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    WD's Ever-Smaller External Hard Drives Bring Better Security and Incremental Backups

    Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough

    DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle

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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/10/09

    In reply to WD's Ever-Smaller External Hard Drives Bring Better Security and Incremental Backups
    I have an old 320GB My Passport and 250GB My Book. While the My Book is nothing special (Lacie drives just feel more sturdy to me for the same size category) the My Passport is a brilliant little drive. It solves the biggest hassle I had with my old externals, while the drive itself wasn't overly massive they were still bulky and in addition you had to carry a cable and brick with it (adding the problem of finding a free socket wherever you wanted to set up).

    The Passport however fits comfortably in a coat pocket and all you need is a mini-USB and you're set. My only gripe with it (though this may have been resolved in the new passports) is that WD provide you with a very short USB cable for it and the drive is very fussy about using other mini-USB/USB extension cables. To date I've found one extension cable that works with it. So yeah minor issue otherwise they're actually pretty damn good.
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    Image of Death Death
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    I've owned way too many faulty Iomega products to ever consider buying anything else from them.
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    05/18/09

    @Death: I have only owned one, the Zip. Now whenever I see anything iomega I don't even bother.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Iomega eGo Hard Drives are good enough, smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like them.


    Fixed it.

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    Image of collectiveego collectiveego
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    sick, eGo is my steam id, crazy...i really want one now.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    @collectiveego: and what's your steam password?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    For a while, I've wanted a portable HDD that I could use on a laptop, but I was always on the fence about the quality of a lot of these things. Another issue was being able to easily open the enclosure up, and toss the drive if ever I wanted to upgrade, so I bought one of these...


    [eshop.macsales.com]


    All it really requires is snapping the drive onto the chipset then screwing it in place. I very much prefer these things over prebuilt portable externals.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Seems fair enough, until you realize this is the same company that made and then STOPPED MAKING the Zip drive.


    So yeah, sure, "pretty enough," "cheap enough" yada yada yada. But just wait until you buy one of these only to find out in 10, 20 years IOMEGA will STOP supporting them!

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    05/18/09

    @frigg: I was considering more the whole 'portable-click-o'-death' problem...
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    Image of szrimaging szrimaging
    05/18/09

    @frigg: Wait...you are getting at them for not supporting a technology that was passed by newer, better technologies that there was little to no demand for? Wow, just wow. Lets face it, the Zip Drive was doomed once portable hard drives like these became accessible.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/18/09

    @szrimaging: I'd say the SD card is the better replacement for the Zip drive than the portable hard drive. Only problem is that not everyone has a reader (I'm looking at you Apple).
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    @frigg: ... was sort of kidding about the OMG it will be obsolete in 20 years thing!!!... *shuffles back under bridge*
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    Image of diamonddnice diamonddnice
    05/13/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    looks like a dirty cow's ass.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @diamonddnice: Like there should be a cow's tail hanging down over that "hole" in the front?
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    05/13/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    Is leather sperm proof?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/13/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: While a classy alternative to mass-produced latex, those DIY leather condoms on instructables do not work as advertised. :(
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    Image of Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK
    05/13/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Speaking of sperm, which in turn has a relationship with STD's, which can be a virus: Remember kids, always put a condom on your USB devices to lessen the chance of getting viruses. No, I did not just go off topic.


    Why do you need to know if leather is sperm proof? Are you creating a leather condom? Or is it because you don't want it to get inside your HDD? (Which stores over a terabyte of porn)


    In other news, Xterm11 needs to go to bed.

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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    05/13/09

    @Xterm11 - The star commenter's minion: I had just gotten done reading bosskev's post...
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Hey, you crazy kids! Don't get me mixed up with your naughty talk! I am a well-bred and respectable man of the community with an honorable reputation to maintain.


    ;^)

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    Image of nathantrumbull nathantrumbull
    05/12/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    Nothing says 'I love you' like wrapping your women in cow hide.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    05/12/09

    @Nathan Trumbull: I say 'I love you' all the time by dawning leather… and whips… and using cuffs…
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    Image of Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK
    05/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Where do you live? Could I get an address, or a number?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Xterm11 - The star commenter's minion: Where does she live? In your dreams, buddy boy, in your dreams...
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    05/12/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle

    "DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is One Way to Hide Your Porn Collection"


    There were so many good words in that headline, Dan, such possibilities. "Leather-Bound". "Porn". "Hard". Even "DIY" (frequently, thank you!). So please forgive me for my disappointment at discovering this story was only about computer storage.


    * sigh *

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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    05/12/09

    @bosskev: Title change FTL.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Duckspwn: Aargh, you're right! Well, that's why I always blockquote anything I reference from a Giz article, you never know when your joke is going to be retconned out of existence--like here (although, not completely).
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/12/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    Eh....wrapped around an HD enclosure, it doesn't look so fantastic. I'd say it looks like a block of old cooked meat dragged out of the fridge.


    I wonder how much hotter it makes that MyBook drive. Those things are crap enough as it is.

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