Customer Reviews:
Does the job well.......2007-12-18
This is a slim and sturdy fanless aluminium case with plastic ends which are held on by small screws. It gets warm but not hot with my Samsung 500GB Spinpoint drive, I can hear the drive accessing but nothing otherwise.
It comes with all cables and screws required for any SATA/IDE 3.5" drive, including both SATA and Molex power supply connections and, of course, a USB2 A-B cable. The 'soft' power button lights up blue when on but its not too bright like some, but it would've been nice if it flashed when accessing. Not tried the supplied backup software.
Slightly annoying is that the manual is only on the CD, there are no printed docs at all. The manual says that SATA drives may take longer to be recognised than IDE when you plug in the USB for some reason, I didn't find it a problem.
You have to bend the cables slightly to slot it all together, and some feet would've been nice if you're not using it vertically with the cradle, but these are very minor things really.
All in all, I think its good value for a SATA and IDE caddy.
Compact.......2007-11-29
For the price you pay you can't really find a better enclosure then this.
It takes either IDE or SATA drives, it holds them securely, it takes up hardly any space and the power supply unit is nice and small. That said there are a couple of small niggling things that made me knock off a star.
The cables used to connect the hard drive are a bit too long. They could of been much better had they been even an inch shorter. I had to force bend them into the enclosure to make them fit - still it is the price you pay to have such a small unit. The other thing is that there is no quick holding lock on hard drive, you have to screw it onto the enclosure frame to make it secure, so there will be no quick hot swapping of drives using this. But then again, at this price, it isn't such a problem :P
Product Description
Akasa Integral P2 AK-ENP2USB-SL Storage Enclosure Silver
Customer Reviews:
Excellent!.......2007-11-06
Superb product. Easy to install a hard drive - just be careful not to trap the wires as you slide the drive in. Plug into a USB port and the drive appears as a secondary HD on your PC. No drivers to install if using XP or later. Very minor criticism is that the rubber feet could be better secured.
Product Description
750GB Freecom Hard Drive - 3.5" External Hard Drive - USB 2.0 - 29412
Customer Reviews:
I like this MP3 player but.......2007-09-08
Bad points
i)The battery life is only 8 hours for the 6gb version.
ii)Connect isn't really a very good or stable piece of software - go for Sonic Stage, it's much better.
iii) I think if you go jogging it may crash as it has moving parts e.g. hard disk.
Good points
i)it has Chinese and Japanese characters so you can listen to your asian music without thoses blocks replacing the writting.
ii)sound quality is really good.
iii)it's looks swell
iiii) It's much smaller than the 20gb version, so it fits nicely in your pocket.
sonicstage?????.......2007-07-29
congratulations to Sony for devising the worst piece of software to grace the planet. Sonicstage (even the most recent version) crashes randomly, decides the player is not connected, takes hours to put music on the player and sometimes duplicates the music so you have two copies and no space for new cds. Avoid. Buy something that works - until Sony decides that is no longer going to treat its customers this way. Buy a Cowon x5 better quality and none of the hassle - or if you are really desperate an ipod.
WOW.......2007-03-26
LOVE this little player. Had it for over a year now and have upgraded software to Sonic Stage V4 which works just fine. After all this time have just found the volume hack! Well worth doing as it makes such a big difference! I'd strongly recommend buying one rather than an ipod!
Sound quality is first class and the ATRAC compression is excellent desite all the complaints about Sony using their own format. (It will play a multitude of other files too!)Build and design beautiful. Reliability...fine so far!
5 out of 5!
i love mine!.......2007-03-24
I must say I love my sony walkman! It looks lovely: much sexier then the Ipods etc and abit less common.
I have heard that connect player is not very reliable...honestly go for sonic stage its pretty reliable and really easy to use.
Get the volume hack of the internet and you can happily wile away your days blasting out your music (and going deaf in the process!)
Its easy to use and the sound is always good quality
My only complaint is that after 6 months of pretty constant use (I use mine every day and use full battery every day), the battery life per day seems to be doing down.
apart from that its great! I recommend you dont drop it though they seem to dent easily!!
(if anybody knows whether its possible to buy an in-car charger for them then please let me know ASAP)
Not the best..........2007-03-07
I am a big Sony fan, and being brand-loyal I went to buy this mp3 player over an ipod or creative.
On reflection I would say I made a mistake. The software is abysmal, and corrupts songs, is slow, and crashes for no apparent reason. It has caused many hours of pain.
The player itself takes ages to boot up when you turn it on, and loves to switch itself off after a minimal delay, this would be okay if it didn't take so long to turn on.
Once it is running though, I really like it, and I think it is the nicest looking player out there.
Unfortunately for me it is not worth the hassle. If you can afford to, look elsewhere.
Customer Reviews:
Generic but branded!.......2008-01-02
Well let's face it, there isn't really any such thing as a generic hard disk, so if you buy this item you're going to get a decent named hard drive of some kind, for me they pulled out a HITACHI Deskstar. No cheaper than anywhere else, but no more expensive either, and of course no delivery charge. Recommended.
Cracking value for money!!!.......2007-07-22
I was a little dubious about buying a Generic Hard Drive, but when I opened the box was amazed to see that it was from a major producer of HDD's. What's more it has a three year warranty. The only downside was that I could not find this model on the manufacturers website.
Product Description
Edge external 3.5" enclosure[usb] - Brushed Aluminium Style
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