HP HD5000S Personal Media Drive 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
from: Hewlett Packard
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Product Description:
Data space may be the last frontier in the computing realm, and HP has designed these Personal Media Drives to handle the increased data storage needs of their Media Center computers. Speed of access is ensured with 7200 RPM rotation and USB 2.0 data transfer speeds up to 480 Megabytes per second. 500 Gigabytes Storage will ensure a place to store all of your video and photo data.Technical support:http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=support or 800-474-6836
Data space may be the last frontier in the computing realm, and HP has designed these Personal Media Drives to handle the increased data storage needs of their Media Center computers. Speed of access is ensured with 7200 RPM rotation and USB 2.0 data transfer speeds up to 480 Megabytes per second. 500 Gigabytes Storage will ensure a place to store all of your video and photo data.Technical support:http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=support or 800-474-6836
Features:
- 3.5-inch 500 GB external hard drive fits into Personal Media Drive slot on HP computers and also works with any computer with USB 2.0
- 7200 RPM for fast read/write times; USB 2.0 connection for up to 480 Mbps transfer rate
- Activity and power LED indicators; includes Sonic Backup MyPC software (pre-loaded on drive)
- http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=support
- Technical support 800-474-6836
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- 500 Gig's that works great
The back up hard drive comes with pre-programed software so its just plug and play. For the new bee it may be a bit confuseing because it's set up for so many lang. but with a little nerve to take the first step it's easily mastered and understood.
Its drive letter or the one you assign, recalls information fast for a normal user 480 MB/sec.. For the hot rods it could need to be speeded up somewhat and because of its design it's not so easy to install a small SATA card with plug port. ... Read More
Rating: - Great Bargain for Space
This is a great way to store extra meda (photos, video, music) expanding your computer at a cheap price.Very easy to use - just look onto the explorer for the added drive.It's that easy!
Rating: 
- Failed after only 3 weeks!
I actually loved this drive for the first two weeks. The best thing about it is that it plugs directly into the built-in drive bay on my HP media center PC. Unfortunately, the little, built-in fan on the back of the drive started making a strange, intermittent noise after only 2 weeks and I knew it was going to fail soon.Sure enough, the drive failed one week later.[...] Anyway, if the drive had lasted longer I would probably give it 4 or 5 stars.
Rating: - Hot Swap your Hard Drive Quickly and Easly.
Older computers sometimes require the purchase of additional hardware to hot swap your hard drive. HP fixes this situation. I dumped my Dell computer. What dell was; HP has met and exceeded the quality and innovation of computing. Buy this type of hard drive you won't be sorry.
Rating: - Great, But!
The HP HD5000S 500GB Personal Media External HD that I received works just wonderfully.My only complaint is that it does not come with a complete user or user friendly manual and even the on line one does not explain to less experienced users how to go about transferring music, photos etc. from the C or D drives to the HP Drive "Z".This may be a piece of cake for some, but for others?????? Finally figured it out, but there may be better ways of doing transfers??
- 500 Gig's that works greatThe back up hard drive comes with pre-programed software so its just plug and play. For the new bee it may be a bit confuseing because it's set up for so many lang. but with a little nerve to take the first step it's easily mastered and understood.
Its drive letter or the one you assign, recalls information fast for a normal user 480 MB/sec.. For the hot rods it could need to be speeded up somewhat and because of its design it's not so easy to install a small SATA card with plug port. ... Read More
- Great Bargain for SpaceThis is a great way to store extra meda (photos, video, music) expanding your computer at a cheap price.Very easy to use - just look onto the explorer for the added drive.It's that easy!
- Failed after only 3 weeks!I actually loved this drive for the first two weeks. The best thing about it is that it plugs directly into the built-in drive bay on my HP media center PC. Unfortunately, the little, built-in fan on the back of the drive started making a strange, intermittent noise after only 2 weeks and I knew it was going to fail soon.Sure enough, the drive failed one week later.[...] Anyway, if the drive had lasted longer I would probably give it 4 or 5 stars.
- Hot Swap your Hard Drive Quickly and Easly.Older computers sometimes require the purchase of additional hardware to hot swap your hard drive. HP fixes this situation. I dumped my Dell computer. What dell was; HP has met and exceeded the quality and innovation of computing. Buy this type of hard drive you won't be sorry.
- Great, But!The HP HD5000S 500GB Personal Media External HD that I received works just wonderfully.My only complaint is that it does not come with a complete user or user friendly manual and even the on line one does not explain to less experienced users how to go about transferring music, photos etc. from the C or D drives to the HP Drive "Z".This may be a piece of cake for some, but for others?????? Finally figured it out, but there may be better ways of doing transfers??
