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SimpleTech SP-U25/160 SimpleDrive 160GB 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Red) | 
| Brand: SimpleTech
Category: CE
List Price: $139.99
Buy New: $82.52
You Save: $57.47 (41%)
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3927
Color: Red
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 160
Size: 160 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
nv:Capacity (GB): 160
Interface: USB 2.0
Spindle Speed (RPM): 5400
Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Type: Retail
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: SP-U25/160
Model: SP-U25/160
UPC: 705487165340
EAN: 0705487165340
ASIN: B000LGC1Y6
Release Date: January 22, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 160 GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable hard drive for fast, reliable desktop or laptop storage | | • | 5400 RPM spin rate; 8 Mb buffer cache; transfer speeds up to 480 Mb/s | | • | Powers via USB connection | | • | Designed by Pininfarina, the designer of Ferrari sports cars | | • | 1-year limited warranty |
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Product Description
Its sleek lines and ultra-low profile styling makes you want to put it on a shelf and stare, but it easily slides into your pocket for ultimate portability. The new SimpleDrive portable has style plus. The stylish lines of the SimpleDrive comes from the designers at Pininfarina, the very same design firm that gave the Ferrari sports car its stylish lines.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Good for a Temp Fix, but Not the Most Reliable Hard Drive November 23, 2008
K. Paul (NJ)
I've had this hard drive for about a year now and have used it cross platform on any one of several computers I utilize during the school year.
(I'm a digital art major- all of my work consists of large file sizes and working between windows and mac OS alternately.)
It has served its purpose in that I have transported it daily from work to school to home to school again for the last 11 months. However, I'm having some recent problems that make me fear the safety of my data. (Two years worth of intensive digital art is NOT something I can afford to lose!)
1) Data has started to "ghost" when I work cross-platform. Not sure how common this is with external drives in general- friends have told me this happens sometimes. This is when your files start multiplying and showing up as semi-transparent duplicates of the original. I don't like it, and it's annoying to continually delete "ghosts".
2) On my "geek" computer at home, plugging in this hard drive now causes the computer to crash 98% of the time. The hardware is all high-end and surpasses my other computers, so I'm confused as to why this started happening. Randomness.
3) Most of the macs in our school computer lab will randomly not recognize the drive-- I have to play musical chairs to find one that will read it. This only started after reformatting the disk to FAT32.
With these above listed symptoms popping up within the last month or so, I just purchased a Lacie 1000GB ext. hard drive for perm. backup. I'll use this little guy for transportation as much as I can before it dies- but it seems to be getting very quirky, very quickly.
I can't trust this disk with my most valued data-- and that makes me very, very nervous.
Great September 5, 2008
S. Gay (Philly, PA)
This is a great product...sometimes have issues with recognizing the software but that might be an issue with my system. Great size/weight. Great color. Reasonable market pricing.
 SimopleTech external hard drive August 2, 2008
Barrett Orear (Dover, DE, USA)
I am very satisfied with this external hard drive. It has (of course), a lot of space, and, though the speed is 5400, not 7200 rpm, it is very quick of access, and ... here's a real plus ... it doesn't get fragmented as do any internal H/D. Why? Because it is not "actually" a part of Windows!
Also, I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, and until I obtained this H/D, I was very limited as to what apps I could run. But I installed them on this external drive, and the only connection with Vista, is a icon on the screen! Neat, huh?
Kudos to SimpleTech for this. Lastly, it was on sale at Compuplus, for $[...] off, so I paid only $[...] for it!
Check out ComPuPlus, and see whether it's still on sale. Or, use Shopzilla, I found it for even less that what I paid .. on amazon. Oh, well, it's well worth the list price in my book.
Barry
(borear@msn.com)
 Nothing but nightmares!! June 14, 2008
J. Symond (Hermosa Beach, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this drive last year hoping it would do exactly as it said it would. I use a MacBook Pro and travel often.
This drive has been nothing but a headache. Pretty to look at, but so far it has required me to use 'DataRescue' 4 x in the past 6 months alone just to find the files I have stored on it.
It seems a regular occurrence to be shown the dreaded 'drive not recognized' error when I attach via my USB port. My feeling is that it is far too fragile to travel with, despite advertising to the contrary and within that somewhat attractive exterior lies a VERY defective interior.
If you do choose to purchase this drive, you may wish to use it as a unique paperweight then back your data up with another device - one that actually works and doesn't lose everything on an all too frequent basis.
In this day and age, who has time for this?
works great, simple to use, does what its suppose to do... May 20, 2008
E. Suburu (Los Angeles, CA)
I have had this external hard drive for over a year now, and its perfect for backing up important files that will be needed in the future. Its as simple as using a thumb drive. Just plug it in and a prompt dialog box shows up where u can access all the files through windows explorer. It gets kind of annoying when other external drives try to run off their own internal software to try and make the product more impressive i guess, when it just makes for more of a headache. So this one is simple, and straight to the point, i only wish it could be smaller, but the shape is pretty cool.
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