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Dima   07-14-2005 at 12:11:59 PM

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Hello
What is the best portable HDD in terms of Reliability and cost?

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Anonymous   07-14-2005 at 06:37:54 PM
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Dima wrote:

> Hello
> What is the best portable HDD in terms of Reliability and cost?

Probably a used Microdrive bought off of ebay.

Now, perhaps if you specify a few parameters . . .

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Dima   07-15-2005 at 06:15:24 AM
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Thanks for your reply.
How reliable is Western Digital Passport 40GB USB drive?

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Dima   07-21-2005 at 11:13:03 AM
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Thanks J. Clarke
Why a used Microdrive?

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Anonymous   07-21-2005 at 04:51:41 PM
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Dima wrote:

> Thanks J. Clarke
> Why a used Microdrive?

The criteria were "reliability and cost", not "capacity" or "transfer rate".
A used Microdrive can be had dirt cheap, and they're designed to compete
directly with solid state CF memory, so they're made to be about as durable
as a hard disk gets.

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Dima   07-22-2005 at 04:42:31 AM
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What is the Microdrive capacity?

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