Buy Samsung 500GB M2 Portable Brown Black, HX-M500UAB_GSamsung 500GB M2 Portable Brown Black, HX-M500UAB_G Product Description:
- USB 2.0, No power supply required
- If you need to take your multimedia content with you when you're on the move, the M2 Portable external hard drive from Samsung is a great solution
- Its 500 GB capacity ensures plenty of space to store hundreds of photos, music files and videos
- The handy USB 2.0 connection is used to power the M2 Portable and transfer files at a rate of 480 Mbps
- And because this external drive is compatible with PC and Mac, it's a versatile solution for any busy user on the move
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USB 2.0, 2.5
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Quiet, but USB 2.0 only.
By D. Martland
I bought a similar Samsung model from another supplier very recently with 750 Gbytes storage. Mine is described as a 750 Gbyte USB 2.0 device, though the instruction manual refers to a USB 3.0 interface, and a USB 3.0 cable. This is definitely USB 2.0, with a conventional USB cable.It seems that Samsung is updating its range, and it is likely that future models will be USB 3.0.Compared with the Toshiba E05A100SBU3EW_C STOR.E ART 4 1TB USB 3.0 2.5 inch Hard Drive - Black I bought recently for backup and music storage purposes, this one is much quieter, as I'd hoped, and doesn't raise the noise levels of my iMac significantly. I don't know whether the USB 3.0 models will be as quiet, or indeed why the Toshiba one is noisier. First impressions are that it is slower than the Toshiba, though I think it still did the complete Time Machine backup of my machine in around 9 hours. The comparison is on USB 2.0.The machine comes configured in NTFS format, and this is only readable on Mac OS X - not writeable. PC users should not have a problem with this.Mac users may wish to reformat to one of the Apple formats.FAT is also an option, though not a particularly good one if large files are to be copied and stored. If Mac users wish to retain the NTFS format for compatibility with other systems there is a software driver which can be downloaded from the Samsung site, and once installed this allows Mac machines to use the drive for reading and writing using the pre-configured file system.If you don't need USB 3.0 now, or anticipate needing it in the next year or so, then USB 2.0 drives are still available, and may work out cheaper, and possibly also quieter. For example, drives similar to this Toshiba 1TB 2.5 inch External StorE Art HDD are, in my experience, likely to be quieter than the USB 3.0 version mentioned already.For high speed use it's not absolutely clear what technologies will emerge as the leaders. Firewire does not now seem to have such an advantage, and devices with Firewire or other interfaces are generally priced higher, such as LaCie Rugged XL 1TB Hard Disk. There is now a Thunderbolt drive from La Cie, which offers up to 10 Gbps transfers, but as yet Amazon do not supply this.
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