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What portable hard drive is everyone using here?

gianly1985 said:
Interesting, thanks.

The USB port on the WD Passport Studio "e-ink" is actually standard, it's called Micro-USB and it's very common in mobile phones, you could find a cable quite easily,

ps: is the WD e-ink studio passport made of metal or just silver plastic?
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All I can say is that the plugs from my previous WD drives that use micro-USB don't fit. I have a ton of micro-USB devices--including drives from various manufacturers, hubs, cameras, phones--and all use interchangeable cables. This drive uses something just slightly different enough that none of my other cables work. Shrug.

Case is silver plastic, with white plastic sides, and it does look really nice, very Apple-ish.
 
sjinsjca said:
All I can say is that the plugs from my previous WD drives that use micro-USB don't fit. I have a ton of micro-USB devices--including drives from various manufacturers, hubs, cameras, phones--and all use interchangeable cables. This drive uses something just slightly different enough that none of my other cables work. Shrug.
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That's because those devices are MINI-usb, not MICRO-usb.

Hubs, cameras, phones, scanners (sometimes), tv tuners, portable drives ----> MINI-usb

Recent mobile phones ----> MICRO-usb

WD Passport studio ----> MICRO-usb

That's "a first" for a non-cellphone product.
And I realize it sucks, given everyone of us has got tons of MINI (not MICRO) usb cables around the house. But, still, it's not proprietary, it's standard and cables are not hard to find.

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Hellhammer said:
I have 320GB LaCie Rugged, been happy with it. I have the USB version but there is one with FW800 as well
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Wow I was about to answer you "but that tops at 500gb :(", but I checked the Lacie site and I've just realized they now offer 1tb drives!

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11513

So that's another 1tb fw800 drive, after OWC.

ps: and it can also daisy-chain, go to page 13:

http://www.lacie.com/download/manual/rugged_g2_en.pdf

(although devices AFTER it in the chain will be limited to FW400 speeds)
 
I was thinking of getting a WD Passport, but I ended up just getting a desktop 1TB WD Elements drive.

For my portable storage, I have a 16GB Kingston Data Traveller attached to my keys. :p
 
I have a 500GB G-Drive Mini that I bought a couple years ago. It's got 1xFW800, 1xFW400, 1xUSB 2.0 unlike the newer models which have another FW800 port in-place of the FW400 port, and are a LOT cheaper than mine was.
 
Bill Gates said:
I have a 500GB G-Drive Mini that I bought a couple years ago. It's got 1xFW800, 1xFW400, 1xUSB 2.0 unlike the newer models which have another FW800 port in-place of the FW400 port, and are a LOT cheaper than mine was.
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same I bought the G-Raid Mini w/ 2x800 1x400 1xUSB for $300 and now the updated model with 1x eSATA + 2x800 + 1xUSB is a whole $200 bucks.
 
Western Digital Studio 2 or 3 I forget

I use a western digital my passport studio it's now been discontinued and replaced by a newer model but the only difference is that. The new one tells you how full it is when not connected to a computer. Anyway it has fw800 fw400 and usb2.0
 
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