Re: Why is this HDD so small?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:27:08 -0600, Rene
Lamontagne <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2021-03-13 12:14 p.m., micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:07:40 -0700, Ken Blake
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/12/2021 8:27 PM, micky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why is this so small?
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, why aren't they all so small?
>>>>                  Less than 4" x 1 1/4" x 1/3".
>>>>
>>>> Is it a real HDD, a spinner, with a rotating platter?   It calls it a
>>>> harddrive more than once, and never uses SSD, etc. but it's so small.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/External-Hard-Drive-Portable-Laptop/dp/B08VNQZ4KY/ref=sr_1_11?crid=3C0WFJ8T7ELDA&dchild=1&keywords=external%2Bhard%2Bdrive&qid=1615603990&s=pc&sprefix=ext%2Celectronics%2C179&sr=1-11&th=1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regardless of what Amazon call it, it can't be a real hard drive. It
>>> must be an SSD. It seems to be an oversize thumb drive. There are lots
>>> of other 1TB thumb drives for sale, and some of them are less expensive.
>>>
>>>
>>>> What about that it has no brand name?  Would you buy it for a backup
>>>> drive?
>>>
>>>
>>> I've never used one, don't know anybody who has, never read a review of
>>> it, and know nothing about it. What you do is up to you of course, but
>>> using such an unknown product is risky.
>>>
>>>
>>>> For file backup, is a real 2.5" external drive better for backup?
>>>> external 2.5" HDD, SSD, 3.5" HDD in a dock
>>>
>>>
>>> I wouldn't use it for backup, but the reason has nothing to do with its
>>> not being a real HD; it's because it's unknown.
>> 
>> I didn't mind that JCWhitney sold things that didn't work, like the gas
>> pressure regulator that would impove my gas mileage by 50%.  I used my
>> own judgment and never bought that.
>> 
>> But JCWhitney didn't display** customer ratings, including by "verified
>> customers".   I don't see how so many verified customers could have
>> rated the wrong thing as for this item. I hope Amazon doesn't let this
>> become other than very rare.
>> 
>> **I haven't been to their webpage for a couple years.
>> 
>
>I have seen this BS many times, that's why i don't read their stupid 
>reviews.
>They are mostly fabricated crap.
>
>Rene

So who is doing this?  The vendor?   Amazon?   Trolls? 

Because I can't imagine it's Amazon or trolls so if it's the vendor,
finding a bunch of fraudulent reviews would be a good way to know to
reject something.

I've had pretty good results from reading reviews. They remind me of
things I hadn't thought of, or tell me how to use something.  Just
yesterday for an external drive, for one model several reviewers
complained the included cable was only 3 inches long, and for another
model they said it was included when the doggone vendor-suppolied info
didn't say. 

Unrelated, I have a bluetooth earpiece that connects to the cell phone.
I get few phone calls and don't find it helpful, didnt' use it for
years, but I resolved to take long walks for excercise and thought it
would help me keep in touch.  BUT, I couldn't remember how it works,
couldn't find the instructions in my home or online, and finally found
it on Amazon and one of the pictures said what the different buttons
did.    
  FWIW, I still didn't like it and I got a better pair of wired earbuds,
but even they tend to fall out of my ears.   I think my ears are
mal-formed, but I never noticed it until they invented earbuds.