Super-Cheap 6GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

As I was surfing last night looking for interesting articles, deals, or whatever else interested me, I came across yet another fantastic deal on portable storage. This one comes to us courtesy of buy.com and Western Digital.

Its a slim pocket-sized 6.0GB USB 2.0 external hard drive for $29.95, and if you sign up for a Google Checkout account, you can save an additional $10 bringing the total price to $19.95. This purchase qualifies for free shipping.

While not exactly a thumb drive, its impressively small size (0.370" Height x 1.80" Width x 2.410" Length) make it a very viable option for anybody looking for a pocket-sized file storage solution.

Western Digital is my first choice brand for hard drives, and with a 2MB buffer, 480Mbps transfer rate, and weighing only 0.10 lbs, I am certainly going to grab one to replace my 1GB Kingston Data Traveler -- which has served me very well -- but only has 56 megabytes of free space after being loaded with my Portable Apps Suite, Portable Photoshop CS2, Portable Dreamweaver 8, PuTTY Portable, and a few must-have PC maintenance tools.

The Western Digital 6GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 and will work on PC, mac, or your favorite flavor of Linux.