Best Portable External Hard Drive For Mac?

Q. I want the memory to be 500gb or more

Answer
**If you have money : Iomega eGo Portable Mac Edition (500GB, USB 2.0, FireWire)

Review : http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/iomega-ego-portable-mac/4505-3190_7-33653988.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

If you don't : WD Elements(500 GB, USB 2.0, Black)

Review : http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/western-digital-elements-portable/4505-3190_7-33723635.html?tag=mncol;lst;4

I need help buying a external Hard Drive with a budget of roughly 100 dollars.?

Sy

I have a budget for roughly 100 dollars. I want buy a external hard drive just for storing pictures, documents, etc. But I don't want to lose any of data. I have heard the higher end hard drives ( 500 GB plus) have a high rate of failing. Can you recommend one that has a reputation of lasting for long time. Thank you.

Answer
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptop-hard-drives/iomega-ego-portable-hard/4505-9997_7-33647214.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

that has a large capacity, and a 3 year warranty so i would recommend it

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Difference between an external expension and portable hard drive?

Q. I need a 1TB external hard drive but I keep seeing expansion and portable external hard drives. What's the difference? Or are they the same thing. I just need it for my music. Would this be good for what I need? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178245

Answer
I think two Solid State hard drives that are 512gb each, that would give you pretty much what you are looking for, they aren't cheap though, in Canada that would run about $450.00 each, you can get a 1T solid state drive for about $900.00, which to me is quite prohibitive, and you need a Thunderbolt port for that one.. I would think you will pay much less for a 1T hard drive disc, it certainly wont cost even close to what solid state are, if you don't need a really fast speed you can get a range of normal plug in hard drives for not too much money...You didn't say if you had a desktop or laptop...
Glen.....

Hard Drive Help !?!?!?!?

steak sauc

In my current desk top I have an extra SATA drive that I want to take out and use as an external drive for my new laptop. Before I do this I would like to completely wipe it clean of everything. How do I wipe it clean and format it to be used as purely a storage device.

I also need help cleaning up the drive my desktop runs off of as I would like to sell it. I need help getting rid of all my personal files and just leaving enough behind to run the machine, like the OS (which is XP) and internet explorer.
I do already have an external case for the drive

Answer
To format it, go to Computer and right click on the drive and click "format". Make sure it says the allocation size is set to default, and the file system is NTFS. This will remove ALL files off the drive.

To make it portable you need a hard drive enclose. This is a housing for you drive with a connecter that connects to the SATA interface and allows you to use USB, Firewire, eSATA, or Thunderbolt. They're not too expensive and easy to find.

To remove all your personal files, you could get the recovery CD/DVD from your desktop manufacturer and use it to reinstall the OS removing all personal files. You would have to "reuse" the Windows XP product key on the desktop case. This key will only work with that system. Call the manufacteurer and tell your system model number and ask them what they can do. Sometimes they'll give you the disc for free, some, you might have to pay. Make sure and ask them if the disk will REINSTALL Windows.

Another way is just to manually remove all personal files and change the settings and programs.

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What is a portable hard drive?

Q. Okay, I may sound ignorant, but what exactly is a portable hard drive? Can they act like a normal hard drive? Do you run an OS on them? Can you install programs on them? How much are they? What's the difference between that and a flash drive?

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A portable hd usually refers to a USB connected harddrive that is use to store data. However, newer systems can boot from USB drives (or CDs depending on your OS) and you can use it to intstall your OS. (Not typical however.)

Your OS usually will treat them like a regular harddrive and you can install programs on them, however you wouldn't normally do this since installing programs will usually add entries to the drive where the operating system is to tell the program how to run.

A flash drive refers to "flash memory" these are chip based drives that have no moving parts. Good to carry files around with you. (refered to as key drives sometimes as you can carry one on your keyring) A portable hard drive is more of an external hard drive and has the same technology as one in your PC. (moving parts - a little more likely to damage.)

A flash drive is usally 256 megabytes to 2 gigabytes. USB hard drives can be 10 gigabytes or larger, up to a terabyte. (1000 gigabytes.)

In both cases, you usually want to have all your OS files and programs local to the machine and keep or backup your data on the portable type drives.

Are portable hard drives as fast as internal hard drives?

hard_mike9

im buying a laptop and it would be great if i could just install all my games on a portable hard drive so when i come home i can just plug it up to my baby and play away. if there not i guess ill wait till payday to shell out for a bigger internal hard drive.

Answer
It depends on model you have,some external hdds are faster than hdds in the laptop.

External HDD's - 5400 - 7200rpm
Laptop HDD's - 4200 - 5400 - 7200rpm
Tower Pc HDD'd - 7200 - 10 000 - 15 000rpm

But I don't think you'll be able to install any program,game etc in to your external HDD.
External drives are meant to store data.

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Portable hard drive issues?

Kyouya's G

Re post because the other one is getting no help

I'm not a computer genius so if anyone has anything to help please tell me how to get there and what to do in step by step or else I might get lost.

My portable hard drive won't work. It usually auto runs when I plug it in then I view it as a folder, or sometimes, I go to My computer and it's there as another local disk.

Neither of these things are happening and I don't know why. It shows up the on my taskbar just as being able to be safely removed and I checked it's properties in the device manager and it says it's running fine.

I even tried to uninstall the driver but that didn't work.

Any ideas? I'm positive there's no viruses on it and windows says it's working fine I just can't figure out why I can't access it.
Can I use Partition Magic to help?
***********I FIXED MY OWN PROBLEM***********

I'm going to put what I did for future help for others. READ STEPS BEFORE TAKING THEM, DOWNLOADS ARE NECESSARY FOR MY FIX.

1. Go to Start < Run < type "compmgmt.msc" NO ""
2. In the Computer Management window select Disk Management under Storage in the left panel.
3. Find your device. I didn't notice it at first because mine was labeled "Disk 1" Tip: Unplug your portable then plug it in because the window will update immediately, that's how to find the right one.
4. See if the disk is assigned a drive letter. If you're having my problem it won't have one. If you do you can try skipping some of the next steps, but I'm not sure it'll work for any other problem.
5. Right click the disk. Tip: Don't click the box where it says Disk #, click the wider box to the right with the info in it.

*continuing in another edit*
6. Create a partition and follow the steps. Now you're device will be recognized and show up in the My Computer folder again under whatever drive letter you assigned.

7. Now if you try to click the drive in My Computer it's going to ask you to format. Formating erases everything and I was not able to find a way to get the files without erasing BUT, I found a way to get them after erasing. So if you read through everything then format the drive.

8. Here's why I said to read through, to get through this step you need to download a program. Either legally or illegally, whatever you want to do. If you download and need a key, email me, just put it in the subject or I might delete. The program you need is. Recover My Files. I stand by this and it supposedly works for recovering files from other places even ones never saved. It recovered everything even stuff I had long since deleted on my portable hard drive.

*continuing*
9. After you download the program it won't ask you for a key until you need to save your files. Scan for what you're looking for, but don't do a quick scan. You'll have to select all the file types you want to find. This is good if you are only looking for one specific or a few specific things. I needed to restore mostly my movies/anime. This will take AWHILE depending on what you want and how many files were once where you're looking. Make sure you have stable power because I got all the way to the end of a 3 hour search and my comp turned off.
10. After the search you'll have to go through the list to find what you want, I suggest searching by name, file size or type.

After that just save the files (I put them on the desktop so they wouldn't mix up with my other files) and you're done! Worked like a charm. Hopefully it works for everyone else.

Answer
Well, one of two things have happened.

A. The Hard Drive is failing and the partition table information was on the portion of the disc that is damaged.

2. The controller has failed and is not allowing the drive to communicate with the computer.

What you need to do is go to your start menu and click "run" and type "diskmgmt.msc" into the dialog box. If you have vista, just type that into the field on the start menu.

This will bring up a window that lists the drives installed on your computer. Find the one that is associated with the drive you are having issues with and check to see if it recognizes a partition or not. If not, then the partition is bad and you would need to recreate it and reformat it.

The problem with that is that doing so will erase all the data on the drive. So if there is important stuff on it, you should go to a repair shop and see if they can recover the data.

If you don't mind losing the data that was on the drive, then simply right click on the drive in question and select "format" then just set it to "NTFS" and hit Ok.

How can I remove a virus from my portable hard drive?

Grace

I know there is a trojan on it and I know exactly what file it's in but everytime I plug it into my mac I get a pop-up saying "this file contains a trojan" and I can't get anywhere near it to even delete the file.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of it? I took it to a computer shop but they weren't helpful at all unless I paid them crap loads of money.

Ok, thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

Answer
format drive

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Good external hard drive for mac?

Light

Hi, I no nothing about hard drives and such but I just know I have no space on my computer.
I would be happy with something like 2 gb maybe 4.
Im on a budget so it needs to be cheap but reliable because ill be storing my life on this hard drive. So please something that wont be defective.
Idk what brand or what to buy I have a mac os10.5
So please give me good recommendations and tell me what ill need to do.
do i have to format or something? 0_0

Answer
Any hard drive works on any computer. There are not any special "Mac drives", except as an advertising gimmickââ the drive is just pre-formatted as Mac. (Most new drives come pre-formatted for Windows XP SP2 or laterâNTFS)

As for connectig the drive, it needs connections that match your type of computer. "I have a mac os10.5 " is not really much info. The "Mac OS" thing is software, not the actual computer hardware. The software is called "Mac OS" because it is for a Mac type computer.

To learn which computer you bought, go to the top menu bar, click the Apple logo and choose "About This Mac". Then write down the processor info. Next, click "More Info" and write down the computer model and age, such as "iMac Late 2007".

This info will tell what connections you have. All older Macs that can run OS 10.5 have USB 2.0. Some have Firewire 400. Others have Firewire 800. If you don't want to determine if the computer can use a fast drive connected by Firewire, just buy thisâ> http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-Drive-Storage-WDBUZG5000ABK-NESN/dp/B00CI3BISU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1391784256&sr=8-3&keywords=500gb+drive

As far as reliability, it's like if you buy a lightbulb. 98% of the time, it works fine. Occasionally, it doesn't. You should make two backups of your life, so buy a second drive. Your life is worth 150 bucks... maybe as much as 200.

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is there a computer hard drive guru out there?

EL Nene Ca

what do they mean by hadware enclosure support?
is this a good deal?
does it come with a fan?
any sugestions?
would it last log?
how can i prevet getting it burned out like the last one?

here are what they promiss?

750GB eSATA / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

The VOX V1 is a clear leader in the race for the peak of external desktop drives. It lets you store, backup, or easily transport various files, including huge multimedia files too large to fit on a USB key. Just plug it into your computer and it installs automatically with Windows 2000, XP, or OS-X computers (Windows 98 systems will need to install USB drivers). Fanless Heat Sink Chassis design lets V1 run cool and quietly. The unique chassis design may be placed vertically or horizontally. With auto installation, INITIO One Button back up all software support, the V1 is a plug and play secure and reliable USB backup and storage solution.

http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=39088679&source=EWB051208AEML

Answer
this is an external hard drive meaning that it is used as a storage device which is portable, kinda like a usb drive except this one is the size of a hard drive. you can choose from laptop hard drive which are smaller and more expensive to PC hard drive which are bigger and require power from a power cord. All you need to get is the hard drive and the enclosure for it, either a laptop hard drive enclosure which is 2.5" i think or a PC hard drive enclousre which is 3.5''. But the one you apparantly chose already has the enclosure box coming with the hard driveso you're ready to go. This one is also a 3.5" hard drive since it is a PC hard drive.

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Can i turn my old laptops hard drive into a portable hard drive for my new pc?

Nathan

if yes then how???? cheers

Answer
Buy an enclosure for a 2.5" form factor drive such as this one from Office Depot. You should be able to find one just about anywhere that you can buy a computer - $10-15

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/157515/CP-Technologies-One-Button-Backup-Case/

You will not need to format the drive. It will not be in your boot sequence, and you will be able to access any data that is currently on it.

Looking For The Best Flash Drive?

Tinker

I need to transfer files, music, photos from my pc media center? 32GB or 64GB I'm interested in something that automatically transfers the data, password protection, windows xp ready boost, data written to drive auto encrypted, usb 3.0 interface for speed. I would also like to know what the difference is between drag & drop vs data automatically transferred? Also how long can data stay on a flash drive vs portable external hard drive? I'm getting conflicting info from: office depot, office max need to know asap.

Answer
SDHC 32GB Toshiba Flash drive is very good and I use it.
Data can stay on a flash drive and portable hard drives for as long as you want.

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What is the difference between potable drive and external hard drive?

maggie

Answer
A portable flash drive is a small USB stick connected to the PC that hold probably up to 64 GB of data.

An external hard disk drive is a hard drive like the one inside your PC except it is a smaller form factor like a notebook one optimized for portable usage. All power and data go to one or two cables depending on maker. These hard disk drives can probably hold up to 2 TB.

Hop this helps!

What is the difference between a Portable/External Hard Drive?

ForTheWin

And if I want to back-up the contents on my internal hard drive, which would I need?
Is there certain cables i would need (USB etc) to connect either hard drive to my laptop?

Answer
Portable external hard drives are simply hard drives connected to the main computer by a USB plug. That way you can unplug them and take them with you. If you find a external drive you want, look on the box for package contents. If there is no USB cable listed, then you will need to buy one. Just make sure that the external drive is big enough (disk storage space) to hold all your back up information.

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Portable Hard Drive won't open?

Kyouya's G

I'm not a computer genius so if anyone has anything to help please tell me how to get there and what to do in step by step or else I might get lost.

My portable hard drive won't work. It usually auto runs when I plug it in then I view it as a folder, or sometimes, I go to My computer and it's there as another local disk.

Neither of these things are happening and I don't know why. It shows up the on my taskbar just as being able to be safely removed and I checked it's properties in the device manager and it says it's running fine.

I even tried to uninstall the driver but that didn't work.

Any ideas?
How do you get to drive management?

It is already installed and working properly says Windows.

There are no viruses....
Also, about the virus....HOW can I explore when I just said I can't access it?

I really hate when people answer without reading the whole question.
***********I FIXED MY OWN PROBLEM***********

I'm going to put what I did for future help for others. READ STEPS BEFORE TAKING THEM, DOWNLOADS ARE NECESSARY FOR MY FIX.

1. Go to Start < Run < type "compmgmt.msc" NO ""
2. In the Computer Management window select Disk Management under Storage in the left panel.
3. Find your device. I didn't notice it at first because mine was labeled "Disk 1" Tip: Unplug your portable then plug it in because the window will update immediately, that's how to find the right one.
4. See if the disk is assigned a drive letter. If you're having my problem it won't have one. If you do you can try skipping some of the next steps, but I'm not sure it'll work for any other problem.
5. Right click the disk. Tip: Don't click the box where it says Disk #, click the wider box to the right with the info in it.

*continuing in another edit*
6. Create a partition and follow the steps. Now you're device will be recognized and show up in the My Computer folder again under whatever drive letter you assigned.

7. Now if you try to click the drive in My Computer it's going to ask you to format. Formating erases everything and I was not able to find a way to get the files without erasing BUT, I found a way to get them after erasing. So if you read through everything then format the drive.

8. Here's why I said to read through, to get through this step you need to download a program. Either legally or illegally, whatever you want to do. If you download and need a key, email me, just put it in the subject or I might delete. The program you need is. Recover My Files. I stand by this and it supposedly works for recovering files from other places even ones never saved. It recovered everything even stuff I had long since deleted on my portable hard drive.

*continuing*
9. After you download the program it won't ask you for a key until you need to save your files. Scan for what you're looking for, but don't do a quick scan. You'll have to select all the file types you want to find. This is good if you are only looking for one specific or a few specific things. I needed to restore mostly my movies/anime. This will take AWHILE depending on what you want and how many files were once where you're looking. Make sure you have stable power because I got all the way to the end of a 3 hour search and my comp turned off.
10. After the search you'll have to go through the list to find what you want, I suggest searching by name, file size or type.

After that just save the files (I put them on the desktop so they wouldn't mix up with my other files) and you're done! Worked like a charm. Hopefully it works for everyone else.

Answer
Do you see it in Drive Management? If so if has lost the partition information that describes how the data is laid out on the disk. If you can see the drive there don't do anything with it and take it to someone knowledgeable straight away. It may be possible to recover the data from the drive but if you do the wrong thing it will be lost forever.

My portable hard drive won't show up! Any help here?

Rhett

Well I had this 500GB Portable Hard Drive that I held a lot of my documents and stuff on, and I decided to protect it I would get a password on it. I look up how I could do such a thing and I found this one program I thought would do the trick. So I installed it to my portable hard drive and everything and then I start it up to realize that I needed administrator permission to use it.

The problem with that is the laptop I use for school a) uses 7, which brings up that whole issue and b) it's not my laptop. It belongs to the school and they let me use it for my school stuff. The problem sets in with the fact that the account I use for it has no administrator privileges, so it won't work like I need to. So I proceed to remove the program from my portable hard drive.

Once I did that, I exited it out, unplugged it, then plugged it back in to let the changes on it set in. That's when the issue came up.

Any help here?

Answer
Well I use Windows. If you go to "My Computer" on your Windows computer, you might see your portable hard drive device. By the way if you use a 500 GB Sandisk U3 Hard Drive device they have a built-in password option. Believe me, I already have a password on mine. Hopefully this works!

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Is it possible to save a xbox 360 game on a portable hard drive?

emperor ev

Any one know if there are any kind of mods to do such a thing?

personally I hate the idea of having to buy another xbox 360 harddrive, I just wish the 360 was like the ps3 where you can change the harddrive on that.

Answer
yeah i think
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-6828716762099822%3Akwm6ort73pj&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=XBOX+hard+drive&sa=Search

can i use a external hard drive on xbox 360?

Layne Pofa

can i use a usb hard drive on my 360 slim like this one?
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Buffalo-Technology-500GB-MiniStation-Stealth-USB-Portable-Hard-Drive/15572014

Answer
on all Xboxs usb flashdrives that have atleast 1gb of memory can be used as a hard drive along with external harddrives for computers, sometimes if the drive has a large amount of memory the xbox will only access a portin of it, for instance i use a 320gb external hard drive but the xbox will only use 16gb of it

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1TB 5400RPM vs 750gb 7200rpm?

Larry

I was woundering i wanted the space. but i also need speed.

Answer
You are probably talking a custom choice like from Apple or HP that is in the process of ripping you off. I prefer the off-the-shelf better and cheaper systems.
If you look at the retail pricing:
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#sort=a8&t=5400,7200&s=2000000,1000000,750000
Caviar Blue 3.5"7200RPM1TB64MB cache $65.98
Caviar Green 3.5" 5400RPM 1TB64MB cache $67.00
Caviar Blue 3.5"7200RPM750GB 64MB cache $69.98
The 1TB 7200rpm is the highest produced volume and can be bought the cheapest.
Different in laptops.
You can buy and install a 2nd hdd to a desktop later to get more space.
Start with 7200 rpm.
Or, you can buy or make with a $10 enclosure a portable USB 1TB HDD using a 2.5" internal drive.

Best Hard Drive?

krystal b

I own an HP Pavilion laptop and I need more storage space. Can anyone recommend a good portable/external hard drive that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and has a huge storage capability? It will be used for storing pictures, music, and word documents. Thank you for your time and help.

Answer
Western digital all the way up to 1TB external and pretty cheap under 300$ CND

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how to access my mac external hard drive from my pc?

smegheadrd

i have a an external usb hard drive hooked up to my mac mini and i want to be able to access it when i'm using my windows pc, anyone have any ideas?
the drive is formatted with fat 32 and windows sharing is enabled on the mac, I can see the mac hard drive from my pc but not the external drive

Answer
Have you 'shared' out the external drive?
JJ

Transferring files from PC to Mac via external hard drive?

lillyss

So I just bought the LaCie rugged all-terrain hard disk for my new macbook. I was wondering, could I transfer my files from my PC to my external hard drive and then from the hard drive to my macbook? Will there be any formatting or compatibility problems? Thanks for any help!!!

Answer
You should have no problems. If the LaCie disk was pre-formatted when you bought it, and your PC can read and write to it without a problem, then your Mac should see it without difficulty.

I currently have two external drives connected to my Mac, and I share them via the Mac's Sharing preference pane. My PC sees all the files on these drives, including the invisible Mac files (.DS_Store, .Trashes, etc.).

There is a freeware Mac program called Sharepoints that can make any folder or disk on a Mac appear to PCs on a network as a shared drive. You could use this to move files back and forth without even having to disconnect your external hard disk! OSX version 10.5 and above have this capability built-in, but to me, Sharepoints works a lot easier!

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can i use a external hard drive on xbox 360?

Layne Pofa

can i use a usb hard drive on my 360 slim like this one?
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Buffalo-Technology-500GB-MiniStation-Stealth-USB-Portable-Hard-Drive/15572014

Answer
on all Xboxs usb flashdrives that have atleast 1gb of memory can be used as a hard drive along with external harddrives for computers, sometimes if the drive has a large amount of memory the xbox will only access a portin of it, for instance i use a 320gb external hard drive but the xbox will only use 16gb of it

Playing Media from a Portable Hard drive on an Xbox 360?

fender_roc

Im looking at getting a portable hard drive so i can back up all my media files and was looking at may be getting an HDD Media Player so i could view it on my TV but was wondering if could plug the drive into my xbox and use that to view the files. If not what HDD media player is the best out there. Seagate just came out with a new one and was looking at the one because they have Mac compatible hard drives and I have a Macbook Pro.

Answer
most hardrive are not supported for the xbox, i would go for the media player or stream the media files from my computer to the xbox

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Should i buy ipad2 or kindle fire?

Nidal

i dont know which one 2 buy could u tell me which 1 and y

plus what r some good psp games

Answer
Hey Nidal, if you want the best get iPad as it is a much better device that has a larger screen, two cameras, and over 500,000 apps/games in iTunes store. However, it is also much more expensive, heavier and less portable to take with you on the go. Kindle Fire is not a replacement as it is one underpowered device. Nook Tablet from Barnes & Noble clearly is the superior device. How about choppy video vs. smooth video or choppy apps vs. smooth apps - all reviewers noted much better performance of Nook Tablet over Kindle Fire in "choppiness" department - that's where 1 GB or RAM, better software and better screen come to play. Also, Nook Tablet has microSD slot (not on Kindle), a mic for Skype (not on Kindle), physical volume controls on the side (not on Kindle), and non-glare laminated screen (not on Fire).
Some pro reviews below:
New York Times:
Most problematic, though, the Fire does not have anything like the polish or speed of an iPad. You feel that $200 price tag with every swipe of your finger. Animations are sluggish and jerky â even the page turns that youâd think would be the pride of the Kindle team. Taps sometimes donât register. There are no progress or âwaitâ indicators, so you frequently donât know if the machine has even registered your touch commands. The momentum of the animations hasnât been calculated right, so the whole thing feels ornery. The built-in Web browser...itâs not clear what all of that gains you: nytimes.com takes 10 seconds to load, eBay.com takes 17 seconds, Amazon.com takes 8 seconds. The iPad took about half as long each time. ...if youâre used to an iPad or ârealâ Android tablet, its software gremlins will drive you nuts.
CNET:
We streamed Netflix side by side with the Kindle Fire, and head-to-head comparisons were very favorable to the Nook--it simply looked better. Both tablets have the same app, but the Nook Tablet's picture looked more vivid and detailed. The Nook Tablet also has physical volume controls on the side, which come in handy--the Kindle Fire strangely lacks them. The screen, which is a higher-quality IPS display than the Kindle Fire, really shows off Netflix and Hulu Plus to amazing effect...
It's the best screen on a budget tablet that I've ever seen. More storage--both onboard (16GB) and via microSD expansion--and the ability to read EPUB files could be big news for those who want flexibility. There's plenty of expansion room, and you'll have a hard time running out of space for your apps or your magazine downloads.

Kindle Fire Extra Memory?

Marshall

The Kindle Fire is a nice tablet and has every function I could ever need EXCEPT one; there is no slot for extra memory. Although the Kindle Fire has an Amazon Cloud service, it will only work for Amazon content, and you can't connect unless you have Wifi.
However, upon reading, I noted that the Fire has a microUSB port that allows it to connect to a computer. Through this connection, you can load user-generated files such as apps, movies, music and more. When I thought about it, I noticed that this essentially turns your computer into extra memory space.

My question is this; is there any sort of hard drive or other portable memory device that connects to microUSB? And if there is, could it be used as extra memory for the Fire?

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Hi, Marshall, you cannot attach any extra devices to USB port on Kindle Fire. Looking at the tablets people always confuse memory (RAM) of the device that helps it operate quicker and smoother by loading apps and web pages into memory and content space that is used for storing apps, videos, files, etc. Neither of those "memories" can be extra added to Kindle Fire as RAM is not expandable on tablets while content space needs microSD slot to be expanded and it's not present on Kindle Fire.
I'd recommend you to take a look at the new Nook Tablet that had been getting rave pro reviews on the web and it is the best device in it's class - much better than Kindle Fire. It's got Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Angry Brids, etc., the best battery life, the best screen, double the RAM and space for apps/photoes/movies, microSD slot and a microphone for Skype, and much zippier performance during video playback and apps usage than choppy/laggy act of Kindle Fire according to many user reviews. Also, many Kindle Fire units have faulty Wi-Fi and people have a lot of issues connecting to internet according to many user reviews. Amazon's own web site has hundreds of reviews of Kindle Fire's new owners that gave it 1 or 2 star reviews because of choppy/laggy experience they got from this underpowered device.

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