
And there was me,
hoping you'd include my USB3.0 Toshiba Canvio drive...
USB 3.0 has been with us for nearly two years now, not that you’d notice, as adoption and availability of peripherals has been somewhat slow. However, things are looking up now as more and more portable HDDs are coming to market featuring the not-so-new interface. Here at Reg Hardware, we've put together a round up of the …
It was already the 20th when you posted! Rather than use some marketeer's future-possibly-not-true price, why not simply quote the actual price that of the thing at the time of writing? Or, at the very least, make it clear that the quoted price is in some way proposed/fictional.
It almost smacks of false-advertising and makes me wonder what else in the review was based on PR-puffery rather than actuality.
I bought a Samsung USB3 1TB drive over 2 months ago from Amazon (UK) for £70 (free delivery). Whilst this is an S2 not an M2 it's a good price, and it works.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-S2-3-0-Powered-Portable--Midnight/dp/B004AUDO86/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1311504142&sr=8-2
Not merely the lack of peripherals available on the market that the article refers to. Its only been relatively recently that people like Asus, Gigabyte and MSI have begun releasing mobos with native USB 3.0 ports. Any desktop that you might have (AFAIK) that is more than about half a year old will be most unlikely to have them and only a few pretty high end lappies released during the last year have them.
Getting hold of an adaptor should in fact be quite easy, Amazon has several pci express adaptors, for example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-USB-Express-Interface-Card/dp/B002WULN98/ref=sr_1_7?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1311209935&sr=1-7
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My Dell Vostro has a USB 3 port on it. I purchased it a couple of months ago - it's a Dell Vostro 3450 (standard Core i-5 [Sandybridge]) . You can find it here: http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/vostro-3450/pd
I haven't got a USB 3 drive yet but may well consider one now after reading these reviews - should make backing up a breeze without killing the laptop whilst running.
HTH
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Take a look at the connector to the drive.
Take a look again :)
I use mine on naked SATA drives, works a treat.
I vote the GoFlex USB 3.0 *ADAPTER* as best product.
The proprietary Seagate drives themselves appear reasonably well packaged. When connected up, the whole get up feels reasonably solid and reassuring. Sure, they are not as rugged looking as some of the offerings here, but the ability to just about grab any current SATA drive and connect it to one's USB 3.0 port cannot be underestimated, ie data recovery etc... Especially if your lappie doesn't have an eSATA.
or if you couldn't be arsed to buy a Seagate drive and just use naked drives....
I have a goflex drive too and I love it because my laptop has esata-p but not usb3, and my desktop has usb3 but not esata-p (it has esata but the goflex only provides an esata-p adapter); and as you said I can use all 3 adapters (usb2, esata-p and usb3) for my goflex on any other 2.5" hard disk :)
Interface flexibility is underrated.
Just had to return a 1TB WD Passport as it failed. I managed to get back the majority of the content on the but it fails all the WD tests (software included on the drive, luckily I'd backed that up).
It's interesting to note that the drive within the enclosure is directly wired to the usb hardware and is does not have a standard sata style drive.
I bought mine couple of weeks ago around 100 euros (~£90). Thus £130 sounds quite a steep to me. And it seems still to be sold around the same price point:
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/3322/cxbvb/Western-Digital-My-Passport-Essential-SE-1-TB-Red
500GB version would be yours in 73 euros.