Six 500 GB Cheap External Hard Drives Reviews And Recommend

Posted in Cheap by Manyu Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Currently several 500 GB external hard drive about 70 dollars have been already selling on external hard drive market. We can see HDD price will be getting lower and lower, to buy high-capacity disk drive will be the mainstream of the future. So here are six 500 GB cheap external hard drives reviews and recommend, help you to buy best cheap HDD.

1.Hitachi X-series 500 GB Cheap external hard drive reviews

Hitachi X-series external hard disk shape and SimpleDRIVE Mini Series has not changed and remains with the sleek lines of the design, overall appearance is excellent. Material respect, the use of the ABS plastic shell, the surface through the grinding treatment, excellent slip resistance. In the hard drive data protection also guaranteed .

SimpleDRIVE Mini Series LED lights in the X series of Hitachi external hard drives is also preserved to show the work of the current state of mobile hard disk. Similarly, X320 external hard drive also comes with Hitachi Local Backup software, automatic backup operation can be very convenient. Interface connection using the USB 2.0, the official data said its read and write speeds over 30M/20M.

2. Buffalo MiniStationLite Portable USB 2.0 500 GB Cheap Hard Drive HD-PE500U2

This hard drive is very simple and fashion in appearance design, suitable for gifts, men and women of all ages could use it. LOGO flashing lights unique style typical of APPLE, the official said there are six kinds of colors allows you to choose according to your own personal style: onyx black, ruby red, pearl white, space blue, cherry pink and gold limited edition, But now there is only 4 colors on the market.
Performance, this product uses a quiet low-temperature design, data transfer rate is 480 Mbps, supports the client system, Windows Vista, Windows XP, windows 2000. Also comes with encryption software, quick start guide, USB cable, power adapter.

3. Western Digital Elements Series 500 GB Cheap Hard Drives Reviews

Appearance size is 124.4×78.6×17.8mm, weight 155g. Built-in 2.5-inch notebook hard drives, 5400 rpm, 8M cache, it’s the original products.
WD Elements surface is black. Accompanied by silicone sleeve ends, to serve as the support legs of Elements. Can effectively avoid bump with desktop. And soft resin material can effectively damping and protect the hard drive security.

4. Seagate FreeAgent Go series 500 GB Cheap external hard drive reviews

It has 4 colors blue, red, white and black to choose from. FreeAgent Go with plastic packaging, can not recovery after open the package, to ensure that each new Seagate user to buy the real products – Seagate also emphasized the use of 100% recycled packaging materials
Seagate FreeAgent Go 2.5-inch external hard drive internal using 8M cache 5400 RPM hard drive, its shape is optimized again, size is 12.5 × 80 × 130mm, allows you to easily put into a pocket, while enjoying Seagate Technology’s top right shock crashworthiness design, and has a Seagate’s unique Design of digital encryption data security.
The new Seagate FreeAgent Go External Hard Drive using USB 2.0 standard interface, backward compatible with USB 1.1 specifications. Seagate FreeAgent Go Hard Drive also provide dedicated base (sold separately) and the original Seagate drive package for consumers to choose, can move the disk “erected” on the desktop, beautiful and practical.

5. Toshiba V4 500 GB Cheap external hard drive reviews

Appearance, the Toshiba HDD V4 Series Original size is 81 X 127 x 16.6mm, colors blue, tea green, flame red, white four kinds of amazing colors.
Its use USB 2.0 interface, the internal using 2.5-inch 5400 RPM with 8MB cache original hard drive, average seek time at 12ms, support Windows and MAC dual platform system, comes with backup software, and encrypted data with password protection and insufficient capacity Tips function.
6.Seagate Replica 500 GB Cheap external hard drive reviews

Appearance, the whole case was a white, a convenient black vertical expansion base, looked far from a place, much looked like a art, it is not surprising.
Seagate Replica 500 GB has very strong security, its complete PC backup system can easily backup all the data of the user’s computer, including operating system, programs and settings are complete backup down. USB 2.0 interface for the vast majority of computers. not need to use cumbersome installation process, but also without need any configuration.