The Ultimate portable 2.5″ HDD – FreeCom ToughDrive

Just when I tot I was king of the hill with my new Buffalo MiniStation, I spotted this on rachel2108’s dad’s table:

I’m gonna cut this short & explain why it surpass the Buffalo MiniStation:
pros:
durable soft silicon exterior coating (very grippy, personally experienced)
firewire AND USB2.0 interface
USB cable not only wraps around, but can be kept completely [...]

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Data migration

 

 
Finally I initiated data migration & consolidation of my portable storages into my new MiniStation. Feels good: write speed as follows:

Windows XP (with TurboUSB enabled): 1GB/min

Fedora Core: 0.65GB/min

Another migration coming along pretty soon…

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Items bought during IT Show 2008 – Part 3

Finally, we have the small players. Bought my set of 3rd-party inks for my still-incredibly reliable Brother DCP-115C printer (which I got for free with my laptop purchase). A full set of Brother ink (2 blacks + the 3 colors) will set you back close to $60 outside, but I got my 3rd party set [...]

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Items bought during IT Show 2008 – Part 1

The 1st IT Show of year 2008 is finally over. Previously, I tot I wouldn’t be getting anything there, due to the “GST” effect. But having my existing portable HDD keep running outta space validates the purchase of a new, bigger, better, faster, meaner mobile storage. Anyway my current one is a miserable 60GB(usable: [...]

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