On 2021-03-13 3:01 p.m., Ken Blake wrote:
On 3/13/2021 1:26 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
micky wrote:
Why is this so small?
Alternatively, why aren't they all so small? Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Less than
4" x 1 1/4" x 1/3".
Is it a real HDD, a spinner, with a rotating platter?Â*Â* It calls it a
harddrive more than once, and never uses SSD, etc. but it's so small.
https://www.amazon.com/External-Hard...9&sr=1-11&th=1


What about that it has no brand name?Â* Would you buy it for a backup
drive?

For file backup, is a real 2.5" external drive better for backup?
external 2.5" HDD, SSD, 3.5" HDD in a dock

Â*Â* No offense, but why even consider stuff from weird merchants which
peddle their stuff via Amazon!?

Â*Â* Don't you have *reputable* webshops in the US?


As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is completely reputable. I buy many
things from them--probably somewhere around 100 a year--and I've never
had a problem, except once when a product I expected to receive never
arrived. Amazon not only refunded what I had paid, but also gave me a
credit ($10, If I remember correctly).


Yes, Amazon itself is very reliable, I too place many orders per year
and have no problems. what you have to watch for are the crappy shyster
vendors and their stupidly outages prices.
Yesterday my son went to Safeway and got me nine packages of flieshmans
fast rising yeast, 9 pack cost $6.87 cdn, just for kicks I went on
Amazon.ca, the same 9 packs sold for $15.25. Buyer Beware!

Rene