Because this little hard drive is USB it’s simple to install and requires no drivers as long as you are using one of the supported operating systems. All you need to do is plug this little drive into a USB port and let your operating system find it. I installed the drive on both a Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE machine and in both cases it installed it without me having to use any drivers and without a problem. I plugged the drive into the front USB port of my Cooler Master ATC-101 case which I will have a review of soon and installation process took about 10 seconds from when I plugged it in to when I saw the drive in windows explorer.
Both Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE recognized the drive with no drivers needed, in the device manager the drive shows up as Ur-Disk: USB Mass Storage USB Device and is under the disk drives category. To unplug the device it is best to stop it before you unplug it just to be sure that nothing is using it so you don’t lose any information you might need.
Test bed:
- Cooler Master ATC-101
- EPoX 8K3A+
- Athlon XP 1800+
- 512MB Corsair 3200
- 80GB Maxtor ATA133 HDD
- 3DPower Geforce 3
- Sound Blaster Live! Value
- Pioneer 16x slot load DVD
- 10/100 NIC
- Floppy
To test this drive I loaded up good old SiSoft Sandra and ran the file system benchmark as you can see size doesn’t matter, this little drive beats both floppy drives and the zip drive by a lot, the JAZ drive is faster than this Ur-Disk because it is SCSI which is much faster than USB or IDE, but the JAZ drive is harder to install and less portable. I also did testing with the Ur-Disk transferring files from Windows 2000 to Windows 98SE and everything worked perfectly without a problem and transfers were very fast.
Conclusion:
This little USB hard drive can be utilized in so many ways and make things so much easier. I hate having to use floppy drives to do anything because they are so slow and they only hold 1.44MB of information which now a days is nothing. Whenever you want to transfer files they are usually much larger than a floppy can hold so you will either have to upload them somewhere and download them, burn a CD, or use some kind of other storage device. All of these things will take much longer than you really want or need to spend moving files. This Ur-Disk USB hard drive has so much to offer and there are no negative aspects to it that I can see other than the fact that because its small you could lose it but you can lose big things as well. Overall I am going to give this product a 10/10 and award it the OCmodshop Seal Of Approval because it’s an awesome product. I would like to thank Media West Distribution Inc. for sending this over to review, they have a 64MB and 128MB version available. They also carry Warcraft III and were kind enough to send a copy over which I am giving away as part of the prize pack for the OCmodshop graphic design contest.
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