Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped

[Panopticon]

Amazon often makes me chuckle. The review of a FireWire400 model, by 'Electronics Junkie' (a Windows user). who bought a USB model! Priceless.
"quite" and "returning the drive" ? Is a reformat that difficult in Windows?

Looks like a great drive but came with VIRUS,
November 17, 2005
Reviewer: Electronics Junkie (Memphis, TN)
I must say that my initial impression was very favorable for this drive. Small, quite {sic}, and easily powered by my laptop using only power from the USB port.

My initial satisfaction was quickly erased when I opened Windows Explorer ... Needless to say, I am returning the drive.

EDIT: removed the ref. to 'Combo' as it's not offered as such, DOH!

[nwyaker]

Great find ! I'm in for two. The specs at SmartDisk say the case is magnesium, drive speed 5400 RPM, two FW ports, bus powered.

http://www.smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdisku...orthdd.asp

[mattkime]

I just picked up five of them. Anyone know what drives are in these? Hm, docs say 5400rpm. I might upgrade a couple of laptop hard drives with these. Should be a speed boost over the 20GB drive in my ibooks.

[TheTominator]

Thanks.

I just ordered two.

[space-time]

like I said, I got 2, but now I think I should have gotten more...

on the other hand, it could be a typo, so I'll stick with 2 for now

[nwyaker]

Remember the SmallDog iBooks ? If they cancel, what lost ?
Once this gets on FW , the eBayers will pounce.
They are on Amazon for about $ 30 also.

[macphanatic]

Anyway to power them from a laptop that has a 4 pin firewire port? I'm thinking about one for my work laptop, but don't want to lug a power adapter brick.

[Mike Sellers]

Price jumped to 59.02 while I was ordering. Damn!!

[clay]

price through checkout was the lower price, now when I check my order status, it lists the higher price. hmmm. time to get in touch with customer service.

[comaplate]

probably was a typo, now listed as $59.02