Product Description

Unlike desktop external drives mobile external drives can be an accessory to highlight style as well as functions.------Samsungs S Series portable external drive combines an elegant glossy front cover with a sophisticated printed pattern and a luxurious leather-like back cover. Samsungs exclusive USB On-board technology reduces the length of the HDD making this compact external drive smaller than a passport.------For data security the S Series drives support Samsung Auto Backup and SecretZone programs. Samsung Auto Backup program can backup data in real time or per a prearranged schedule. SafetyKey a program that can save backed-up data with a password is available as an option. SecretZone ensures seamless data protection by creating a virtual drive in the external drive for data encryption.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1768 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: HXMU050DA/G22
• Released on: 2008-10-14
• Dimensions: 1.65" h x 5.59" w x 7.09" l, .70 pounds
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Customer Reviews

Samsung s2 500GB
When I plugged the drive in for the first time, it looked as if the drive was dead but I thought I would try a lead from another drive which brought it to life with a little blue light near to the lead on the drive.

I did ring Amazon but was told that they had sold out and may be a while before they had more in and as I had the lead I did not bother.

A slight problem is that the film which is preloaded on the drive stutters a little bit (slight stopping and starting during play back) which I think it may be due to being on a USB drive as I have 4 Gig of memory, a Gforce 9600 graphics card. The film is non transferable to be played from another drive although it can be transferred to another drive to store but then transferred back to the Samsung to be able to be played again.

The size of the drive is normal 2.5 which is handy to carry around and comes with a leather wallet type case although advertised as 500 Gig as normal it is slightly less due to formatting and also has 2 programs

1. Secret Zone which can put a new folder on your computer which can only be assessed with a password.

2. Backup program.

This gives you a total 465 gigs unless you reformat the drive.

Very Good HD
So far, this HD is working perfectly well.
The backup software is also very easy to use, and in my opinion, pretty fast and efficient.
No complaints at all.

External Hard Drive
Does what is says on the tin really. Looks quite funky with a carbon fibre effect casing. Seems sturdy enough. Uses normal mini usb to usb lead. Works fine on usb 2.0 and 1.0. Comes with some onboard samsung backup software so you could use that to make regular backups of your computer if you wished.