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Interactive Media Kanguru QuickSilver 120 GB USB 2.0 Hard DriveKanguruQuickSilver FireWire and USB 2.0 hard drives provide incredible throughput speeds and Plug and Play ability! It's a great way...
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KanguruQuickSilver FireWire and USB 2.0 hard drives provide incredible throughput speeds and Plug and Play ability! It's a great way to add storage to your PC, notebook or Mac. Get huge capacities and lightning fast access to all your data! USB 2.0 is 40 times faster than USB 1.1, making it great for video editing, mobile users, data backup or simply increasing your computers storage space!
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Barely portable, slower than expected
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Pros: Big capacity
Cons: Big form factor, heavy, wall bug for power
The Bottom Line:
I would go for something easier to use, more along the lines of my no-brains-needed FlipDisk, which is great but has too little capacity.
The web site:
http://www.kanguru.com/35quicksilverhd.html
indicates that this thing is 7-3/4" x 5" x 1" and weighs a pound. It is 8-1/4 by 5" by 1-5/8 -- more than 50% than advertised. The web site says a pound; I'm guessing three. This drive is the size of a hymnal.
It also uses an external power adaptor. I guess I was hoping for USB power, naively perhaps. I also bought the USB 2.0 PCMCIA card for my 1.0 USB-capable Dell notebook. It has it's own power adaptor, so I have to carry two of the dern things. My desk is a tangle of cables: the two power cords, plus the USB cable from the USB adaptor to the external drive. I could not fit all this stuff into my generously-sized backpack, along with my Dell.
Speed is a disappointment, too. The web site says 700-800MB/minute. I'm getting about 500MB, with my 1 gigahertz Pentium III notebook (512K RAM).
Still, it's a big drive. I backed up my entire Dell and used just about a third of its capacity.
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