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From: Rod Speed on 14 Jun 2010 05:52 bopeep wrote: > after a long search of reviews on the major hard drive brands > in looking for a usb portable around 1gb, I have been unable > to find a drive of any brand that does not have an unacceptable > number of negative reviews usually more than 5% negative. > does there exist a good consumer cost usb portable drive > with a good review history? The samsungs dont do too badly. > I checked amazon, egghead and other major sources of many > reviews and only considered those that had more than 20 reviews. Likely thats the reason you didnt notice the samsungs.
From: Arno on 14 Jun 2010 08:46 bopeep <bopeep(a)storage.org> wrote: > after a long search of reviews on the major hard drive brands > in looking for a usb portable around 1gb, I have been unable > to find a drive of any brand that does not have an > unacceptable number of negative reviews usually more than 5% > negative. does there exist a good consumer cost usb portable > drive with a good review history? I checked amazon, egghead > and other major sources of many reviews and only considered > those that had more than 20 reviews. 1gb? The prefix "g" does not exist. And "bit"? Do you maybe mean 1GB? With the negative reviews, you have to take into account that something like 5-10% of the users are simply too stupid to use the device right and in addition are too stupid to recognize it is their fault. Therefore every device will at least get some negative reviews. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: Yousuf Khan on 14 Jun 2010 10:02
On 6/14/2010 1:32 PM, bopeep wrote: > after a long search of reviews on the major hard drive brands > in looking for a usb portable around 1gb, I have been unable > to find a drive of any brand that does not have an > unacceptable number of negative reviews usually more than 5% > negative. does there exist a good consumer cost usb portable > drive with a good review history? I checked amazon, egghead > and other major sources of many reviews and only considered > those that had more than 20 reviews. 1 Gigabyte? Are you talking about a USB flash drive of some sort? If it's a USB hard drive you're looking for, they don't make them that small anymore. I think the lowest you can get is 40GB these days. Yousuf Khan |