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Travel Star Super Slim USB 2.0 External Storage System
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3 37567 11-01-2005
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67% of reviewers $24.33 7.0



Description: This is a basic kit for use with a hard drive (hard drive seperate from the kit.) I installed an 80 GB udma Western Digital with the kit and it works great.

Here is what it says on the back of the box.

Human Nature Design, easy installation -
Driverless (except win98)
The Maximum support capacity 200GB -
External power supply
AC input:100~240V/50~60Hz
DC output:5V/12V
Shell material:Aluminim
Demensions:185x110x33mm
Supports Windows 98/SE/ME/200/XP, Mac OS8.6 or latest version.................
.......AND NOW WE KNOW it works with Linux ;) (and the guy at the computer store said it wouldn't. The sad thing is he makes custome computers with Lindows. You would think he would know these things or how to find out, lol.

It comes with the USB cable, power supply, case for the hard drive. The front end of the case has the USB and power connections. The front end of the case easily plugs into the hard drive then you screw it all together. (four screws to hold the hard drive in place and two tiny screws to fasten the frontend to the case.

The case is warm to touch but it is not over heating. I have had it running for almost 24 hours straight with out any problems. It cost me 30 USD with tax. Not bad for my area.

Webwolf
Keywords: USB Storage External Hard Drive Mobile
/sbin/lspci output: /dev/sda
Connection Type: USB


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Old 09-04-2005, 11:22 AM   #1
webwolf70
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Windows XP. I gave up with Linux & I left LQ.
Posts: 502

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $30.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.4-21.9
Distribution: Suse 9.3 Pro



No problems with the install at all. Very easy kit to use and put together.
 
Old 09-29-2005, 01:30 PM   #2
wi_slacker
 
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Slackware 9.1
Posts: 14

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Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): $23.00 | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10-5-386
Distribution: Ubuntu -Hoary


The kit went together fine (some real small screws, have a good driver set handy), but Ubuntu does not recognize it. Windows recognizes but cannot load the drivers.

What setting is your master/slave/cs jumper on? I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but mine is on cs (cable select).

It shows a green light when connected to both my windows and ubuntu boxes, but neither can actually use it.

It came with no instructions whatsoever, and a mini cd with usb *.inf files on it - ghetto. Thats why it was $23 I guess.
 
Old 11-01-2005, 03:46 AM   #3
 
Registered: Dec 1969
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $20.00 | Rating: 6

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It works well, but only in full-speed mode (12 Mbps). It is impossible to run it at larger speeds (as should have an USB 2.0 high-speed, theoretically up to 480 Mbps!!!).
 




  



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