Product Description

HP HD7500S 750GB Pocket Media Drive. The HP Personal Media Drive is the fast and easy way to add high speed storage to your PC. It provides the storage you need for your digital photos, videos, MP3 files and recorded TV programs, and it serves as a great way to back up your personal files. It can also be easily moved between PCs and notebooks when you need to transfer data. The HP Personal Media Drive is a neat, sleek external drive that can connect directly to your laptop or PC via USB cable. It is designed to fit into the front of the HP Pavilion Media Center TV PC, full ATX Pavilion series and HP Digital Entertainment Center, so you can add storage without opening up your PC or even turning it off, and without having to find more space or handle more cables.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17721 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: HD7500S
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x 1.50" w x 4.63" l,
• Hard Disk: 750GB

Features

• 750GB Personal Media Drive
• Works with Any USB Enabled PC or Notebook
• Make Room for the Digital Files from Digital Camera, Camcorder, MP3 Player
• Add Storage without Opening Up Your PC or Turning it Off
• 4.0 Lbs (WxLxH) 5.0" x 4.63" x 1.5"

Customer Reviews

Perfect Fit
This Personal Media Drive is a perfect fit for the HP Pavilion m9040n. My HP downloaded the drives automatically. There is no software. It's just plug n' play and unlike some other reviewers, I haven't noticed any noise at all coming from the fan on my pc or the drive itself.

There are less expensive add on hard drives out there but they are external. The Seagate Free Agent series comes to mind as a good external hard drive in my experience. But, if you have an HP or Compaq that will accomodate the Personal Media Drive internally, then it's worth the extra money in my opinion. I agree with another reviewer who said "I feel like this drive completes my HP".

Of course, I'm sure that it was HP's plan all along to create a situation where the HP buyers feel compelled to drop a couple of hundred bucks or more on the HP hard drive instead of a cheaper external drive. It worked.

Great, compact drive - especially if you own an HP with a Media Drive bay
To start off this review, I'd like to point out that this drive DOES work with HP models other than those included in the description. My HP m9040n claims it only supports 500MB Personal Media Drives and 160MB Pocket Media Drives, but this 750GB drive worked perfectly and was recognized instantly.

I've owned a number of external hard drives, and this is by far my favorite. The 750GB gives you 698GB of usable space (using the 1GB = 1000MB standard).

If you have an HP with a Personal Media Drive bay, this simply slides in and receives power and USB connection from the PC, so no additional cables are needed. To plug it into a non-HP machine, it includes a power adapter and USB Cable - I was a bit disappointed with how the power adapter is set up (it's a thick 3-pronged power cable, much like the one used to plug in your computer or monitor, which then plugs into a power brick and then into the drive itself - not the most portable if you plan to use it on the go). I would have also liked a firewire connection as the USB speeds can be limiting, especially if you have a large number of USB devices in use.

The drive is very quiet (compared to my WD Mybook, it's almost completely silent). The fan also lines up with the slots in the back of HP machines to allow airflow when used in a personal media drive bay.

I've used this drive for a few weeks and find it to be reliable so far - I haven't had it "disappear" like other drives have, it also hasn't given me errors when transferring files (even a 550 GB file transfer to the drive went without problems - it just took many hours!).

Streaming video content works fine (no stuttering). I havent tried any of the backup functions yet, but HP machines that have a drive bay for it also have an "Easy Backup" button on the system. Very satisfied with the drive and would buy another the next time I need a new drive.

Verry good hard drive
This hard drive works great on my HP media center computer, it fits right in the opening for it. If you are looking for an external drive that fits in your HP PC this drive works on personal media drive aplications not pocket media drive.