Customer Reviews

SmartDisk Firelite 100GB FireWire External Hard Drive

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I work as an author and seminar/training class instructor. Due to this I travel a lot and am frequently asked to review hardware. I have tested Maxtor, Seagate and these SmartDisk FireLite models. In my opinion, the FireLite is the best external hard drive for those who travel because of its small size and light weight.

The drive does not have the shock resistance of the larger cases and this should be kept in mind. You'll want to be careful with it as evidenced by another review elsewhere related to these devices.

My biggest suggestion: Don't consider any USB drive a permanent backup solution for your data. They are just hard drives. If you have any data that is important to you, it should always be in two, or more, places at the same time. This is true with any storage medium.

Tom Carpenter, Senior Consultant - SYSEDCO

I already own three external hard-drives (Home, Office, Media) and this Firelite HD is by far the best. I love the fact that I can connect it to my PowerBook and it draws power from the firewire cable. It is small and I carry it with my laptop wherever I go.

I doen't make any noise and doesn't heat up. I can't think of any negative comments about the product.

This is the utmost for gamers and/or music lovers with lots of CD's. With world turning electronic now-a-days DJ'ing is easy with a 100GB hard drive and 50,000 songs loaded. I have around 35,000 and they easily fit on here. For those individuals who go on long trips (ie. military) this is perfect. All your music is sitting into your pocket and easily accessible. You can even take thousand's of picture's of your family and friends with you and it so convenient. I recommend this drive to anyone technicians, mechanics, lawyers, programmers, etc. Why pay so much for a 2GB-4GB thumbdrive when you can have a 100GB for the same price? And the cost is just the same!

Product arrived as scheduled and has served my needs exceptionally well. I wanted a small drive that i could take with me on the road to backup and offload my laptop. The drive needed to be FireWire compatible.

The drive has filled my need without any problems encountered.

The drive was great but only lasted for 8 months when it crashed, and I lost all of my data. SmartDisk was not helpful at all and actually rude when trying to resolve this issue - I finally gave up and will never buy a SmartDisk product again! CAUTION ADVISED!!!

JoAnn

I bought this to be a portable backup for my work computer. It has served the purpose well. I like its firewire capability, as it can now serve as bootable drive in an emergency. It has enough storage space (for me, at least) to partition into two drives and to use one as backup and one as a general shuttle drive. The only complaint I have is that it gets extremely hot - so hot, in fact, that at one point during a long backup (~60 GB), I thought it was going to burn the table. It can definitely get too hot to hold when in use. However, that's the tradeoff for such a small drive... it weights significantly less than a pound and can easily slip into a side pocket in a backpack or even fanny pack. All in all, I highly recommend this drive.

excelent external hard drive. Easy to use and helps to have a the files ot the hard disk of the computer and keep a good running without adding more memory.