Really shouldn't have to jump thru so many hoops to get a simple device to work. Wasted almost an hour of my time.

retractable design, reasonably sturdy plastic, Good speed; HD Tune measured 20MB/s average read speed; Write speed is about 10MB/s; That's 1.5x faster than the Kingston DataTraveler 2GB and the Sandisk cruzer 4gb I have

Windows 7 does not recognize the stick when first plugged in; Windows XP does; Went into "Device Manager" and saw "Store N Go" in the USB device list; Trying updating the driver (auto method) in Windows 7 but it says it is already up to date; Search the web for solution but nothing.

As we saw with Verbatim's 500GB drive it's a company with a real talent for compact designs. With the Store ‘n' Go 1TB Verbatim has managed to shrink its device down to the smallest size you could possibly imagine containing a 2.5in hard drive – not a millimetre is wasted.

Super-compact and stylish to boot

Rough software solution

There are literally thousands of choices out there when buying a pre-configured external hard drive. With many factors to account for, like warranty duration, price, looks, size or performance, the choice is hard.

Excellent to reasonable price (depending on color option; Good USB 2.0 performance; Nice and compact; Nero BackItUp & Burn Essentials included on the drive; "Go Green" Application to control standby of drive; Loads of different color options; Informative packaging

Only 2 years warranty - retail Samsung HM321HI drive comes with three; No frills drive; USB connector on the side of device

This simple little drive is available in six exotic shades, as well as sober black and silver models. Our sample was Eucalyptus Green, but in our view the tasteful metallic design looks great in any colour.

Verbatim's latest line of portable hard disks add a splash of colour to what is normally a quite generic looking product. Our review sample came in bright purple, but you also have a whole rainbow of colours to choose from, including orange, blue, pink, green, silver and black.

The Verbatim 500Gb Store n Go are small and very convenient because they are self powered. The cable is a bit short, but OK. Picked them because of the firewire 800 - at least twice as fast as USB 2.0 drives. Came formatted HFS Journeled - perfect for OS X. So far so good.

quiet; fast; Easy to Setup/Install; easy to use

This was purchased for my brother-in-law for Christmas. Prior to receiving it, he had no clue what it was for. He has found it very easy to use and loves the amount of items he can store on it. He reports that it is the best present I have given him by far.

Latest update 15th Nov: 7 years warranty in the US, only 2years warranty in Europe I want a compact, light weight, portable hard disk with reasonable capacity to back up data and files from my PCs and netbook. So I shopped around for similar product by other manufacturers.

compact; 2x faster than USB2.0 drives; 7 years limited warranty (US; Europe 2 years only

Factory formatted FAT32 needs to be converted to NTFS to make it much faster

Bought one of these a while ago to use for school. I keep it on my keychain so I pretty much take it anywhere.. and it is still alive. Very durable and reliable.

Durable; Reliable; Capless design

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I specifically bought this to replace the one I lost that was just like it. When I purchased the first one, nearly 2 years prior, I had no idea which one was a good one. I checked it out as best I could at the time and bought one of these.