Toshiba 40GB My Portable Peripherals 1.8-Inch Hi-Speed External USB Hard Drive 29.98 Shipped

Toshiba 40GB My Portable Peripherals 1.8-Inch Hi-Speed External USB Hard Drive 29.98 Shipped
Expires..at the end of the day of course.

1.8-inch Pocket Hard Drive
Compatible with Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS 9.0 and above
Plug and Play
USB 2.0 Connectivity (cable included)
High-Speed Interface
Slim and Stylish Design
Aluminum Casing

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I'm surprised nobody posted it yet because I can't seem to find a price like this anywhere, especially on a name brand.

Several 40gb usb drives on eBay in the low $30's and not many others elsewhere, so this does seem like a fairly good deal to me. 40gb is way more than I'll ever need for a light weight, small, portable drive like this, so thanks for the post.

with the case, it doesnt look all that smaller than regular 2.5" externals. dont waste your money on this.

This would be hot if the drive inside this thing fit in a iPod Mini. I don't think it will, but I suspect it might fit in regular iPod.

I think ipod mini use CF flashcard which is a lot smaller-people used to salvage the flashcard back when its was expensive ($200)
All hard drive ipods use Toshiba hard drive- include 2.5 and 1.8 drives since I can remember. I dont think Apple has ever use different drive manufacture beside Toshiba but I havent keep up with that info since iPhones

STL said: This would be hot if the drive inside this thing fit in a iPod Mini. I don't think it will, but I suspect it might fit in regular iPod.

flowindex said: Anyone know how it compares with a 2.5" speed wise?

1.8" HDD are generally slower than 2.5". I believe it should be 4200rpm instead of 5400/7200rpm. On other hand you will be limited by USB speed and hardly notice the difference.

Does anybody know what is the size of the enclosure?

PS. Never mind - found it. 96mm x 59mm x 10mm. Credit card is 85mm x 54mm

Don't know others, but shipping kills the deal for me.

Thanks, OP. Seems like lots of convenience for less than $30.

is there a IDE or SATA in this enclosure? My X40 laptop will need a spare HDD soon.

searched at eBay, it seems Toshiba offer ZIF IDE only, so it won't fit in X40 laptop

dwkor said: arribasn said: slower and less reliable than SSD for about the same price, not sure I would go for this for general storagge, only if you need it for a specific application

Can you please post the link for the deal with 32-40Gb SSD/USB Flash Drive for ~30?I second that request!

Hard to find much of any information on these. I wonder if Toshiba bought out this "My Portable Peripherals" company. The closest thing I can find to reviews are from about a year ago, and it sounds like they could potentially have some durability issues:

http://www.kokeytechnology.com/hardware/peripherals/my-portable-peripherals-4gb-usb-drive-prices-features-and-review/

Still, for $25 bucks, it might be worth the risk.

thanks OP!

jefflichten said: Hard to find much of any information on these. I wonder if Toshiba bought out this "My Portable Peripherals" company. The closest thing I can find to reviews are from about a year ago, and it sounds like they could potentially have some durability issues:

http://www.kokeytechnology.com/hardware/peripherals/my-portable-...

Still, for $25 bucks, it might be worth the risk.

I would not be surprised if the item in fact is not manufactured by Toshiba. It could be just Toshiba 1.8" HDD in generic "My Portable Peripherals" enclosure.

dwkor said: jefflichten said: Hard to find much of any information on these. I wonder if Toshiba bought out this "My Portable Peripherals" company. The closest thing I can find to reviews are from about a year ago, and it sounds like they could potentially have some durability issues:

http://www.kokeytechnology.com/hardware/peripherals/my-portable-...

Still, for $25 bucks, it might be worth the risk.

I would not be surprised if the item in fact is not manufactured by Toshiba. It could be just Toshiba 1.8" HDD in generic "My Portable Peripherals" enclosure.

I hope that's the case. Either way, it's a very good deal for a portable drive of this capacity, and at 1.8" size, still a "pocket size" like it says. I'm in for one. Thanks OP!

kfer said: This may be a dumb question but is this compatible with Windows 7?

According to the website, yes.

groch said: The 1.8 drives were last made about 2006. If you are familiar with classic iPods, you know that are far more fragile than solid state storage, and because they are 4200 rpm with very small platters, they are slow as well. If you google search "My Personal Peripherals" and Toshiba you will see they were being blown out in huge lots by a Vietnamese auction house. I would bet the warrantee is backed by SaleADAy.

Well, you are right. On other hand 1.8" should not be far less reliable than 2.5" drives. I would not worry a lot as long as hdd itself is not off-lease.

There are 2 problems with 8Gb x 5 usb flash drives. First, if you need to deal with the files > 8gb. Sometimes it's the case for me. Second, I own 4 usb drives in 4-8Gb capacity and either of them are slow in write speed (about 6-10MB/sec). This one should be closer to 20Mb/sec. I bet, there are fast flash drives on the market, but the price would be much higher.

Only good thing about this deal is the pocket size. If you can live with regular 2.5" enclosure, this deal does not make sense at all.

Not able to use/format these yet, tried Vista and Win7 so far.