Bipra 500GB 2.5 inch USB 2.0 NTFS Portable External Hard Drive - Blue

Title : Bipra 500GB 2.5 inch USB 2.0 NTFS Portable External Hard Drive - Blue
ASIN : B004LGL0L2
Description : Product Description Detailed Product Features: You can store 500GB data in your Pocket size driver. Ultra Slim Design. Formatted and ready to be used. No messing about needed, just plug it into your USB Ports and away you go!! Support Plug & Play. Ideal for Data Backup, Photos, Video, iTunes, iPod,MP3, MP4 and Presentations etc. Support USB2.0 480MB/Sec Ultra High Transfer speed, copy huge files in a minutes time. It's that easy!! Can be utilised on any Personal Computers, Desktop or Laptop, Apple MACS and UNIX Boxes, etc. Support Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista or later versions. Support Mac OS or later versions. Please note these Support Macs What Hard Drive is used in this product? 500GB 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive A Sata Hard drive 13mm thick 5400 rmp - Very fast drive!! 8MB Buffering Average Seek time: 12ms Storage Capacity on a 500GB External Drive? 240 hour DVD-quality movies, or 330 hours of VHS-quality video, or 240 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio, or 240000 digital photos, or 3300 action-packed games What's included? 1 x 500GB 2.5" External Hard Drive 1 x USB Cable with slipped USB ports
Features :

• Interface: USB 2.0 plug-and-play
• BLUE colour
• 1 Year Warranty With Bipra Limited
• USB Bus Powered - no external power needed

List Price : £42.99
Price : £36.99
Saved Price : £6.00

category: External Hard Drives
brand: Bipra
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.2
Review : good but one issue.
the product itself is a good little piece of kit, only 598Gb of actual memory free to the user (as opposed to the marketed 640Gb) but works well nonetheless.

takes a few minutes to install and boot up on computer but after that once the computer recognizes it it's good to go.

The issue.

while it works fine on my windows 7 laptop and windows vista desktop computer, it will not show up on the two xp computers it was intended for. the purpose for buying this hard drive was to allow for computer backups and to save afew photos to free up space on an iphone.

rung the manufacturers and they say that although it is compatible with xp, some people (most people from what I've read) have problems using it with windows xp.

so just a warning for you all, if you want to use an external hard drive on an xp computer, don't choose this one without expecting some problems.

apart from that, its a handy little storage device with a big...