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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
* 4TB size limit on the 2.5" SATA 9.5mm HDD (available with 250GB installed.)
* Transfer <= 120GB per charge.
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I think I'll stick with my 2GB card and using internet cafes when I'm away from home. Much more robust and harder to lose, not to mention they provide updates for my email and RSS feeds.
You don't tell us what its file browse and search capabilities are. It's all very well have 4TB of data on the hard disk but if it takes 15000 key presses to get to my file it's not very usable. How does the search work? Can I say "copy all files matching ..." to the card, or do I have to search and copy one at a time? It's actually annoying enough on my home PC with only about 600MB of text + 3GB of pdf to search using Copernic desktop search, I can't imagine trying to do that on something battery powered with no keyboard.
There's also the speed question - I use 2TB disks at home, and backing one of those up using FireWire 400 takes at least a day. From the manufacturers website:
Backup speed: 50 Mb/s (max), 25 Mb/s (sustained) I'm going to assume they actually mean MB (megabytes) not Mb (megabits) because 25Mb/s is rubbish for a USB2 device and would write their device off in the market. 500GB at 25MB/s is five and a half hours. 4TB at 25MB/s is 44 hours. That's just to copy the files onto the device, assuming everything goes perfectly and the device really can sustain 25MB/s indefinitely.
Also, how does it get 4TB into the box? The biggest 2.5" disk I've heard of is a "to be released" 500GB one, so you'd need at least 8 of them in the device to get 4TB. Or is 4Tb some kind of theoretical "if we keep using PATA disks and someone one day makes..." limit?
Finally, 4TB at 120GB per charge is going to require a lot of mains power. So "portable" is a bit in the eye of the beholder.