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Philips SPE3091CC 1TB 3.5" External Hard Disk Drive USB2.0 | 
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| Brand: Philips
Category: CE
List Price: £119.99
Buy New: £94.99
You Save: £25.00 (21%)
New (1) Used (1) from £94.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 221
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.2 x 5.5
MPN: SPE3091CC
Model: SPE3091CC
EAN: 8712581366940
ASIN: B000WDXUES
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Meh.... August 21, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Cons:
> gets hot
> cannot remove from casing
> loud
Pros:
> cheap(ish)
I should've bought the western digital ones...
 Slow to start up August 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This drive is brushed aluminium with plastic at either end surrounded by rubber that helps it stay stationary when on a flat surface.
The drive comes pre-formatted with NTFS. Something that is welcome by a windows user that regularly transfers single files larger than 1gb.
In all, the reliaibility cannot be commented on this early on, but the drive does operate quite speedily and file transfers are maybe 5-10 seconds faster than my other external hard drive. Perhaps this is to do with what Philips calls the "prolific chip" for accelerated file transfers. The drive remains quiet throughout operation.
Onto the issues I've found. One, is that the drive takes maybe 15-20 seconds to initialise. My other external hard drive is usable after 5 seconds or so. This may be down to low spin speeds to extend the life of the drive and reduce power consumption, but other than that, the drive sleeps when the computer is put to sleep and wakes when the computer wakes.
Secondly, it gets wildly hot. This may because of the smaller form factor, or a thinner layer of aluminium. Think of when you played who could keep their hand on the radiator for longer...it gets that hot occasionally...
At the moment, for 95 it's certainly good value for money. If the reliability holds up, this is certainly a drive I recommend.
 Works for me August 8, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Works just fine with Vista Ultimate. Very fast but does get hot. Some notes: This runs off mains and is obviously set up for PC users. As the instructions warned, some computers won't boot up with the external drive turned on. So turn it on afterwards. Also, run a disk error checking utilily on your C drive and on the Philips before attempting a Vista Ultimate mirror backup, or you might have problems. Good practice anyway.
Compact - Fast - Quiet July 31, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic external hard drive to use with Windows. It came formatted as NTFS so I had no problems setting up.
It is quite small and quiet however it does get hot after extended use.
I have had it for a week now and no problems so far however external hard drives have a habit of malfunctioning after some time.
As long as there are no future problems I would recommend this product to all Windows users - I don't own a Mac so I can't test it on one. Excellent value for money and fast delivery.
1tb hard drive July 25, 2008
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
this is a nice product. I agree the hardest part is getting it out of the packaging. Although I do have some issues with it. I have a mac and it works and I phoned apple to ask how to format it to run to its optimum capacity on a mac and they said to format it to "Mac OS Extended (journaled)". IGNORE WHAT THE LEAFLET SAYS IT IS INCORRECT!!!!!!! Now this is all fine its just that I have had my drive for over 28 hours and i started formatting it almost as soon as i got it. now thats quite along time for it to format. But i guess its a big drive.
my other little gripe is if it as been formatting for along time try as best you can not to touch for it gets very hot. It is small and not bad looking.
Im not sure yet if im ever going to use the 1TB but with an auto back up prgram on my mac i guess it'll go alot faster than expected. I did compare ths drve to other smaller ones (with the same rpm (7500)) and if you take the price and divide it by the size you can get a rough idea of how much you are paying. It was something like 10 for a gb now that sound allot but its really not. the other 1TB hard drives have an ave. price of around 110.
so to conclude im not sure if i really really like it yet, but no matter what i like it
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