Comments on: Toshiba debuts with portable 200 GB drive

By: huge files

huge files — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:24:04 +0000

All you have to do is use WinRAR to break up the big files and then put them back together somewhere like an NTFS drive when you need it.

By: eh?

eh? — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:18:23 +0000

an actual model number would be nice in this review.

By: Wxn

Wxn — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:48:33 +0000

So correct me if I’m wrong but this new HD exceeds the 120GB limit for portable 2.5″ drives (powered by USB, so without the extra powersource)?

By: nonamo

nonamo — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:01:46 +0000

erm…. i have a 400gb portable hard drive at work?????

By: free wii

free wii — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:45:30 +0000

Jurgen: 3.5″ is a standard HD disk for PCs. 2.5″ is the ones laptops and portable HDs use.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:57:05 +0000

Dave your drive doesn’t let u copy your 7gb file, because your drive file system is FAT32.

By: elevis

elevis — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:42:15 +0000

@Dave
Not totally sure but:
You’ve probably formatted the external hard drive as FAT32, which can’t handle big files. Try formatting it as NTFS.

By: Equinox

Equinox — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:41:54 +0000

Dave, make sure you’re not using FAT32 on that drive, format on convert it to a filesystem that supports files bigger than 4GB (NTFS, ext2,3 reiser anything but fat)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:02:42 +0000

Looks a lot smaller than my one. Not being big headed just an improvement for convenience. I just hope they can transfer files bigger than 5 gb onto them. I’ve got a 250GB freecom external hard drive and it keeps teling me there’s not enough space to move a 7GB file (cnc3twke) into the 35 gb of available space which just isn’t right. I’ve tried compressing it, putting it into an iso file but I keep getting the same message “Not enough space try deleting 1 or more files” or something like that. Thank god they’ve printed that it can handle hi def movies onto it so it shouldn’t have the same problem as mine. 4.2/5 for the smaller memory. I’ll give them 5 out of 5 when they build an affordable terabyte model.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:00:55 +0000

If it works on linux, like ubuntu then it will be okay to get. Sometimes on linux the most minute thing takes minutes of installing random crap to make it work.

By: talkingbull

talkingbull — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:47:37 +0000

i’ve had a 250gb ex hd from toshiba for 6 months and the adapter lead made a popping sound and i smelt smoke obviously it was fucked,and pc world could’nt get me another and i did’nt want one if it’s anything like the funny connection adapter that i had on mine you wont find another anywhere in the end i had rip the hd st8 from it’s fort knox casing and stick it in my comp as a slave to my other 250hd so fuck pc world and fuck toshiba when i get another ex hd it wont be from either of thier akward asses.

By: tony

tony — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:52:43 +0000

In new zealand harvey norman a home applicance store opened a branch in lower hutt wellington.One of the opening specials was a seagate 250 gb drive it was reduced $100 fron 250 to 150 dollars.I got a bargain.

By: ma1kel

ma1kel — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:05:02 +0000

If it supports Windows and Mac, it’ll work perfect on Linux.

By: kronoxz

kronoxz — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:19:58 +0000

This is 2.5″. It doesn’t require power supply.

Anyway, cool stuff and nice software packaged with it

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:09:56 +0000

my computer doesnt have so much capacity, although I have a good WD external 40GB drive, works fine