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Product Review: ToughTech Secure Mini-Q
31.03.10
I can honestly say that I have a love/hate relationship with the CRU-Dataport/Wiebetech corporation. I absolutely love their products, but I hate reviewing them! Generally when doing a review of a piece of technology you want to give a balanced assessment, the good aspects versus the bad aspects. Unit is badly designed, hard to operate, non intuitive, etc.
I never get to say that about these folks, I have tried long and hard to find fault with them. I was firmly convinced I had them on one particular occasion, I plugged one of their external hard drives into one of my Linux based boxes and it was not recognized! Ah-Ha Eureka I thought! Now I have you! I have some dirt I can write about, I have found something that does not work.
Most companies are sadly lacking when it comes to customer service so I decided that this would be a golden opportunity to score another direct hit! I called and explained my dilemma, not only was the person on the end of the phone helpful, they were also truthful. They admitted that Linux was not their forte. But someone would call me right back. They did! I hate to say it, but the problem was not in the device, rather it was my ineptitude! The tech talked me through the process of connecting it to my system.
In The Market To Buy An External Hard Disk ?. Some Helpful Info.
Back Ground Of The External Hard Disk
The very first external hard disk was massive. Quite likely 100 times bigger than todays and only capable of holding just a few megabytes of data !. In those days information was held externally to the computer so it truly earned the name external hard disk. Due to insufficient capacity these types of external hard disks were swappable so the large mainframe computer could have access to much more data.
The External hard Disk These days
With the end of the 20th century, internal drives took over as the system of choice for computers running Windows, while external hard drives continued to be popular for much longer on the Apple Macintosh and also other professional workstations which provided external SCSI ports. Apple made such interfaces available by default from 1986 and 1998. The addition of USB and Firewire interfaces to standard personal computers led such type of drives to become commonplace in the Desktop market also. These new interfaces supplanted the more complex and pricey SCSI interfaces, resulting in standardization and cost savings for the external hard drive.
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