What is this for?

[Bloodman]

On the front of my m7360y HP desktop, there a slot for a "personal media drive". It opens up, and it looks like a hard drive can fit in there. Any idea? The manual just says Personal Media Drive without an explanation.

[OnBake Platinum]

It's for a HP product that is an external hard drive.

http://www.baggenstos.ch/images/prods/0105080H.jpg
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/images/hp_personal_media_server2.jpg

[Bloodman]

ah. It looks terrible.

I just read up on it. It supposedly costs 250 dollars with only 160gb. I can get 300 for 200 or in some places as low as 150.

[Viper]

My moms new comp has a slot for one of those and I had no what the fuck it was for. I just knew it was eating up a lot of space and had zero documentation about it from HP.

If that's what it is, that's absolutely asinine.

[Bloodman]

HP could have used that area for something.

[Boggy700]

I guess it's for people who don't know how easy it is to put in an internal hard drive.
Or those who don't realise that there are external hard drives being sold.
Or something.

[Bloodman]

external drives pwn

[Viper]

external drives pwn

Old drives from upgrading your computer made into external drives so that you don't lose 3 years worth of data pwn even more.

[Bloodman]

Old drives from upgrading your computer made into external drives so that you don't lose 3 years worth of data pwn even more.

new drives with 3x's the storage of any yesterday drive allows you to store all your 3 years worth of files and all other files compromising of 200-300gb pwns harder

[Viper]

Mine is 250 GB. It WAS internal until upgrading to a new mobo, CPU, etc...meant no possible use as it were in the old comp. So having your new cake and eating it too, yeah, that pwns.


This HP thing....doesn't pwn.

[Garfunkel]

agreed, what a dumb idea. That's all it is, they could have put some other drive or filter or something in it's place...

[=NukeBlaze=]

The drive is nothing more than a HP property USB external drive. The back side of the unit has a power and a propriety USB pin out which interlocks with the slot. You can get a USB drive at a large capacity for a cheaper price as has been already noted.

[Garfunkel]

Incorrect. It is a dramatic and revolutionary development and innovation HP offers it's customers when they purchase a quality computer from HP. It offers their customers a new, advanced and ingenious high-capacity storage medium using HP's innovative new proprietary USB platform! This new HP development allows consumers to store literally minutes of low-resolution footage and almost 2 handfulls of high-compression HPeg images! All for the generously low price of $499.99! Don't miss this chance to catch a great deal at HP! Visit HP's website for more details:

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