stu1901:
how big is it?
im looking for a portable one, i know this isn't teschnically portable, but it looks pretty small
It's fairly chunky. In terms of measurements, it's way out of the credit card range, and probably into the King Size Snickers sort of area. It's about the length of a King Size Snickers, about the height of one on its side, and about as wide as maybe five or six King Size Snickers bars on their side and pushed together. Alternatively, it's about the size of a normal DVDRW drive. It comes with a power supply too (which isn't massive, about the same size as 3 Kit Kats stacked) , making it even less pocket-friendly for moving it around.
It's a fairly decent drive, mind you. Performance is rather poor (you're looking at about 30MB/s transfer rates maximum, which compares to up to 90MB/s trasnfer rates for internal Samsung Spinpoint drives costing less money), but the drive is blissfully quiet, and it seems quite happy to turn itself on and off automatically, which is a neat time-saving feature for the energy concious.
