Re: Why is this HDD so small?
Frank Slootweg <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
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| Organization | NOYB |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ken Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/13/2021 1:26 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > 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? > > > As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is completely reputable. I buy many > things from them--probably somewhere around 100 a year--and I've never > had a problem, except once when a product I expected to receive never > arrived. Amazon not only refunded what I had paid, but also gave me a > credit ($10, If I remember correctly). You don't buy things *from* them (at least not in cases like this), but *through* them. The only thing you get is *financial* 'security', *if* you spot in time that the advertized item is indeed a lemon. But the point - which you've snipped - is, (very) weird merchant, which peddles a mislabeled/misadvertized, no-name device which you're supposed to trust your data to. FWIW, we (NL) also have Amazon-like companies (they pre-date Amazon in Europe) and Amazon is ramping up here. I only use (the merchants which sell through) such companies if there's no reasonable alternative and the lemon-risk is not important. (And I think a lot would have to change before I would consider buying through or from Amazon.)