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: #9658 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!

HP Pocket Media Drive Review
Simply put, the HP Pocket Media Drive is like carrying your computers' hard drive around with you versus carrying a one or two GB flash drive. The advantage comes with knowing you can download or upload whatever your heart desires since you have the available disk space in order to do so. As well, the size of the product is exactly as the description suggests (e.g., it will fit in your pocket if you do not like storing it in your laptop computers' case. The price is very competitive over the Internet - a place where I suggest you purchase the product. All-in-all, the product comes with: 1) carrying case, 2) hp pocket media drive, 3) USB Cable, and 4)set up instructions. BTW, item numbers two through four all fit in item number one (carrying case). Well, I had to have this product since I own a HP computer with the hp pocket media drive bay.