Is the 500GB larger or heavier than the 320GB ? and do you recommend this product ? because i've been reading some of the bad comments and they are making me hesitant to buy this
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They will be the same physical size. The 500gb may weigh an ounce more, but I doubt it would be a significant difference.
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My son has the 64 GB and it worked perfectly. I am not sure about the 32 GB.
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You'd think so but the 32GB fills up quickly. Plus if you're using it in undocked mode you can't access anything on the 500GB HDD. It all depends on what you use it for.
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What info I have learned is 32 gig is max. Suggest go to Afunta web and ask
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I am not sure of a 500GB as I don't have one that size to test, but I have used an old 40GB IDE WD drive and it worked fine.
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I bought the 32gb over the 64gb for only one reason a $100.00 savings. I carry 3days worth of music and around 8 hours of video. not to mention all the apps. for me the 32gb was the right decision. Brian
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All depends on what you plan to use it for. Usually more is better. I have the 16GB unit and that is fine for me. I will never use the 16GB. But if you plan to download a real lot then get the bigger one. There is an expansion slot on all.
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This particular model is 500GB. Samsung also has the "Pro" model of the same series that is well worth the extra investment if you are an enterprise or extremely heavy user. A heavy user is someone who writes and rewrites to their drive quite often. This is the real deal. I have the non-pro model and get great R/W speeds but on SATA II connection (310R/260W).This is a great buy. Don't hesitate. I got it for $280 which made it a no-brainer!
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G For me a no-brainer, 64GB +500 GB. I bought my 64GB a month before they started offering the 500GB keyboard and asked if I could trade-up or buy just the HD keyboard. They don't offer either. If you want to store music, movies, some older games, etc. the 500 GB is absolutely the way to go.
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I use a 16 gb with no problems. A friend uses a 32 with no problems. Hope this helps.
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I would imagine the 32 gig model is faster since it would have more flash chips on it. trust corsairs site over all other references which aren't highly trustworthy review sites.
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I did a lot of research on that before purchasing and found out that the 500GB runs at 7200 RPM while the 1GB runs at 5400RPM.Hope that helps!
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Have you received it yet? I am curious if the unit has a 250 or 320 gb hard drive. both sizes are indicated in the description.
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Thanks for all the tips and advice. I've had a 20GB for quite a while. The hard disc failed at one point, but I was fortunately able to fix it. Think I'm going to go for the Classic. That nano is very tempting, but 120GB is hard to beat.
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I'm using it as my C drive. Originally had a 500g, 120g and 160g HD's in my pc. My 500g, which was my C crashed therefore when in the market for a new HD a friend of mine suggested the SSD and also suggested using it as my C drive and use my 120g and 160g as storage. The 500g that crashed, fortunately I had a backup on the 120g and I was able to retrieve all my files (but necessary the programs but I was able to re-install) so a suggestion is to set up the Windows backup!So your thinking is not flawed for using it as the C drive. I'm thinking of getting a 1 or 2 terabyte HD for storage later down the road. I'm using it as my C drive. Originally had a 500g, 120g and 160g HD's in my pc. My 500g, which was my C crashed therefore when in the market for a new HD a friend of mine suggested the SSD and also suggested using it as my C drive and use my 120g and 160g as storage. The 500g that crashed, fortunately I had a backup on the 120g and I was able to retrieve all my files (but necessary the programs but I was able to re-install) so a suggestion is to set up the Windows backup!So your thinking is not flawed for using it as the C drive. I'm thinking of getting a 1 or 2 terabyte HD for... » Read More I'm using it as my C drive. Originally had a 500g, 120g and 160g HD's in my pc. My 500g, which was my C crashed therefore when in the market for a new HD a friend of mine suggested the SSD and also suggested using it as my C drive and use my 120g and 160g as storage. The 500g that crashed, fortunately I had a backup on the 120g and I was able to retrieve all my files (but necessary the programs but I was able to re-install) so a suggestion is to set up the Windows backup!So your thinking is not flawed for using it as the C drive. I'm thinking of getting a 1 or 2 terabyte HD for storage later down the road. « Show Less
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I'm no expert, but this is how I understand it. The 128GB SSD and the 500 GB Hard drive are separate options. You get either/or. The 500GB hard drive has a 8 GB SSD used as a cache. You are not able to use it as storage.
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Hey Douglas, yes the speed is not a problem you can transfer files quickly, though I am not sure how long it takes for 32 gb. I use to transfer everything from my laptop to this external drive. But I would not recommend it. After one year of having it, all of the sudden the drive was not responding it, and was not retreiving my data anymore. Basically all the data I had about 250 gb files was burned and lost. It was quite a tragedy for me. But a classical ipod that I used to have with is also USB was much more worthy to keep it and it still has my data since 7 years that I have it. So, it's better if you buy a classical apple ipod, one of those which is also for music, but it's at the same time a hard drive, or take any other drive that you know from people that are reliable for few years. For example, i never even dropped this disc, I kept it always safe and in a soft case not to be damaged, and it was quite a great shock for me that all of the sudden it just stopped responding and never opened anymore, after only one year of having it!! Cheers and take care! Think before you buy this item, it's not reliable!