2.5" form factor.

MagicMarker

Has anyone actually bought the HD in the OP?

Doesn't ship to Ireland.

28064212

MagicMarker wrote: »

Has anyone actually bought the HD in the OP?

Doesn't ship to Ireland.

That's true. However, there is a newer (and slightly cheaper) version of that model here and they do ship that one to Ireland P&P comes to £7.50, so the order total is £78.83.

However, this Toshiba Drive, which is the same size, same capacity and has USB 3.0, is cheaper again, and qualifies for free delivery to Ireland