Tom’s Graphic Design Journal

So I've been looking at the Western Digital Passport external self powered hard drives for a while. Very nice looking. Great price. So I thought! Today I found at Best Buy a Simpletech self powered hard drive. 320GB for about $150. Holy crap! It also looks real sexy too in red.

So I was skeptical. I figured it's a cheap drive or something's wrong. I figured it was a coin toss and just got it anyway. Glad I did! It's actually a western digital drive inside! I thought who the heck is Simpletech? Never heard of them before...but looking in the device manager I saw a familiar looking name "WD..." I know Western Digital drives are named like that and so I looked up the numbers...Sure enough it's a WD Scorpio 320GB SATA Drive...wow!

This is much better than paying the same price for 120GB or maybe 200 some...plus I think the case looks nicer. We'll see if I run into any issues, but so far it's great. I find it really interesting how all these hard drives you see have wacky prices. You aren't really paying for the size anymore...I think it's just a matter of how many were made and what was left over. Who bought how many, etc.

   

So I've been looking at the Western Digital Passport external self powered hard drives for a while. Very nice looking. Great price. So I thought! Today I found at Best Buy a Simpletech self powered hard drive. 320GB for about $150. Holy crap! It also looks real sexy too in red.

So I was skeptical. I figured it's a cheap drive or something's wrong. I figured it was a coin toss and just got it anyway. Glad I did! It's actually a western digital drive inside! I thought who the heck is Simpletech? Never heard of them before...but looking in the device manager I saw a familiar looking name "WD..." I know Western Digital drives are named like that and so I looked up the numbers...Sure enough it's a WD Scorpio 320GB SATA Drive...wow!

This is much better than paying the same price for 120GB or maybe 200 some...plus I think the case looks nicer. We'll see if I run into any issues, but so far it's great. I find it really interesting how all these hard drives you see have wacky prices. You aren't really paying for the size anymore...I think it's just a matter of how many were made and what was left over. Who bought how many, etc.