The good news about the Apricorn EZ Bus Mini 20GB, a USB bus-powered hard drive design for on-the-go backups, is that it works very well (if a little slowly), and even has a pretty nice suite of software if you’re using Windows (OSX can see the drive fine, but there’s no software). The bad news is that for about the same $200 or so price of the Apricorn EZ Bus, you could get a regular USB 2.0 or FireWire unit that uses standard 3.5-inch hard drives with at least five or six times the capacity. Of course, it would be nearly as portable as the iPod-sized Apricorns, and it would probably require its own mains power, but it would be bigger.
That being said, if you’re on the road, and looking for a cheap way to store some of your data, if not all of it, it looks like a pretty decent deal. Everything USB has a little price checker at the bottom of their review, and it looks like the 20GB model can be found for as low as $165; cheap enough that the “why not just buy an iPod?” argument is nullified, thankfully.
Read – Apricorn EZ Bus Mini 20GB [EverythingUSB]
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