SmartDisk - you rock my world (Footnote - I recommend the FireWire Firelite over the USB one, simply because of better performance - however, all of their drives seem great)
As a filmmaker, I depend heavily upon Final Cut Pro and editing footage
I beat the heck outta my external drives ---- I store all of my film footage upon them, digitized, and then edit them to death ----- so my drives go through tremendous abuse
My interest in FireLite's were sparked because I liked the small size, ...
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/28/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
92% (37 of 40) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Easy to carry, painless to use! Being an Interactive Media Design Major who commutes is a huge pain! Especially when you have to carry around a large bag full of books, and other educational things. Ontop of that, having a large hard drive to lug in order to save your work, just equates to lots of backpains.
So I tried bringing CD-Rs to school to burn my work, which took ages to do and didn't work as well. I was also spending about $200 or so every few months on CDs. But now, after the purcahse of my SmartDisk, (w...
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 10/05/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (9 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Quick and Easy This drive is very portable and quickly adds on a good amount of storage. Although it only spins at 4200 RPMs, it's high speed connection is good and it's hard to notice is slow unless you are filling the drive in one shot. Since this is USB powered, it's makes it very travel friendly and I can breath a sigh of relief that I know where all my data is. It comes with a PS2 power option as well. Nice job SmartDisk.
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 10/18/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
73% (14 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Perfect USB 2.0 Drive. GREAT for backup! Bought mine for one thing and one thing only. Backup! I have about 70gig of video, music, pictures, etc. that I absolutely have to get backed up. Bought this drive today and copied about 60 gig so far in LESS than 30 mins on a USB 2.0 connection across a network! Small, light and requires no external power! A great buy!!
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/14/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
63% (7 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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repeat customer bought my first one a year ago, ordering another now -- nuff said! portable, reliable, simple, fast.............
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/09/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
60% (6 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very Disappointed Received Firelite portable as a gift and while it worked on my Mac G5 desktop it didn't work on either a Toshiba notebook or Apple Powerbook. This has to be more then a coincedence since a similar drive by CMS works perfectly on all three machines without the need for an adaptor. The support offered by the Smartdisk site did not resolve the problem.
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/16/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
50% (7 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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BUYER BEWARE - AC Adapter NOT included I got this drive for Christmas, and it works great when hooked up to my desktop PC. But the whole point of a drive like this is supposed to be portability. Unfortunately, when I hook it up to my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) via USB, I get an error message saying there is a "Power Surge" on my USB port. Apparently this thing requires more power than my laptop can mete out.
If you refer to the instructions, it says that if you have problems like this, you need to purchase an AC ad...
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/07/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
47% (11 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Firelite USBFL880 I puchased the 80 gig FireLite just short of a year ago. I am looking at other portable drives and was surprised at those who say the drive won't work on some computers.
I have used in on 2 Acer Laptops (XP) and 2 Dell desktops (XP) with no problems. I have also used it on 2 old Dell Latitudes with USB 1.1 connections. I have never had a trouble with power or recognition.
The only reason I am considering a Western Digital or Seagate is the price. The FireLite is qui...
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/02/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
77% (7 of 9) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Exceeded my expectations The 80GB Firelite portable has worked flawlessly for me throughout several months of travel all over the world. Since purchasing this drive I have carried it with me to Taiwan, China, Korea, Finland and several trips inside the US. I am far from over-protective of my gear and this drive has survived everything I or the airlines could throw at it without a single hiccup.
Installation on my XP machine was as simple as plugging it in and letting it automatically install itself. I ha...
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/06/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
87% (7 of 8) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Excellent external hard drive Nice looking, easily detected, worked without any problem for a month so far, and fast. Two thing I wished it has; 1) A short USB cable together with the long one for easy mobility. 2) Indicator light is red or green instead of light blue which is very difficult to see, I like to see it blinking while I am using the drive.
[SmartDisk USBFLB80 80GB USB 2.0 FireLite Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/12/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
85% (6 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |