Product Description
Replacement Hard Drive for notebooks with 80GB capacity / 5400RPM
Customer Reviews:
As promised.......2007-11-02
I ordered a hard drive. The product was as promised and delivered as promised. I'll be back for more.
Product Description
Give new life to your notebook. Add gigabytes of additional storage with a SimpleTech notebook hard drive upgrade, which is easy to install.
Product Description
Give new life to your notebook. Add gigabytes of additional storage with a SimpleTech notebook hard drive upgrade. This drive is easy to install in most PCs and PowerBooks. Caddy is included with selected drives. Quickly and easily move the contents of your original drive to your new SimpleTech hard drive upgrade with a SimpleTech DriveLink data transfer kit (requires PC Card slot). Save hours of time.This hard drive is designed for the following systems:Dell Latitude CP M166ST;Dell Latitude CP M200SD;Dell Latitude CP M233ST with MMX;Dell Latitude CP M233XT with MMX;Dell Latitude CPi A300ST;Dell Latitude CPi A366ST;Dell Latitude CPi A366XT;Dell Latitude CPi A400XT;Dell Latitude CPi D233ST;Dell Latitude CPi D266XT;Dell Latitude CPi D300XT;Dell Latitude CPi R400GT.
Product Description
SimpleTech features a comprehensive line of hard drive upgrades for popular portables by leading manufacturers. SimpleTech designs its hard drive upgrades with your portable's special power and space requirements in mind. So you can be sure you're installing a hard drive that meets the performance and technical specifications set by manufacturers.This hard disk drive is intended for Dell Inspiron 4000 C600GW Celeron; Dell Inspiron 4000 R600GW PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 4000 R700GO PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 4000 R800 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 4000 R850 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 4100 1.3GHZ-M PIII; Dell Latitude C500 700 Celeron; Dell Latitude C500 800 Celeron; Dell Latitude C500 900 Celeron; Dell Latitude C510 1.06GHz Celeron; Dell Latitude C600 1.0GHz PIII; Dell Latitude C600 700 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Latitude C600 750 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Latitude C600 850 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Latitude C610 1.0GHz PIII; Dell Latitude C610 1.2GHz PIII.
Customer Reviews:
very very very very gooooodd.......2007-03-23
this item has a incredible price. this seller is the better.
Product Description
The STI-U2F36/250 Portable External Hard Drive is the compact and portable external hard drive is engineered for performance and reliability. It's ideal for any kind of storage need -- whether it's digital music, movies or photographs, you've got it covered. Fully compatible with system having a USB port. Capacity - 250GB Interface - USB 2.0 Data Transfer Rate - 480 Mb/sec USB 2.0, 400 Mb/sec FireWire Rotational Speed 7200 RPM Buffer Size - 8096 KB Dimensions - (HxLxD) 5.51 x 8.86 x 1.35 Box includes - External hard drive, USB 2.0 cable, AC adapter and power cord, StorageSync Software CD, Quick Installation Guide Supports Microsoft Windows 98 SE or later, and Mac OS 9.2 or later
Customer Reviews:
D.O.A........2007-12-31
After reading many reviews on Amazon, I purchased this SimpleTech External Hard Drive Firewire/USB 250G in April 2006. Like some of us, I procrastinated (backing up my data should be a priority, but isn't) and got around to using the drive today. I figured Dec. 31 would be before the New Year; a good New Year's resolution to not procrastinate. So, today I unwrapped it, plugged it in, followed all instructions, and discovered it is D.O.A. (dead on arrival).
The red light will come on indicating power, but the green light indicating hard drive activity is not lit. I have been through the troubleshooting guide. The green light was on for all of one minute indicating the drive was working briefly. The drive died within five minutes of opening the box.
Initially unwrapping the drive -- not using it; just opening it -- a couple of months ago, I noticed the A/C adapter was missing from the original package. SimpleTech sent me a new one. I do not think the D.O.A. is caused by the A/C adapter, since there is power to the drive.
I will call SimpleTech and swap out this D.O.A. drive. While disappointed that the drive is D.O.A, I am glad that I didn't transfer my data to it first, and then have it die. I cannot recommend this product.
Tried it in spite of poor reviews. Shouldn't have........2006-03-20
Setup was straight forward and for three days it worked fine. On the third day, I heard a loud clattering noise as though something came loose inside. The drive could not be recognized after that.
Based on some other reviews (one person had worked through 3 drives before success) I decided to get refund rather than replacement. I then purchased a LaCie drive and have been very impressed with performance.
Okay Hard drive but..........2005-12-30
As for the price, this is very nice hard drive. It has free space of 232GB and installation was not problem and it was shipped fast as well. This is quite light and design is pretty cool too.
However, the high pitch distracting sound (apart from the normal hard drive fan sound) gets my nerves often especially when I use it for a long time. Just reminds me when I took ear tests in high school. Remember those quiet but high pitch sound? Also the hard drive gets quite hot after an hour or so and it makes you feel like turning it off just in case the hard drive breaks all the files saved, (which happened to a lot of my buddies).
Unreliable. Stopped working after less than six months........2005-12-17
I had two of these devices fail on me in the span of one year! I bought this device with the intention of doing backups to a small group of servers in my workplace. One day I plugged in the USB 2.0 interface and nothing happened. The Power LED came on, but none of my computers would recognize the drive. Thank goodness the hard drive (and my data) was still intact. I had the hard drive removed and placed into another SimpleTech hard drive enclosure. It worked fine for about six months, then yesterday the same thing happened again! The hard drive comes on but my computers could not see it. I will never ever buy another SimpleTech product again.
Great Product.......2005-10-12
Here is my experience with the frive to date, if anything changes I will update this review.
The shape of the power plug is power surge friendly (yippee). My newer HP pavilion zd8000 laptop with Windows XP Media Center (in a docking station) recognized the USB 2.0 device and was ready to go in seconds. It was preformatted in NTFS. It has a quiet humm but easily tolerable. Since it was just recognized as another HD it was assigned the next availible drive letter.
The Backup software is impressive and requires an easy installation. It does not provide any built in disaster recovery. I already performed a full backup and will perform incremental backups once a week. For additional security I will still use a native windows backup copied directly to this drive. Backup options include a standard carbon copy type, a single file compressed (like a zip file), and a multiple archive file version.
I ran video and music directly from the drive with no problems or performance issues.
It was just what I had hoped for.
I have a suggestion to people backing up lots of digital video. Consider buying 6-8 packs of video tapes for approx $15 and using those to offload video. You get more MB for your dollar.
Average customer rating:
- One Hot External Drive
- It get hot and stopped working .
- A honest review
- Overheated, too noisy and very short-lived
- Overheated, crashed, lost data
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SimpleTech 400GB USB/FIREWIRE EXT HD DRIVE ( STI-U2F36/400 )
Manufacturer: SimpleTech Technology
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Cables To Go - 29554 - USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Adapter Card 5-Port
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Snap Server 1100
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7 outlet 1250 Joule Surge
Product Features:
- Connect up to 127 USB 1.1 & 2.0 devices to the hard drive, through USB hubs - or up to 62 FireWire devices
- No tools required for installation -- just one-step, plug and play
- Run backups automatically with StorageSync
- Stands vertically or sits horizontally
- Hot swappable
ASIN: B0002D6QO4
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Product Description
The STI-U2F36/400 Portable External Hard Drive offers compact and versatile design offers easy&expandable storage, combined with ultra-fast performance. Store all your important files, data and software in a rugged and sleek hard drive you can take anywhere. Fully compatible with system having a USB port. Capacity - 400GB Interface - USB 2.0 Data Transfer Rate - 480 Mb/sec USB 2.0, 400 Mb/sec FireWire Rotational Speed 7200 RPM Buffer Size - 8096 KB Dimensions - (HxLxD) 5.51 x 8.86 x 1.35 Box includes - External hard drive, USB 2.0 cable, AC adapter and power cord, StorageSync Software CD, Quick Installation Guide Supports Microsoft Windows 98 SE or later, and Mac OS 9.2 or later
Customer Reviews:
One Hot External Drive.......2007-05-14
Very little success with this drive. The case is made of thick aluminum. I disassembled the drive when it crashed after 4 months or so of using it as a backup device.
The Hitachi drive inside is wrapped in a lightweight aluminum shell that serves as the drive's connection mechanism to the outer case. The case is thick and has only about 9 small holes in the side -- not nearly enough room for air to get it. There is no internal fan. Before I would lock the drive up at night, I would have to let it cool for a half and hour it was so hot.
Not long after using it, the drive arm began banging the side of the case and that was the end of my data. Never had a drive die this soon.
Poor design. The 3-year warranty does you little if you have confidential data on your drive (like I do) and have to return it to get a replacement. What good is a warranty like that?
It get hot and stopped working ........2006-12-25
It gethot and stopped working,then the drive became unreadable.
A honest review.......2006-09-12
I'd like to share the reason for my discontent with this product. I would be highly suspect for any reviewer who gives this item more than three stars afterall, there's a reason the price to this ext hard drive dropped by half. I consider myself moderately capable and computer savvy; however, the installation for this product proved extremely difficult. Windows XP sp2 sets up firewalls that clashes with the installation of this equipment resulting in the infamous "error 53." After diabling all of my firewalls, I still was not able to map to the hard drive. I'm not sure how this company could possibly survive with such shotty programming. After much research on numerous message boards, I found that many others had the same issue and readily easy solution was available. The customer service rep is no help as she stated the obvious but did not give a methodology to fix the problem. Also, I can already see the overheat problem that the other reviewers have indicated.
Just fyi..
cheers
Overheated, too noisy and very short-lived.......2005-04-18
I bought the SimpleTech 400GB USB/FIREWIRE external hard drive (STI-U2F36/400 ) on the 25th of March 2005. It's absurdly hot and stopped working on April 14, 2005. Whenever I turned it on, it started to screech extremely loudly. After a while, the drive became unreadable. I lost all my backup data, including original data not stored on my computer.
So, unless you plan to use this for only 21 days, don't buy it. I bought it because the price was right but I will not trust SimpleTech with my data in the future.
Overheated, crashed, lost data.......2005-03-11
Just be sure never to leave this hard drive on for more than 6 hours, or else it will overheat and crash, like mine did. After looking at the design, I am convinced this is a design flaw, as I see absolutely no way for the heat to dissipate, unless you constantly blow a fan at it.
Simpletech offers a 3-year warranty for this product and was willing to replace my drive. However, my new drive overheats as well.
Please note also that Simpletech DOES NOT cover data loss. My tech support guy claimed he was going to help me recover my files, even though they aren't obligated to. Luckily, I did not trust him.
I bought a file recovery software, and though it took all weekend, I was able to restore most of my files. When Simpletech received my drive, they claimed that all the files were corrupt. Hey, if I can recover files, tech support really should, too.
The tech support person also would not admit that there was an overheating problem. When I asked him to check again (you can't miss the scorching hotness), he claimed he already threw my drive away. He was only good for sending me another drive, but not much else.
Please avoid this drive at all costs.
Product Description
Give new life to your notebook. Add gigabytes of additional storage with a SimpleTech notebook hard drive upgrade.This hard drive is designed for the following systems: IBM ThinkPad 770, 770E, 770ED;IBM ThinkPad 770X, 770Z.For a complete compatibility list please refer to the original manufacturer's web site.
Product Description
Give new life to your notebook. Add gigabytes of additional storage with a SimpleTech notebook hard drive upgrade.This caddy drive is designed for IBM ThinkPad notebooks.
Product Description
Give new life to your notebook. Add gigabytes of additional storage with a SimpleTech notebook hard drive upgrade. This drive is easy to install in most PCs and PowerBooks. Caddy is included with selected drives. Quickly and easily move the contents of yo
Product Description
SimpleTech features a comprehensive line of hard drive upgrades for popular portables by Dell. SimpleTech designs its hard drive upgrades with your portable's special power and space requirements in mind. So you can be sure you're installing a hard drive that meets the performance and technical specifications set by Dell.This hard disk drive is designed for Dell Inspiron 2500 1.0 GHz PIII; Dell Inspiron 2500 700 MHz Celeron; Dell Inspiron 2500 700 MHz PIII; Dell Inspiron 2500 800 MHz Celeron; Dell Inspiron 2500 850 MHz PIII; Dell Inspiron 2500 900 MHz Celeron; Dell Inspiron 2500 900 MHz PIII; Dell Inspiron 8000 1 GHz PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 8000 900 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 8000 C600XW Celeron; Dell Inspiron 8000 G600VW PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 8000 G700VO PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 8000 G800 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 8000 G850 PIII SpeedStep; Dell Inspiron 8100 1.3 GHz-M PIII; Dell Inspiron 8100 PIII; Dell Latitude V700 PIII Speedstep.
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