Unbelievable Price!
Massive 250GB HDD Holds 112,500 Digital Photos!
Seagate Barracuda drives are designed for mainstream PC, consumer electronics
and emerging markets. This 7200 RPM hard drive offers a 8MB buffer, ATA/100
interface and a capacity of 250GB. Its combination of performance and capacity
makes it an excellent choice for performance PCs, gaming systems, network attached
storage, home networking devices, digital video editing and entry-level RAID
applications. Barracuda drives are equipped with fluid dynamic bearing
motors for acoustic sensitive applications. This allows the drive to operate
with extremely low sound output, an important feature for many applications.
Compact, External Hard Disk Enclosure
With Advanced Cooling Fan System
It’s compact, it’s sturdy and it’s incredibly mobile. The Ultra
Mini Portable Disk Enclosure is a perfect fit for anyone on the go. Supports
any 3.5" hard disk drive. Comes with built-in, heat-dissipating cooling
fan to keep your hard drive in tip-top shape. With lightning-fast USB 2.0 and
FireWire interfaces, the Ultra Mini Portable Disk Enclosure offers you super-speedy
data transfer and remarkable versatility. Plug and play! Comes with external
power supply and USB and FireWire cables. Instant backup! Instant storage! The
Ultra Mini Portable Disk Enclosure - the incomparable mobile solution for the
person on the go!
This Bundle Includes
Seagate / 250GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-100
/ EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive Seagate's Barracuda 250GB hard disc drive (Model: 7200.8) delivers
7,200 RPM access speed and an Ultra ATA-100 interface for mainstream and
high-performance desktop applications. This drive features superior performance,
quiet acoustics and Seagate's comprehensive 3D Defense System, for the
highest security of your data. The Seagate 250GB hard drive handles the
common uses of today's PCs, such as games, photo and video editing, advanced
applications, MP3's and the usual Internet downloads. And with the 8.5
ms access time, these functions will be performed swiftly and accurately!
Ultra 3.5" USB 2.0 / Firewire External
Hard Drive Enclosure It’s compact, it’s sturdy and it’s incredibly mobile. The Ultra Mini
Portable Disk Enclosure is a perfect fit for anyone on the go. Supports
any 3.5” hard disk drive. Comes with built-in, heat-dissipating cooling
fan to keep your hard drive in tip-top shape. With lightning-fast USB
2.0 and FireWire interfaces, the Ultra Mini Portable Disk Enclosure offers
you super-speedy data transfer and remarkable versatility. Plug and play!
Comes with external power supply and USB and FireWire cables. Instant
backup! Instant storage! The Ultra Mini Portable Disk Enclosure - the
incomparable mobile solution for the person on the go!
Detailed Features
A Closer Look
Features
Supports High Speed USB2.0 USB1.1 and Firewire
Hot-Swappable - Plug-n-Play
Compatible With 3.5" IDE Hard Drives
Built-in Cooling Fan
Easy Installation
Customer Reviews and Rating
Customer Rating:
4.6
Customer Reviews:
32
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Value
4.6
Features
4.6
Quality
4.6
Performance
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Reviewer:
Tony on
Nov 23, 2006 Customer Rating:
4.0
Value
4.0
Features
4.0
Quality
4.0
Performance
4.0
Tight fit. Only used four of the six screws to secure it inside the encloser. Left the rear two screws out because the hard drive would not function properly with them in place. Works great now.
Reviewer:
Jim on
Oct 30, 2006 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
I purchased 2 sets of these on the first of September 06. Before buying I read other reviews and noticed that someone had an issue with re-attaching the enclosure screws.
They do ''hang'' a bit due to the plastic. What I did was apply a bit of liquid soap to ease them in. No problem.
The instructions could have shown better which Fire port to input/output to chain them. I though they had to be a certain way.
Would have been nice if the enclosure had a few louvers on the sides and very top to lets some heat out though it doesn't seem to be getting hot at all. Always good to plane ahead. No real problems at all. Very well worth the purchase price.
Reviewer:
brort on
Oct 26, 2006 Customer Rating:
3.0
Value
3.0
Features
3.0
Quality
3.0
Performance
3.0
The fan is unacceptably loud. I'm returning the whole package. Bought it based on Seagate's good reputation and the enclosure looked unobtrusive enough. Mildly challenging to install the drive in the enclosure but get the cable out of the way and all fits together nicely. Make sure the drive is set to master, not cable select, before plugging in cables. Plugged it in and ears were immediately assaulted by whining fan noise audible two rooms away. If that doesn't concern you, this could be a good choice. I'm looking for music storage and I don't want to listen to the fan while the music is playing.
Reviewer:
Mike B on
Oct 26, 2006 Customer Rating:
4.0
Value
4.0
Features
4.0
Quality
4.0
Performance
4.0
It's a nice drive. Lots of space for the money, no problems. I do find the fan and plastic case to be a noisy combination. The fan could use some better isolation perhaps. I also found that the unit runs coller with the lower lens (there is no LED there) removed for better airflow.
Reviewer:
Newelle on
Oct 26, 2006 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Excellent product and fairly easy to install. The customer service was fantastic with helping me format the hard drive. As for the rebate, I'm still waiting. I received an email about a month ago stating I would be receiving it soon...I'm still waiting. Other than that, it was a great investment and well worth purchasing.
Important OEM Hard
Drive Note:
OEM hard drives do not include cables, software, or hardware (screws, brackets,
etc.). Full manufacturer's warranty applies.
Please Note:
In order to properly access the full capacity of an ATA interface hard drive
or partition larger than 137GB and properly support 48-bit logical block addressing,
Windows Vista , Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are required. This
issue does not affect SCSI hard drives.
Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
Data type
Time to re-create 20 MB
Cost
Sales and marketing
19 days
$17,000
Accounting
21 days
$19,000
Engineering
42 days
$98,000
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
Today's Backup Options
With ever increasing hard drive sizes, how do you protect your valuable
data? CDs are only 720+ MBs, and even DVDs are limited to a few
Gigabytes. So what do you do to back up hundreds of Gigabytes? Here
are some great and inexpensive options:
High Capacity USB Thumb Drives: USB Thumb Drives are now
available in sizes as large as 64GB (soon to be even more). While
the USB interface is somewhat slow, these make an ideal solution for their
small compact size. Thumb drives are perfect for storing in files,
or other compact spaces. While their cost per GB is somewhat high,
their convenience, USB interface, size, and extremely light weight, make
them a very attractive option.
External Hard Drives Now you have a wide variety of
options for external hard drives. 1TB (Terabyte) External Drives are
now available for less than $200.00. External drives come in a wide
range of sizes, speeds, and interfaces. They are available with USB
(the slowest), Firewire (medium speed), and SATA/eSATA (the fastest).
When selecting an external drive, it is important to consider how you will
use the drive, and the interface limitations of your computer. If
you have a laptop that only has USB ports, this would be your best
(possibly only) option. If you have USB & Firewire, get a drive that
has Firewire for the performance boost. If your system has a SATA or
eSata port, get a drive with this option - it will give you true hard
drive to hard drive performance.
However, also consider where you might need to restore the data. USB
is the most universal, in that almost all systems have USB ports. If
your system dies, and you need to restore your data, this may be your most
important consideration.
One last consideration is to keep your backup drive continuously
connected, or only connect it during backups. The general idea of
backups is to have a copy of your data in case your system fails - which
they do. But you may also want secure protected backups in a safe or
safe deposit box. Regardless, external hard drives offer an
outstanding solution for backing up your data, and the cost per GB is
quite low.
Hard Drive Docks (Toasters) An incredibly simple, yet
functional new product category emerged in 2008: Hard Drive Toasters (Hard Drive
Docks). This device lets you plug in regular internal hard drives as
though they were pop-in flash drives. You drop in your hard drive,
and the dock instantly gives your system access to that drive, without
wiring, or power connections - it's all done by the hard drive toaster.
This way you can use any compatible hard drive as an external removable
hard drive for backup purposes!
Online Backup Still another option is to use an
online backup service. These come in two forms:
• Backup to another computer over the Internet
• Backup to a central server using the Internet
The first of these can work very well, and automatically backups when you
are online. The Microsoft OneCare service is one example. It
can backup your data from your system to another in your OneCare account
across the Internet automatically, regardless of where you are.
The second involves trusting your critical data to someone else's servers,
and usually no real guarantee that your data will always be there.
If they loose your data, they just refund your fee. This service may
be fine for a couple of letters, but business critical data needs to be
accessible forever. For this reason, you are better advised to look
to a hardware solution that you control.
Backup Software Many products come with backup
software included, such as External Hard Drives, and Antivirus products
like
CA Security Suite. Most offer excellent features for automated
backups. But remember, backup software and devices, are only as good
as your willingness to use them! So backup regularly, and backup often.
This Drive Includes
a PATA (Parallel ATA / EIDE ) Interface
Enhanced integrated drive
electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA (PATA), hard drives have
been the standard in the home computer industry for more than 10 years.
Some newer computer system motherboards don't have EIDE ports, but
a PCI EIDE controller card can be installed to add support for EIDE
drives. If you don't know whether your computer has EIDE ports on
the motherboard, refer to your computer or motherboard documentation
or contact the motherboard manufacturer.
Curious About The Differences Between Seria
ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (Ultra ATA)? As time passed, increasing hard disk
transfer rate demands have forced the ATA interface specification to be
continuously updated, to avoid becoming the limiting factor in disk I/O
performance. As consumers embrace new usage models such as digital video
creation and editing, digital audio storage and playback, file sharing over
high-speed networks, and other data intensive applications, demands on hard
drive throughput have increased even further. To keep pace, the
storage interconnect had to evolve beyond the Ultra (Parallel) ATA
technology. The current approach is Serial ATA: a serial implementation of the
parallel Ultra ATA interface. With this paradigm shift in I/O design, the
roadmap of ATA was extended beyond the theoretical limits of the Ultra ATA bus.
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Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
The way size is calculated and
displayed.
Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right: The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE: Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
explore.
A Look at Hard Drives What you need to know before you buy; the inside scoop on what to look for in a hard drive. We reveal the hidden secrets about capacity, RPMs, buffer size and more!
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How to Install a Hard Drive
A Step-by-Step Guide to Clean, Fast, and Easy Hard Drive Installation
Easy to follow, photo-illustrated steps for your no-hassle hard drive installation.
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Issues With Your PC?
Here Are Some Common Problems And Solutions!
Of course, there a thousand little things can go wrong with an average
PC. But many problems are common, and have common solutions.
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Why Do I Have
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