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| Brand: | Archos |
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| Hard Drive Interface: | USB 1.1 |
Product Specifications
Technical Details
- Ultra-fast USB 2.0 interface
- Latest generation 1.8 inch hard drive
- Weighs only 75 grams
Product details
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
ARCHOS, with a tag line 'Think smaller' introduces the ARCDisk, the world's smallest 20GB external portable hard drive. With its ultra-fast USB 2.0 interface and extremely small size (76 mm x 77 mm x 8.8 mm), the ARCDisk is the ultimate portable hard drive.Think smaller than the footprint of a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Weighing only 75 grams (2.7 ounces), it is equipped with the latest generation 1.8-inch hard drive. Usable without an external power supply (powered directly from the USB 2.0 port), it is ideal for traveling or carrying to and from work. This highly portable archive center can hold all your data plus some. It is the ideal solution for laptop PCs.
Product Description
ARCHOS, with a tag line 'Think smaller' introduces the ARCDisk, the world's smallest 20GB external portable hard drive. With its ultra-fast USB 2.0 interface and extremely small size (76 mm x 77 mm x 8.8 mm), the ARCDisk is the ultimate portable hard driv
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The concept is very attractive to any one constantly on the road or anyone wishing to be able to work on a huge number of files and also quickly transfer them between two or more workstations. Given the price though, Archos ought to have emphasized how important the external power supply is to a reliable operation of this HD so potential customers know the limits of its portability.
It operates flakily without the power supply hooked up, often disrupting file transfers with a variety of I/O errors. At least, that's my experience under Win-XP where you have to rely on the operating system-supplied mass storage device drivers. These drivers provide little or no options for optimization so I feel Archos should provide dedicated optimized drivers for this particular OS.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I have only had this a couple of days, but so far I have loaded it onto:
a pentium 120 (very old) running Windows 98 (not Win98SE),
a 133 laptop (win98),
a pentium 3 1.2 pc (win98)
a new pentium 4 2.8 laptop running winXPhome
and it has not raised a single problem with any of them - no problems loading it and no problems transfering files. My first data transfer was 3GB in size and between 3 pcs and it seems to be flawless.
It is obviously much slower on the win98 because the usb ports are version 1, but it works at a good pace on the XP laptop as that has v2 usb.
I have had no problems so far with running the Archos from just USB power with the exception of the very elderly and tiny laptop (toshiba libretto) - but as I have to run it via a port adaptor because as the laptop is so old it does not have built in USB - so it does seem nit-picky to complain, because of course the adaptor is an additional drain to the power supplied to the Archos. Plug the Archos in the mains electricity and its sorted.
The Archos ran fine on the XP laptop with neither connected to the mains electricity.
Very happy so far.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Does everything it says on the tin. One star removed for flaky Win-XP performance (incessant I/O errors), probably attributable to having to rely on an OS driver. Works great under Win-98 for which a manufacturer's driver disk is supplied.
