Re: Why is this HDD so small?

Frank Slootweg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Organization NOYB
Message-ID <[email protected]>
micky <[email protected]> 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
> 
> What about that it has no brand name?  Would you buy it for a backup
> drive? 
> 
> 
> For file backup, is a real 2.5" external drive better for backup?
> external 2.5" HDD, SSD, 3.5" HDD in a dock

  No offense, but why even consider stuff from weird merchants which
peddle their stuff via Amazon!?

  Don't you have *reputable* webshops in the US?

  Have you even seen the 'name' of the merchant?

'qingyuanshiyongxinxiecaibaozhuangyouxiangongsi'? Give me a break!
(At least that's what it says when using your URL from The Netherlands.)

  It doesn't matter how 'cheap' it is, I would never trust my data to
fishy no-name stuff like that, especially not from a fishy merchant.
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