Re: Portable Hard Drive suggestions for both PC laptop and/or iPad I??
Hi All,
I did a search here on Getdpi but didn't come up with or see anything substantial. MY question is sort of twofold.
I would like to get a fairly cost effective small portable hard drive for a older PC laptop that has USB 2.0. It would either be a 500 GB or 1TB drive, simply to download a large # of large image files for storage while on the go and later for transfer to a PC desktop. So many options and opinions out there regarding which one. My criteria is physical size (the more compact the better) and quality/reliability and of course read/write speeds. Not all USB 2.0 drives are the same in regards to read/write times. I'm not against getting one of the newer USB 3.0 drives to use with 2.0 laptop for now, making it useful on a newer laptop sometime down the road. Any suggestions with specific model name and #?
Lastly (and a seperate question), I had read somewheres of a portable hard drive designed to work with the iPad I (plug & play?). Any references to it and also how does this drive in terms of uploading/downloading speeds compare to the above senario, and is it viable for saving and then downloading large # of large image files to/from it as an alternative to using the PC laptop/protable drive described above?
Thanks for any info on these two questions!
Dave (D&A)
Hi All,
I did a search here on Getdpi but didn't come up with or see anything substantial. MY question is sort of twofold.
I would like to get a fairly cost effective small portable hard drive for a older PC laptop that has USB 2.0. It would either be a 500 GB or 1TB drive, simply to download a large # of large image files for storage while on the go and later for transfer to a PC desktop. So many options and opinions out there regarding which one. My criteria is physical size (the more compact the better) and quality/reliability and of course read/write speeds. Not all USB 2.0 drives are the same in regards to read/write times. I'm not against getting one of the newer USB 3.0 drives to use with 2.0 laptop for now, making it useful on a newer laptop sometime down the road. Any suggestions with specific model name and #?
Lastly (and a seperate question), I had read somewheres of a portable hard drive designed to work with the iPad I (plug & play?). Any references to it and also how does this drive in terms of uploading/downloading speeds compare to the above senario, and is it viable for saving and then downloading large # of large image files to/from it as an alternative to using the PC laptop/protable drive described above?
Thanks for any info on these two questions!
Dave (D&A)
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