HITACHI X Mobile 500GB 2.5" Black External Hard Drive

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Compact, sleek hunting design and quiet operation if it operates. I purchased two of these devices. One particular to be used with an somewat older Computer and the other to be utilised for supplementing my PVR. The drive will not run on my new PVR and calls for two USB ports to be able to power-up on my desktop. Also terrible Hitachi decided not to incorporate a power adapter as it would seem that this is not an uncommon concern with this device. No matter if or not other brands are as energy hungry I cannot say but I absolutely can not advise this product for this purpose. I went hunting for either a universal energy supply or powered USB replicators and discovered that they variety from ษ and up. adding that to the expense of these drives tends to make them uncompetitive and not worth the expense.

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N/A similar issue here! not operating.. Cease after couple minutes. lights on but not recognized by pc.

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Nice cost, easy plug and play. Bought for the wife to backup all her images and videos into one spot. utilizes a double usb plug for further energy, but I guess that's better than having a seperate ac adapter.

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Wonderful looking, light weight, simple to hook up. Defective on arrival. When power applied, drive went into continuous recalibrate cycles (click, whir, click whir, ....) I sent this a single back for replacement simply because I've had great luck with Hitachi two.5" drives in the past. Hopefully the subsequent 1 will be a winner. Manufacturer Response:Thanks for your post. Drives may exhibit the clicking and knocking when they don't receive sufficient energy to operate adequately. This is why the drive is supplied with the USB "Y" cable, as a lot of PCs can not supply adequate energy from just 1 USB port, and our clients have asked for a bus-powered remedy. Also, a lot of folks have a lot of peripherals connected to the pc, and they as well rob the pc of precious energy. There is a power supply port for the optional AC adapter to be employed. If you want much more support, please call HitachiGST Tech Support M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214 and a technician will be pleased to support you.

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Quiet/Small/No Heat/BIG Capacity None Very good purchase for the $ - I have 2 and use them with Ubuntu laptops and have by no means had difficulties. Yes - they do use a 1mini -> 2 normal USB connector so it will need two USB connections but what do you anticipate at 500gb... and tiny transportable. Extremely nice to NOT have to plug in external energy. Mine have in no way "dropped" or "disappeared." You mount it and it's good - I coppied one hundred+GB of data to it to transfer data from one firm internet site to an additional for the duration of a coaching session.. Flawless.

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looks like an alien spaceship engineering failure.appear at the pictures of this drive. See how on the image of the back of the unit there are two holes? One particular is for a USB cable(included!) The other is for a power cable(NOT Included!)quite a few many several asian companies threw together these cheapy external hard-drives that have been originally intended to have an external(non-usb) power supply. Then immediately after the design and style phase was over, and production had begun some idiot CEO decided the USB port must provide enough power to operate a really hard drive. Properly that CEO was correct, it should. So a couple of tweaks were made, and the CEO in all probability got a big bonus by saving hitachi 50 cents per unit production cost by not such as power cables just like a lot of other external HDD producers did. However, the engineers that designed the drive assumed it would have external energy, hence when you connect your HDD, it might or may possibly not spin! yay!If it doesnt spin, you can email hitachi and they will send you a power cable LOL! accurate story! A usb port delivers sufficient power to function this drive. ...Often. lol. But below duress, the point can not spin with just USB power. The exact same exact engineering/production failure occurred with IOmega, hitachi, and numerous other external HDD suppliers. It's best to avoid these items. look at the images of a tough drive you may well want to acquire. if the drive has a hole for a power cable, but a power cable is not included, you need to avoid that item. If you have already purchased a lemon like this, and you have important data on your HDD, you can get in touch with the manufacturer and they will mail a energy cable to you totally free of charge. yay Manufacturer Response:Thanks for your post. Drives may exhibit the clicking and knocking when they don't obtain enough energy to operate properly. This is why the drive is supplied with the USB "Y" cable, as many PCs can not supply adequate energy from just a single USB port, and our consumers have asked for a bus-powered option. Also, numerous persons have quite a few peripherals connected to the personal computer, and they too rob the laptop of precious energy. There is a power supply port for the optional AC adapter to be utilized. If you require much more help, please contact HitachiGST Tech Assistance M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214 and a technician will be happy to aid you.

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Cost was suitable, slim transportable style, holds a enormous quantity of data, appears quite cool, Windows XP recognized it appropriate out of the box with no difficulty.When it works, this drive is fantastic. See below. This drive does not come with an external energy adapter, in spite of possessing a construct in port for a single - out of the box, it is powered solely by USB, and will take two of your USB ports.I noticed more than the initial week or so that the drive was sometimes not showing up or just dropping off my laptop randomly. It would also spin incessantly. When in a even though when actively in use, it would disconnect itself.I found this to be terribly frustrating. After a bit of study, I have determined that the drive simply sucks additional power than the twin USB ports can supply, specifically in the course of startup (especially when the computer initially comes out of hibernation.The option to this (I think) is to purchase an AC power adapter specifically for the Hitachi drive, in addition to the two USB ports. I will be carrying out this within the next couple of days and hopefully it will solve this concern.It's just irritating to get a thing that doesn't have the right power needs included. I did not purchase this drive from Newegg simply because I identified a nearby vendor with a much superior cost.I am employing the following specs for the AC power supply, supplied from Hitachi Client Assistance:five volts1 amp or greaterCenter Good (tip size three.4mm OD x 1.3mm ID)Hopefully this will resolve the troubles, or this drive is acquiring RMA'd and I'm under no circumstances touching Hitachi once more.

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I feel its great. I don't recognize the men and women saying it takes up two usb ports when it, at least for me, clearly does not. and I've managed to back up tons of pictures drivers and music񢌘 songs) none.

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Small, light and so far definitely trustworthy. Plugged it in, my Vista 64 bit method recognized it and had it prepared to use in less than 15 seconds. Have transfered different amounts of information from my two fixed drives to it and all went smoothly. None that I have encountered so far. Got this on a St Patrick's Day particular for แ.99 w/free shipping. Was at very first cautious because many evaluations right here have been damaging. Nonetheless, if you study by way of all the critiques, you come across that men and women with newer machines and lots of power to their USP port (like myself) have had no troubles with this unit. I have a two year old mid-variety MSI motherboard, dual core 3.2 Ghz processor, eight gigs of ram and an 850w energy supply. While this drive comes with a USB "Y" plug, I only utilized one particular and it operates perfectly fine with no noise and little to no heat even when transfering information to it. Based on my knowledge, this is a encouraged purchase for these who have a machine that can manage it.

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Operates as it really should requires up tiny space No instruction manual...Sent a query to Hitachi tech assistance by no means got an answer guess they were to busy to deal with customers.

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Could have exploded into flames, but did not. Could have been broken a month following use, in which case I would has lost all my information. Could have provided me VD, but quite certain it also has not completed that. All it does is make a clicking noise and light up. I still have my overall health, but since this is over a month old, I cannot RMA to NewEgg... these guys utilised to be awesome about this.

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Sleek design. Sturdy package. Top quality material. Extremely very good transfer speed compared to other 2.5" HD i've owned. Quiet and no heat. The USB connection from the cable is a bit loose for my taste (compared to other 2.five" HD i've owned). Performs excellent. Compact and 500GB is plenty of space. Hitachi HD brand is dependable.

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None DOA

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Significant 500GB storage, smooth cover, cute small lights on the bottom of the device, quiet, tiny, properly portable... every little thing I wanted, I got but eve much better, I got it on specific during the valentines day weekend (Thursday). The plastic strip fro, below the device kept coming out (the light cover) and you would have to push it back into spot. But that's just possibly from shipping and doesn't impact the way it operates. Good Deal... nicely worth it...

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tiny portable mass storage, great design even though not excellent doesn't play great on all systems and OSOther believed pt. 1:I purchased this drive on special from newegg to consolodate the two drives I have on my WD Tv HD Media Player, when I hooked it up to my desktop tower (XP sp3) employing just the information plug without plugging in the other usb power plug it started out producing the clicking sound, so I plugged in the other USB and the process located it and I was capable to access it and I re formatted to NTFS and started out to copy the contents of my old drive by means of beyond compare, it copied about half of the data then it reset and a new autorun window popped up and I had to restart beyond evaluate and it copied far more and reset once again, I managed to get all the information and it reset once more. at this point I was ready to rma it, so I booted the ultimate boot disk and wiped the drive which took 8 hours but it in no way reset. so I decided to give it another try I formatted it NTFS and hooked it up to my laptop (windows 7), I repeated the transfer but only about 100 gig and then hooked it to the WD Tv HD Media Player with the single USB cord from the old drive, it was located, I played a film, no issues, I hooked it back up to my laptop and transferred the rest of the old drive, and the second drives contents, hooked it back to the WD Television HD Media Player and it is operating fine. As far as I can tell from the other critiques this drive demands a lot of power and some systems don't offer it by means of the USB ports, and there might be anything with the Windows XP driver. All in all if it performs with your technique its a good drive, and a great newegg deal, sadly I don't know what to tell you about how to uncover out if you have sufficient juice with your technique other than to acquire it and attempt, and I guess if it don't work newegg will rma it so ask yourself "do you really feel lucky punk" Manufacturer Response:Thanks for your post. Drives may possibly exhibit the clicking and knocking when they don't obtain adequate energy to operate appropriately. This is why the drive is supplied with the USB "Y" cable, as several PCs can\'t supply enough energy from just one particular USB port, and our prospects have asked for a bus-powered solution. There is a power provide port for the optional AC adapter to be used. If you need to have a lot more support, please contact HitachiGST Tech Assistance M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214 and a technician will be happy to aid you.

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Smaller, quiet, portable, performs good with laptop, desktop or gaming system without need for addional energy supply beside the USB. Low speed transfers capable on single USB, high speed with two USB port or common five.0V wall wart left more than from one thing else. Even with several ƕ) of these operating we have by no means lost information or had they drop out on their personal on something we have utilised them on. We had 1 of five go DOA within 36 hours of use beginning (typically when a tough drive will give it up if it is going to) but they tradeout was handled by the seller quite professionally. I have had several of these from different places, can't see how these or the 320gb version can lead you astray.

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Inexpensive. DOA. Plugged in and it began knocking instantly. Tried it on a handful of machines, identical result on all. Utilizes a "Y" USB adapter to energy the drive, doesn't matter if each ends of the "Y" are used, the knocking persisted. Avoid this. Seriously. Just prevent it. Newegg to the rescue. Rapid, painless RMA.

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Smaller and sleek No power cable; will not back up laptop 100%. I have attempted 3 times now to back up my wifes laptop and all three times it will show 99% conplete but not one hundred%? Seriously? And, all 3 instances it took over 4 hours to back up about 90 GB of information? This is not proper. I feel like I lost my funds on this prodect! PLease newwegg, quit carrying this item as it does not carry out like it is advertised. Do not buy unless you want to back up only a few GB's of facts and if that is the case, by a memory stick...

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looks cool. requires no additional power supply came formatted to fat32. dumb me didn't believe to check prior to copying enormous files to iti'd think most customers would have the best results with ntfsnot a key con, but worth noting

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newegg mentioned they would send me a printable return type lights worked, but drive didn't - only clicking noisetried on three computers - often worked on 1 laptop or computernever on other two really should be shipped with energy cord!!! Manufacturer Response:Thanks for your post. Drives may possibly exhibit the clicking and knocking when they don't receive enough power to operate adequately. This is why the drive is supplied with the USB "Y" cable, as many PCs can not supply sufficient power from just one particular USB port, and our buyers have asked for a bus-powered answer. There is a energy provide port for the optional AC adapter to be applied. If you need to have more aid, please contact HitachiGST Tech Assistance M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214 and a technician will be happy to enable you.

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Tiny, quiet, doesn't demand yet another wall-wart. Plug'n'Play at its greatest, only connect to USB and it's there. Contains pre-loaded tutorial and comes with back-up computer software if you care to install it. It even comes formatted FAT 32, and is equally at house plugged into a MAC. Though I preferred to have NTFS, conversion is easy without reformatting.I've only had it a short time, but it appears to be everything you would count on, and a bit more. Indicator lights would lead one particular to think that it is generally spinning, regardless of power options settings. I'm nevertheless trying to get to the bottom of this concern. At initial, I was a little disappointed that it did not come with much more printed info. I became much less disappointed when I realized that it came pre-loaded with a fantastic tutorial. Back to a little disappointed when I determined that the software program details did not address my one query.That mentioned, the drive could not be less difficult to use. It is powered by its USB cable, therefore simplifying use and transport. The drive and cable will effortlessly fit into an auxiliary pocket in a laptop bag. The cable incorporates two USB connectors on the computer end, and I think there is fairly a bit of confusion surrounding this. In reading about it in a Computer Planet assessment, the second connector is just to present further energy if your Pc's USB ports are present-limited on the five Volt line. It does NOT make the drive more rapidly, and you will most certainly NOT even need to have to use it if your Computer's USB connectors can supply 5 Volts at 1 Amp.

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Practically silent, plug and play, no software, reasonably rapidly transfer rate none I have an older Dell Desktop (XP PRo, P4 2.8 GHz, 1G DDR RAM) with a smallish HD that was fairly full. I wanted/needed an low-cost way to store a lot of what was on the HD for straightforward access and this Drive fit the bill. It is just about silent, I employed both USB connections (because I have two avail in front) and it transferred roughly 20 gigs in a handful of minutes. I have about yet another 80G of movies to transfer later tonight - not worried a bit. The laptop or computer took all of about 15 seconds to recognize it and it acts as a drag/drop storage device...it's perfect for what it is...and at ์ with totally free shipping...are you significant? I'd buy one more in a second if I necessary 1.

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Feels nice in your hand when you're prepared to throw it against against a wall mainly because it's DOA Started clicking, turned on for 2 seconds and got recognized by the program but then started out clicking and didn't work. Don't throw it at a wall in rage like me and return it which will get you 90% of your dollars back, but you nonetheless have to ship it back... so you're finding like 70% back

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Operates fantastic. In no way have any complications with it. It comes with a mini usb to 2 usbs but you don't have to use each unless your connecting to usb 1.. For usual users just connect the usb with each wires going in, not the single wire. If that doesn't perform then use each. None

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diminutive profile Tech help at Hitachi is not extremely forthcoming. No e-mail response nor auto-reply. Telephoning them was not of considerably support except for the scripted response concerning an "optional" power provide which is not obtainable by way of them. The power supply necessary would be a 5 volt, 1-2 amp and H sort connector center pin +. As the Source (Radio Shack) offers a power supply for ส or a a lot more pricey option, their universal power supply, I purchased Montreal a powered mini four port USB Hub for approx. ร created by Vantec. The power supply supplies two.two amps and the drive works. I have just noticed that to use just 1 of the connections of the supplied Y cable, you have to use the middle connector (Data & Power) and not the one at the end of the cable (Power only). Hope this can aid those of you getting issues.