Buffalo HD-HC500U2

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This 500 GB external hard drive, the Buffalo HD-HC500U2, runs at 7200 RPM RPM.

BUFFALO 500GB DRIVESTATION 7200RPM SATA EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE USB 2.0 (#HD-HC500U2) (Retail)

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Buffalo HD-HC500U2

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WA store info	A⁺ rate seller	$129.95 + shipping FREE tax	buy	Buffalo HD-HC500U2 500GB USB Sata 2.0 Hard Drive Buffalo's Drive Station external hard drives allow users to keep backups of files, digital images, documents that will not take up the room on your PC's main drive. The DriveStation connected to your PC automatically turns on Seller online since 1994.	4 hrs

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Buffalo a.k.a. Buffalo HD-HC500U2 and other part numbers

#1697 in Disk Drives

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Capacity
Hard Disk Storage	500 GB
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Drive Type	External

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RPM	7200 RPM
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04 Aug 2007

Inexpensive but excellent drive The drive comes preformated with FAT32. Thus for most people, you should reformat it to NTFS before putting any data on the drive for better performance. Reformatting takes about 2 hours.

Performance is about the same as other external USB 2.0 drives which means much slower than your internal hard drives. For example, my 3 year old internal ATA Seagate can do sequential read and write at 52.6 and 52.7 MB/s, while the Buffalo can do only 17.5 and 17.6 MB/s. Thus, external USB drives, i... –fredf888from Amazon.com

01 Jul 2007

Good, but software a little flakey The included power management software is working erratically for me. After installing it, I got several blue screen crashes (Windows XP Service Pack 2). It seems to have settled down now.

The second problem is that whenever the computer comes out of standby, the drive turns on, even though the power manager has been told to turn it off (and thinks it's off). If you use the power manager to "turn on" the drive (even though it's already on), you can then use it to turn the drive off again... –Retired Earlyfrom Amazon.com

19 Jun 2007

Buffalo 500GB DriveStation USB 2.0 External Hard Drive The Buffalo 500GB DriveStation is an excellent purchase for the price. It is a great asset to any computer set-up, whether it be Mac (OS 9.0 and up) or PC (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98SE).

This is the 3rd purchase I've made of Buffalo external hard drives and I am an extremely satisfied customer! Their external drives have always worked seamlessly with my interface whether it be my Sony Vaio PC (formatted NFTS or FAT32), my iMac (formatted FAT32 only), my Pioneer Elite... –The Watcherfrom Amazon.com

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