Product Description

HP PD1600 160GB 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: #7633 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: PD1600
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .63" h x 5.38" w x 3.18" l, 2.09 pounds
• Hard Disk: 160GB

Features

• 2.5-inch 160 GB external hard drive fits into chassis slot of select HP computers and works with any computer with USB 2.0
• USB 2.0 connection for up to 480 Mbps transfer rate
• Activity and power LED indicators; bus-powered; includes Sonic Backup MyPC software
• 1-year limited warranty
• Device measures 3.18 x 0.63 x 5.38 inches (WxHxD)

Customer Reviews

HP Pocket Media Drive
This little drive is a must have addition to your HP computer. Even as a small external drive, it is wonderful. You can carry photos or music from one computer to the next with no software to load. Very versitle, and functional addition to your computer.

Very nice miniature drive. Works with Macs!
First let's get some technical details out of the way that were unclear to me before I purchased this drive. 1: It works with Macs perfectly after a quick formatting with Disk Utility which comes with Mac OS X. 2: The supplied USB cord is "Y" shaped and has two USB plugs at the computer end. The second plug is only needed if your machine lacks USB 2 in which case a second port is used for additional power to the drive. I'm not sure how to tell if a given port is USB 1 or 2 as they look identical to me, but I can use the drive with both my 4 year old PowerBook and my new MacBook Pro using only a single port. 3: The drive has no power cord. It is powered solely by the USB cable (very cool).

Included with the drive is a nice black padded "wallet" case within which the drive can remain while in use. The case has enough extra room to store the included USB cable. The drive is a great price and seems very well made. It is (importantly for some) plenty stylish enough to be seen next to a Mac!

Ideal for my needs
I recently purchased a new HP Pavilion and noticed the two media drive bays, one for the "pocket" drive and the other for the "personal". In the interest of upgrading my backup options, I bought one of each. As the name implies, the pocket drive's form factor is smaller...by approximately half, I'd say. It plugs straight in to a port on the front of the Pavilion and is recognized in short order by Windows Vista. On the front panel, a blue LED lights up and flickers away during data transfer.

I'm using this with the GoodSync Pro utility to keep all of my files backed up. What can I really say, other than to praise the great design and functional excellence of a high quality product. The folks at HP really did a nice job with this drive. If you need an onsite external drive backup solution, I'd recommend this as ideal for the job. If you need more storage space, the personal drive version provides 500GB and 750GB options.

Of course, these drives will work equally well on non-HP PCs...you just won't have the convenient port built-in to the computer chassis. But the included USB cable will allow you to connect to any compatible system.