In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:57:51 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2021-03-13 16:24, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
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? ************** Less
than 4" x 1 1/4" x 1/3".
Is it a real HDD, a spinner, with a rotating platter?** 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?* 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

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

** 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


Amazon relies on "It's Amazon, so it must be OK" factor. My take is the
precise opposite. If it's Amazon, it's probably not OK. For one thing,
Amazon takes a hefty slice of that vendor's prices. I prefer to deal
with vendors directly, not through Amazon. They are not alone. Even Best
Buy is a problem, most of their bargains are from 3rd party vendors.
Even Staples now offers goods "shipped directly from the merchant".

I prefer supporting a local brick'n'mortar shop if possible. They pay
taxes locally. Amazon doesn't. It's a free-loader. Example: The town

The law in the US is that if a merchant has a physical presence in a
state, they have to collect sales tax and send the money to the state
where the customer is. For years Amazon had few locations, I'm
guessing 3 or 4 warehouses, but 5 or so years ago I guess because they
had launched their speedy deliver plan, they built warehouses in maybe
47 of the 50 states. (including a big one in Baltimore where part of
Bethlehem Steel was, and a big one near NorthEast Md that stocks a
different category of things.) So they do collect sales tax.

(What I don't understand is when they say "Only 2 left" but they still
deliver in about the same length of time. Are they counting only things
in warehouses near me, or do they only have 2 in the entire country? If
the latter, there must be an awful lot of shipping back and forth and
hither and yon and to and fro.

needs cash to pay for snow plowing. Amazon depends on that service so

And they pay property tax, and their mostly low-paid workers pay taxes.

the delivery trucks can get to the customers. But Amazon don't pay a
cent towards the cost of that service.

Best,

But I do prefer to buy things locally. If I were not old and fat and
worried about Corona, I wouldn't rely on mail order (and grocery
delivery) so much, and I hope to go back to normal within a year.