By Andreas Lee

500gb external hard drive

Probably, you don’t know this enticing name of external hard drive, Vox Digital V1. For expanding media collection, Vox Digital 500GB external hard drive is a right device. This Vox Digital product can be bought at the best price below $100, suits for you who want additional 500GB external hard drive for your computer or notebook. Its incredible speed with e-SATA connector makes data transferring go smoothly.

The slim sleek design of Vox 500GB external hard drive is a reason to have it as portable device. With e-SATA mode, 3GB transfer speed can minimize your waiting time while transferring data from Vox Drive to computer or notebook

Pros

Vox Digital 500GB external hard drive is different from other general external drives since it supports USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 which delivers extremely fast speed. Your data is well protected within it since it has a strong case as your data bodyguard.

Cons

Underdeveloped backup software, iniBackup, included within this drive. This software scheduling features doesn’t run at the specified time, so you need to do backup job manually like drag/drop, or copy/paste and then create scheduled time. Therefore, you need to use another third party application as automatic backup solution like Acronis True Image or using this 500GB external hard drive without its backup software.

Specs

• Capacity size : 500 GB
• Spindle speed : 7200 RPM
• Buffer cache size : 8 MB
• Average seek time : 8.9 ms
• Form factor : 3.5 inches
• Manufacturer : Vox Digital
• Box included : drive, USB and e-SATA cables, power supply, software CD, and user manual.
• Platform : Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS9/X

Important: For windows 98 users, need to install the driver first to let Vox Digital V1 recognized by system.

Vox Digital V1 also available in 250GB, 750GB, and the largest is 1GB. All of them have a same simple stylish design with the blue status light like Vox V1 500GB external hard drive on the front side of this drive and black sturdy aluminum casing. It looks cool while being used, its body is completely black and the blue light flash gives the elegant impression. On the back side, all ports located include e-SATA and USB 2.0.

You can find cheaper price of Vox Digital V1 750GB only on:

• TigerDirect
• CompUSA

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By Andreas Lee

500gb external hard drive

Maxtor has a variety of external hard drive products that become their mainstay, but among these products my choice only falls on Maxtor OneTouch4 Plus 500GB external hard drive. The reason I really love this device is because of its elegant design, ability to handle data with backup scheduling feature, Maxtor DrivePass and Encryption feature that gives protection for password protected data in case of unauthorized use, and last thing which I like the most is its Maxtor SafetyDrill feature which help you recover your data due to virus attacks and system corruption.

The capacity of this 500GB external hard drive gives flexibility in storing data for personal use. You have more space for your valuable documents, over 10 000 hours of digital music, 150 000 digital photos, or 500 hours of digital video in one secure place.

For you who work in fast activities, Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus always provides what you want. This 500GB external hard drive 3.5 inch is connected via USB 2.0 with transfer rate up to 480 Mbps, excellent performing 7200 RPM spindle speed, and 16 MB cache which provides you a high quality performance for your back up data purpose.

Just like ordinary external hard drive, to run it just plug in and this 500GB external hard drive is ready to use.

Specs

• Capacity : 500 GB
• Rotational speed : 7200 RPM
• Buffer cache : 16 MB
• Interface : FireWire 400, IEEE 1394a, iLink and SBP-2 compliant; USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant
• Model : STM305004OTA3E5-RK
• Warranty : 5-year limited warranty
• Platform : PC and Mac
  

  Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus

System requirements (PC) : Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher; Windows Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business)/XP (Home, Professional, Media Center Edition); CD-ROM drive for Maxtor SafetyDrill; 256 MB RAM or more as required by operating system; Internet connection (for software updates)

System requirements (Mac) : Mac OS X (10.4.7 or later); 256 MB RAM or more as required by operating system; Internet connection (for software updates)

Take a look on the system requirements carefully before making a purchase on Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 500GB external hard drive.

Find the best deal of Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 500GB external hard drive only on Amazon and TigerDirect

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