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SmartDisk - you rock my world

(Footnote - I recommend the FireWire Firelite over the USB one, simply because of better performance - however, all of their drives seem great)

As a filmmaker, I depend heavily upon Final Cut Pro and editing footage

I beat the heck outta my external drives —- I store all of my film footage upon them, digitized, and then edit them to death —– so my drives go through tremendous abuse

My interest in FireLite’s were sparked because I liked the small size, that enabled me to edit my footage over my laptop, but then plug the drive into my faster desktop, for better editing —– but I could keep the footage and files together, in one drive

This FireLite disk has been incredible -

1. SPEED — Don’t believe the SPEED hype —- this drive was VERY VERY fast — while 7200 RPM is preferable, I really didn’t see much of a speed difference, and I’m working with footage that needs some heavy rendering

*if you need a drive with great speed though, then get the FireWire 800 FireLite - which I most recommend

2. DURABILITY — This drive is TOUGH —- I have thrown it in my backpack and allowed it to feel the greatest depths of abuse —– it has never broke down on me, no matter how many times I’ve dropped it or punched it (accidently)

3. SIZE —- of course, this drive weighs NOTHING — you’ll find it amazing that you can keep so much film footage in something that weighs less than an common iPod

4. BATTERY —- I don’t know about windoze, but on a Mac, this thing needs no external AC plug ins — its powered off of the laptop bus - less wires make editing more fun!

5. PERFORMANCE —- and of course, the performance of this baby is simply terrific —- I’m happy to do all of my Final Cut Pro editing upon it

That’s about it —- I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more people with SmartDisks, but I think that’s gonna change soon

It’s a terrific product —- and for people who really need speed, get the FireLite (which is the same small size) with FireWire 800 — the speed difference will help greatly for editing

Happy editing! Happy buying!

Update (2/6/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, SmartDisk USBFLB80 FireLite 80 GB 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Electronics, was written by Ali Hasan.

The average rating for this item is 5 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.