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TEAC's new 160GB external hard drive, model #HD3U-160, is a lightweight, compact, preformatted 5400RPM drive offering up to 480MB/sec data transfer, which is more than ample for the sort of video capture, storage, staging, and archiving that digital studio pros demand of their desktop peripherals. In testing, the drive plugged-and-played (PC running) without a hitch on the Compaq testbed (see specs above) running Windows XP Home and using Compaq's the factory-installed USB 2 port.
Although billed as a 160GB drive, the TEAC actually registers 149GB (and shows up as a Samsung product) when first installed. This disparity may be explained by the usual marketing/techie gap in how you define a gigabyte (beginning with the issue of 1MB=1 million bytes or 1.048 million bytes), or space...