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Freecom Databar 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

from: Freecom

December 18, 2007
Have had this for about 5 months now - no problems whatsoever. Decent build, decent read/write speeds. For the price it's great value and I would happily buy more of them if I needed to.

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Kensington PocketHUB Mini USB 2.0 - Hub - 4 ports - USB

from: Kensington


I will briefly express my experience with this product. This USB is good for the price, works without problem (installation not required: start working as you stick it). The downside of this product is that it has not have any extension cord/cable (the cable is as long as you see it on this picture about 3cm, so that the four ports are hanging in the air of my desktop: for the laptop users, this may be ok, if you don't require longer cable). In addition, one of the ports(it has four) started not working after two month of usage (now been using for 6months). I will give it 3stars for above reasons. Overall though, it is a decent product, at reasonable price.

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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

from: Western Digital

October 07, 2007
Bought 6 of these - 4 failed within less than a year. There are far better drives available. Would like to give WD drives a zero rating but amazon doesn't allow it. I'll never buy a Western Digital drive again.

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Hama Universal Case for External Hard Drives, size S, Black

from: Hama

August 21, 2007
Bought 6 of these - 4 failed within less than a year. There are far better drives available. Would like to give WD drives a zero rating but amazon doesn't allow it. I'll never buy a Western Digital drive again.

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Kingston Technology 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

from: KIngston

January 31, 2008
A Flash Drive (sometimes called a Pen Drive) is an external memory storage device that connects to computers via the USB port. They offer a durable, compact, and speedy method of transferring data, as well as acting as a back-up solution.

Flash drives are ever increasing in capacity and decreasing in cost, but there is one problem to the buyer. The variety available to you is huge. Simply typing the words "Flash Drive" into the search engine of Amazon.co.uk resulted in a staggering 2,709 results, so how do you pick one that meets your needs?

Almost everyone I know has a flash drive of some description. Some are bigger, some are smaller, some are different colours, some have an extendable (USB) bit, some come with built in encryption software, ... Read More:

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Freecom Databar 4GB USB2.0

from: Freecom

August 23, 2007
When looking for products like this you do usually find some negative reviews. USB sticks are a funny thing to review as they are the kind of product that either work or don't. For me, this has worked a treat, with no problems at all since purchasing. You simply pull the cap off, plug it in to a USB port and it installs itself - what could be easier. 4gb should be ample space for carrying round large documents and photos and, for the price, this is a bargain.

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SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB U3 Readyboost Flash Drive

from: SanDisk

August 21, 2007
Having a 4GB Cruzer c/w U3 software, I decided to also buy its 'bigger brother'.

Unfortunately on my Vista machine, the U3 software won't load; this means there is no way to safely "Eject" the drive. Simply removing the flash drive risks long-term damage to the drive & my data.

OK it stores reams of data, but if that data is at long-term risk, I cannot recommend this drive.

Pity, because the 4GB version + U3 software is superb in every way.

U3 works OK on my XP PC.

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Western Digital My Passport Essential 250GB USB Portable External Hard Drive

from: Western Digital

February 13, 2008
I've already got an older 60GB My Passport which is excellent; has always worked fine even after dropping it five feet onto a wooden floor.

The new one (320GB My Passport Essential) looks much the same and I am confident that it will be just as good...once I get it powered up. I plugged it into my four-year-old home Dell laptop and it failed to start up; the older 60GB version works fine attached to that computer. When I plugged the 320GB My Passport into my newer work laptop it worked absolutely fine.

The solution is to phone Western Digital European Tech Support (00800 275 49338) who know all about this problem; it is because older computers may not deliver enough power via the USB port to power the My Passport. However, they will post you ... Read More:

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Acronis True Image 11 (PC)

from: Acronis Inc.

October 12, 2007
Well like so many, I bought it when it was on offer...

Installed and made my fist whole system back up. Lets face it, you never know if its done it right until you have to use it...fortunately it had as I reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled as hoped...

thats the good

the bad is since then I have not been able to create another wholesystem backup - well not one that I feel confident of...

and after 3 or 4 emails to their support - each time it has taken AT LEAST 1 week to reply and then displays a complete lack of understanding of the question

if you need to be sure that you have a good backup, shop elsewhere

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Verbatim 43549 DVD-R 16x 4.7GB 100pk Sp

from: Verbatim

January 21, 2007
These disks work out at 17p each, great value and I find verbatim discs to be very reliable. The shrink wrap is the newer orange one not the one in the picture. My cake box arrived cracked, first time I'd had a problem with an order from amazon. They replied to my e-mails I sent on Friday evening and I had a replacement item on Monday morning, returned the broken box in the box it came in with a returns label I printed on the computer, had to take it to the post office but didn't have to pay postage, really excellent replacement service.