Product Review - @ADATATechnology HD650 2.5" External Hard Disk Drive #Gadgets

Hi Friends, 

We all love technology and with the increasing pixel size of the camera and the HD quality of movies, we all are always in need of digital space. Though there are newer cloud technologies coming into the market to make some space on our devices but then we are always skeptical about saving our data online as some events of hacking has showed us during the Game of Thrones episodes released online or the hollywood stars personal images going viral or various other data thefts happened on some of the online networks from big brands. 

I remember my journey of data crunching (as we may call it) to collect data from friends and relatives which is unique and not with me on their desktop computers. I used to take my 20GB hdd out from my desktop PC and then take it to the friend's house and get some stuff like mp3 songs, movies, books and softwares. I subsequently migrated to 40GB and then 80GB with an external hard disk casing setup brought by my brother from Singapore. When my brother bought a Sony PS3, he exchanged his 40GB hdd for 200GB hdd and I bought a small 2.5mm casing to use the same. It worked but as the movie size increased and the greediness to keep all the good movies on the hard disk, this space too became less and full. 

I bought one Transcend 640GB portable hdd from Nehru Place, New Delhi but that hard disk didn't lasted more than a year and died when I was using it to transfer data from some friend in London. It came with a 5 year warranty but could never got it replaced using the Brand's after-sales mechanism. Then I bought a Western Digital 1TB Elements hard disk which is still working with some bad sectors which I formatted after a span of 5 years losing some data in the process. 

Here in South Africa, I came across ADATA Technology's HD650 Portable 2.5" Hard Disk in 1TB version which was just 201 gram considering it has impact absorbing rubber coating and 3 layered construction to keep the original disks safe and your data intact. The hard disk is simply covered with a silicon case just like we cover our smartphones. Other than that it also has an exclusive plastic shock structure casing to take care of certain things silicons covers are not able to. To add extra protection, the hard disk is equipped on a cushioned mounting making it unique and great on paper. 

The hard disk looks good and the plastic case is resistant to any types of scratching and marring. The transfer speeds are fast with compatible USB 3.0 interface. It's backward compatible also which means you can still use the same with your old laptops or desktops with 2.0 USB type connection. The approximate actual hard disk capacity is generally 93% of the total marked by manufacturers so we get around 931 GB on this one. 

The transfer speeds are great on my old Dell laptop which has a USB 3.0 interface and I could transfer the movies and data from my laptop to the hard disk very fast and same was true when I returned the data back to the laptop. I was not brave enough to play with the review hard disk and throw the same on the ground but I felt it can take some rough handling and can be used when you are on a traveling as the build quality is nice.

I am thinking of buying another one to use it for all my travel to different locations and as and when I stay in any of the hotels with big TV and entertainment units, I can plug in my own content in the NTFS formatted hdd as most of the smart TV's are Linux based and unable to recognize FAT32 formatted hard disks. Adata offers a 3 years warranty on it's HD650 and is available in Black, Blue and Red colors. I really loved the Red color in this hard disk.

Go checkout the Adata HD650 if it suits your requirements and check out some of the other products by the brand too.

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Product Review – Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive – 3 TB @Seagate

Hi People, 

I have been always a data cruncher which means no matter what’s the source, I want all the data downloaded on my laptop. Due to this tendency, I have always been short of hard disk space. As in South Africa, Internet usage is the most expensive thing to do and you will be sharing the movies/music or other important data only using your portable HDD's or ever-increasing capacities of pen drives. 

My journey with portable hard disks started when my brother gifted me his 40GB HDD from his Sony Playstation 3 and replaced the PS3 with 200 GB one way back in 2009. It was good to have and really sorted out my need at that point in time but as HD data started to come into the market, so was the need to store the same. 

I bought a Transcend 640 GB HDD on my birthday from Nehru Place, New Delhi, India and took the same to London. It was working fine but one day when I was copying some 100GB of songs from a friends laptop, it got corrupted and since then it's not been working. I have contacted customer care but all they say is that your cable is not right whereas I am using the supplied cable. Pathetic! Never ever I thought I will buy Transcend ever again. 

I was in London and Curry's offered a deal on Western Digital Elements portable 1 TB HDD and I bought it in 2010. I do think about it as it was more of an American brand which was not much popular in India and the UK. But nevertheless, I bought it and made my friends bought the same also. I blogged about the same here and it's one of my top posts. It's working perfectly well and in full capacity but then I wanted more data to be stored. The more you capture photographs or video's, the more you require disk space in your laptop or HDD. All my multimedia devices were full and took a long time to start also. 

Hence the decision to buy Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive with 3 TB HDD capacity so that I can just dump everything in one corner of my room and if required can refer back to the same. 

It's an awesome and beautiful device which offers 2.72 TB of space to users. The transfer speed is based on USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 connections. It took some time to transfer data but all my devices are able to breathe freely now with much more memory available for Operating systems to do their cleaning and regular stuff. 

I got this one from an electronics store - DION WIRED which offered the same on sale at R1400 from its regular price of R1900. It was much cheaper here as compared to the Indian market and my friend immediately wanted one for his Nikon D600 photography and his trip to GIR National Park where he captured 72GB of images in a span of 2-3 days. His camera is featured on my blog here. 

The online reviews for this HDD are not so great but I need to try it further to believe in them. Till that time, I am taking it ahead with my gut feeling and copying all my personal stuff etc in the same. I hope Seagate has not lost out on customer grievances as Transcend and will fully replace my device in case something crashes, unlike Transcend where that 640GB HDD is kissing the dust in my store at Gurgaon. 

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Western Digital - My Passport Essential SE 1TB Portable Harddisk

Hi Guys,

I was always a data cruncher meaning that I was always on a look out of songs, videos, books etc from friends, internet etc. Earlier I used to carry the hard-disk of my desktop at that time it was something of the size of 40-80 gb capacity. As time progressed, I bought this Transcend 640gb hard disk on 22 July 2010 but that didn't worked well and lost all my data by June 2011. At that time I had to invest in another hard disk as I got the transcend one from Delhi and I was in London at that point. I still have that hard disk as I couldn't complaint to Transcend for the same, but at the time of writing I think this month I will file a complaint. 

Coming back to the buying decision, I had listened about Western Digital but never thought that their hdd will be so small and great in looks. I went on to see the same at the nearest PC Curry showroom and saw the one kept there. I compared the prices with their online store and found out that there is a scheme going on where we can get the same 1TB hdd at cheaper rates of around £65 only using some codes etc.

I ordered the same in  Sep 2011 and got the same within 2-3 days time. This is the amazing piece of technology which has kept my data safe till now and I am really happy with my purchase. To add to my love, I ordered the same model for 3 of my friends and they were equally happy with the purchase. 

I hope that as now the 2 years limited warranty will end but my data will remain safe inside the walls of the hard disk. 

More information at - http://www.wdc.com/en/

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