I need an external portable drive with spin speed of 7200 and an external power supply...or else an SSD. Any recommendations?
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The drive you have selected here might not fit what you are looking for; this is a portable usb HDD with no external power--everything is done through the USB cable. I can figure out the RPMs, but I am pretty sure it is much lower than 7200 since its USB powered. Take a look at the WB MyBook Studio: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QGXOP2/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 -This should better fit what you are looking for in a drive. I have one of these, and it works great. The firewire is so much faster than USB 2.0--probably on par with 3.0, I don't have any 3.0 ports or devices. If you have Thunderbolt, they do make Thunderbolt variants, but they are far more expensive--thunderbolt is the fastest connection you can get, but HDD won't use the full speed bandwidth of Thunderbolt; firewire or USB 3.0 should do just fine for HDD. The only reason to get SSD is speed, and you better be prepared to spend a lot of money #1) SSD is more expensive than HDD: HDD is $1 per GB while SSD is about $2.5 per GB 2) the real catch is unless you get an external SSD with Thunderbolt connectivity there is no point in having SSD because the speed will be bottle-necked by the USB or Firewire connection--you won't get the full speed of the SSD. Thunderbolt will also drive up the price as well. If you let me know exactly what you are planning to use this drive for I could give you a better recommendation tailored to your uses, but I hope this helps you find something that will meet your needs.
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I believe the Western Digital Passport series qualifies for the 7200 rpm speed but this USB powered drive is powered from the USB port with no means to power it with an external power source. If you must have an externally powered drive you might consider purchasing a external hard drive enclosure that supports that feature and a bare drive with compatible specs and then assemble them yourself.
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I have not personally tried a external hdd, I do know a xbox controller works, a keyboard and a mouse work, make sure the external hdd has its own power source as I tried using speakers and it fried my s3, and small usb flash drives also work,
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The drive works well. USB 3.0 is faster only if the computer being used is too. The drive is slightly smaller than WD, Toshiba, etc. But it is not significantly smaller or faster than a like WD. I think WD comes in 2TB for about the same price.
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External drive it is...I guess that's what you sacrifice for lightweight in a notebook! By the way, I am using this computer!
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Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
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I am using the slim portable external drive with a Lenovo Twist. It functions flawlessly.
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I`m not an expert, but in my opinion, you don·t need to do that. 128G SSD is enough. If you really want to do that. you may lose the guarantee. There are two ways to solve this problems.1 You can buy a mobile HDD. 2. You can buy a SD card . Have a good spring vacation!
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For anyone fairly familiar with computers, you could replace the hard drive with a ssd. However, this laptop boots in less than 20 seconds and runs quite quickly, so I feel confident I am getting a boost from the express cache built-in. Also, it has an amazing recover from sleep in about 2 seconds which makes it even closer to ssd performance. I have a desktop with an ssd for my boot drive, and I can tell you that even buying one of the best Crucial ssd's, they can give you more issues than a standard hard drive. No argument ssds are faster, just saying this hybrid express cache solution from samsung with a 7200 rpm hard drive is a good choice, at least for me.
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You will definitely need a 2.5" drive. If you are looking for more speed, choose a smaller SSD drive or at least upgrade to a 7200 rpm drive. If you need a lot more space, but not constant access to your data then you might consider a fast external USB drive.
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I've used a program called "HWinfo" on this specific external drive and it says it is a Hitachi at 7200RPM's. I recommend the Fantom brand just because of that honestly, Hitachi just doesn't make bad drives. PS. They are also known as HGST and are now owned by WD or Western Digital.
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None. You can buy an external USB drive or share a drive from another computer. We use our portable for that purpose.
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Dear Mr. Harris thanQ for your enquiry and the Thoshiba 128GB Q series Pro was replaced in my above mention laptop perfectely and working well. This new SSD Drive is running more speed than my old 500 GB mechanical drive after cloning on Windows 7 OS. Now I am using my old drive as external drive for the same laptop pc.
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I've only tried SSD but it worked great. Other units I tried had insufficient power to support the SSD.
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Unless you need super fast access or archival protection for your collection I would use a mechanical HDD. The extra expense and smaller capacity of the SDD would be a limiting factor.
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usb 3.0 is the best.. you need a fast DRIVES rpm to get that speed, make sure to get fast solid state drives SSD to be safe from accidents
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The drive is very quite for a large storage device. I have 2 hooked up and it's still quite. They only spin up when you need them.
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THANK YOU! I've never heard of an external DVD/CD-ROM drive so I truly appreciate the advice! Thank you!!