External 2.5" HDD enclosure with OLED display & Flash card Slots - £19.94

bingsy

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/106500

External 2.5" HDD enclosure with OLED display & Flash card Slots - £19.94

£19.94 (£24.40 including supersaver delivery)

Although its not evident from Ebuyers page, this device requires a 2.5" laptop hard drive to be fitted (not included). Also, according to the 1 user review at Ebuyer, the HDD needs to be formatted as fat32.

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Details:

Info below is taken from the manufacturers website, here: http://www.asound.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductClass=75&ID=334

Huge storage capacity for thousands of digital photographs, hours of digital video and audio, and data files too.

Copying data files, pictures, videos, music from memory cards to this device without computer

12 in 1 card reader when USB 2.0 connect with PC. Support Mini SD, MS Duo, RS-MMC no needed through adapter.
Big size 3 colors OLED display and black backlight
High Speed USB 2.0 Portable HDD
Internal changeable lithium-ion battery
Card Reader for Memory Cards.
-Support SD, CF I/II, MS, MS Duo, MS pro, xD, MD, MMC card.

This product is the smallest & light integrated solution that provides external hard disk, card reader and memory card backup functions. As a portable external storage device, This product is perfect choice for active mobile users providing a very light and optimal solution for personal information storage and transfer. Any PC with a USB port is enough for user to access documents, music, images, or any other data stored in the internal hard disk. In addition, this product also acts as an all-in-one card reader supporting all major memory card types. Most importantly, this product enhances the mobile users by enabling them to copy the content of a memory card into the internal hard disk without any PC or notebook required. User can backup the memory card content with a touch of the button or erase the memory card with the touch of the button. This product allows the users to easily free up more expansive memory cards for re-use in the field.

This product hook to PC can be achieved using USB 2.0 High Speed (480MMbps) link.

This product comes equipped with an internal Li-polymer rechargeable battery. The battery can be charged either with an external DC adapter or via USB port when connect to the PC or notebook.

spudgun

I was going to buy this one with the 80GB HD, but as this has a card reader and display would be better, whats the cheapest 40GB 2.5 " HD?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=370169

gromituk

I think that's an LCD, not an OLED display.

beerbellybill999

bingsy said :

"Although its not evident from Ebuyers page, this device requires a 2.5" laptop hard drive to be fitted (not included). Also, according to the 1 user review at Ebuyer, the HDD needs to be formatted as fat32."


If that is the case then it won't be able to handle any file above 2GB in size ie DVD images etc.

Sorry can't get quote to work today for some reason

bingsy

gromituk wrote:

I think that's an LCD, not an OLED display.

According to the manufacturers webpage the display is a "3 colour OLED display and black backlight".

Regarding formatting of the HDD: I'm only going by what the single reviewer on Ebuyer says. I don't own one so can't say. According to the manufacturers website: "File system: FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32"

Jon_C

These kinds of gadgets are very handy for backing up photos while out and about.

This is a good price - but not, of course, if you live in Northern Ireland because Ebuyer's delivery surcharge is £15.

They use an expensive courier rather than the basic Royal Mail recorded delivery option which costs the same throughout the UK.

Ebuyer did reduce this surcharge for a while ages ago but it's back on now - so they won't be getting my money any more!

Sorry to go slightly off topic but I just wanted to save fellow Northern Ireland MSEs from wasting their time by clicking on the link to this product like I did.

Thanks to the OP anyway.

gromituk

bingsy wrote:

According to the manufacturers webpage the display is a "3 colour OLED display and black backlight".

Black backlight? Hehe - no backlight - you don't need them with emissive displays.

I can't see any signs of more than one colour on the photo, so I'm not sure it's the same spec.

It's quite likely the filesystem cannot support anything beyond FAT32 because NTFS is protected by patents, I believe.

pip32

Jon_C wrote:

These kinds of gadgets are very handy for backing up photos while out and about.

This is a good price - but not, of course, if you live in Northern Ireland because Ebuyer's delivery surcharge is £15.

They use an expensive courier rather than the basic Royal Mail recorded delivery option which costs the same throughout the UK.

Ebuyer did reduce this surcharge for a while ages ago but it's back on now - so they won't be getting my money any more!

Sorry to go slightly off topic but I just wanted to save fellow Northern Ireland MSEs from wasting their time by clicking on the link to this product like I did.

Thanks to the OP anyway.

I work for an IT company in Belfast, we order from suppliers all the time on the mainland and they use Royal Mail and City Link as well as Ebuyer.

A lot of these outlets are small than ebuyer yet they have reasonable charges for Northern Ireland deliveries.

Either the couriers are ripping off NI customers or Ebuyer are.

Sort it out Ebuyer