Hitachi (HGST) Touro Mobile MX3 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive 2.5" External HDD, USB Powered 0S03460
USB 3.0
5400rpm
More info: http://www.touropro.com/product/touro-mobile/
They're selling it for $69
Looks like quite a good deal considering the same drive resells for over 90 on other sites.
I'm getting one.
$12.95 to Sydney
is the USB port attached to the hdd? can it be removed to use as normal SATA drive?
Yes, the touro 1tb usb3 drives I bought several months ago (same price as this) are native sata drives inside.
Thank god for that.
Be aware it might not be new, could be a return.
The last drive I got from Shopping Square had someone else's files on it.
Are Hitachi drives any good? I remember the last one I had could never load properly in the end and turned into e-waste. Having said that, this was back when 1GB = $1…
They're just as bad as all the other brands. :)
Specs posted via the link have:
Data Transfer Rate: up to 480Mbit/sec
Which would make it USB 2, not USB 3?
Well the drive is unlikely to exceed that number anyway, but you are right it is confusing information.
The drive will easily exceed that number. If fact, real-life USB 2 performance is about 25 Mbytes/s, whereas you can easily get 100 Mbytes/s on USB 3 with the same 5400 drive. That's at least 4 times faster.
Would make a good christmas present
Cheaper to just buy a 1.5TB Portable WD Elements Drive to for $99
If by 'cheaper' you mean 'not cheaper' then sure.
Prob should have said "cheaper per TB"
Yeah that's what I meant cheaper per TB.
Please fix the description. The MX3 is 5400rpm the PRO is 7200rpm.
anyone bought from these guys before?
I have heard mixed reviews
Yeah, don't buy anything from them where if the product fails, you have to contact them for support. Coz they have no support. They're a joke of a company. Don't have a contact phone number of email address, all done through a poorly controlled ticket system. Only buy stuff from them if you don't care about warranty or if you can go straight to the manufacturer. I almost had to go to the magistrates court over a warranty issue. It was never fully resolved but i gave up chasing it up after 8 months. Wasn't worth my time and effort any longer.
Great for cheap HDMI cables and microSD cards however :)
I bought a microSD from them in Aug last year. microSD decided to die last month, two weeks before warranty expired. claimed warranty and received a brand new replacement within days
Maybe they are improving, but looking online you see more horror stories than good stories. What gets me is that you cant actually contact them directly if they dont want to answer their support tickets. No contact phone number or email address is available. I sent about 20 messages over 8 months, maybe 6 were responded too, with an average response time of 3-5 weeks. Thats just abysmal. I actually wrote them a physical letter haha. But yeah I'm still quite tightly wound over the whole ordeal. But as always YMMV.
Thanks OP, I had been researching 2.5" drives this arvo and was just about to spend $68 delivered on a 500GB 2.5" drive to put in my PS3 but thought I had better do one last OZBargain check before ordering and then saw this post, a few searches indicate this should be able to be removed from case with normal drive inside so fingers crossed. only $15 extra for double the space, plus the enclosure. excellent
Isn't 500gb max a ps3 can take?
Apparently as long as it's not more than 9.5mm thick it works fine.
no matter what SQ post, negative!
u guys will find out why would i do this once u deal with them.
That's helpful. Care to elaborate?
They've stung a lot of people with very poor support and very slow responses to warranty requests
Question:
What's faster (in terms of reading and transfer rate)?
-USB 3.0
5400rpm
or
-USB 2.0
7200rpm
No simple answer as there are heaps of assumptions here.
Firstly:
USB 2/3 is mostly limited by the bus not the maximum speed. If you have a much of dodgy USB devices on your USB2 controller it will pull everything down. USB 3 mostly gains from having a separate data channel (but still shared between USB3 devices) rather than specific numbers.
Seconldly:
Disk RPM is an indicator of access speed at best. Higher density drives read/write more data at the same rotational speed. Also depends on where on the disk the data is and many other factors (like is the data in a solid block, or spread out, then you have seek times to consider).
Thirdly:
Magnetic drives have an amount of cache that is very fast. If you write less data than the cache amount it will be very quick, but then slow down heaps once you have to wait for the drive to write to the actual disk.
Generally speaking disk read/writes on 5400 RPM will flood USB2, but not by much (if the bus isn't congested).
tl;dr:
USB 3, 5400rpm.
please include postage in title.
It is $13 to Brisbane.