I never thought I’d ever own a 1TB (yeah that’s 1 Tera Byte) external hard disk ever. To put it in perspective, 1TB is about 1024 GB of data – easily 4 to 5 times the capacity of most common hard disks nowadays. And how much did I get my Bufallo Drivestation 1TB external hard disk for? Well I got mine for a mere RM 395 from PC Depot in Penang. That’s cheap considering the fact that I got a 120GB Samsung external hard disk for RM 350 just a couple of years ago.

If you leave the mind boggling data capacity aside, this external drive still packs a few punches. It comes with a power savings feature which apparently saves power consumption by up to 75%. It is completely silent, runs very cool and is very cool to look at.

It worked right out of the box and I didn’t have to install any drivers whatsoever in my Apple Macbook. It also has the ability of turning on and off along with your PC but that’s of no use to me since I use it with a laptop. It’s not connected to my external hard drive all the time so I manually switch it on and off when required. I also like the memeo software which comes along with it and it performs a decent job as an auto backup software. If you think you don’t want to use that, then you could use your favorite auto backup software like Time Machine which comes free on the Mac.

It also comes with Secure Lock Ware which basically encrypts your data but this works only with Windows PCs. So for me its of no use. The formatted capacity is 931GB which is pretty normal for a 1TB hard drive. The turbo USB speed is pretty decent while transferring large amounts of data as well.

Overall I feel this is a good buy. Only issue is that the external hard drive requires a power adapter but this is the norm currently for 1TB external drives such as this from Buffalo. So if you are like me with a huge library of music, photos, pictures, videos and source codes you might want to get one for yourself too!

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