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The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive

The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive

228 reviews

Apr, 2025

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 228 reviews of The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive. The average rating for this product is 4.3/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 87/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.co.uk review summary for The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive

alaTest has collected and analyzed 52 user reviews of The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk.

90% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2025

Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive

alaTest has collected and analyzed 149 user reviews of The Techguys 160GB 2.5 Laptop PATA Internal HARD Drive from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.2/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com.

88% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2025

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Lasted Longer Than Expected

Cheap, worked for 2 years

Have to change it again but oh well

Apr, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great deal!!

Got 3 of these refurbished 160GB SSD to replace aging laptop spinning hard drives, they all works!!! Here are the summary of their conditions: all writes at 150MBytes/sec, reads at 230MBytes/sec Two has 100% life with 1 day and 2 days powered on time...

bargain refurbished 160GB SSD

None

Feb, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

it doesn't spin

fast and cheap... great for a boot disk or to spice up an old laptop. would highly suggest

nothing yet

Jan, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

get it

awesome ssd. cheap because it was refurbished and runs like a dream

none

Jan, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Fits in a Shirt Pocket

It's the perfect Hard Drive for students who do projects and need to bring them to school. A lot of times a 2 to 4gb Flash drive is just too small.

It's ACTUALLY portable. The software that comes with it is very robust too. It's nice to have 160gb's of space and be able to slip in my shirt pocket and go. Inexpensive

A really short cord, but it's a small price to pay

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great product

For easy use with anyone, just plug and drag and drop....

Great, easy to use. No extra downloads or anything. Just plug and play

None that I have found

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Weak documentation

Price

Short cable. Bought a longer (6 ft) cable so I could leave it on the desk instead of the floor, but does not work. User manual does not state any limitation on length or specified what type of connector. Looked like a 5 pin mini b to me

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Cheap + Quick

This is for Dub from the last reply. Yes, you won't be able to use it for mac right off the box, because it is formatted differently. if you want to interchange between Mac and window, google a way to format the harddrive so that it's works for both...

Small, fast, quiet, cheap

get somewhat warm, short usb cable

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Seagate Hard Drive

Good Job New Egg. As usual.

Awesome Drive, slim. good look

None

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Good drive, only Windows operable

Cool product, if I only wanted it for Windows it would have been awesome.

With my Windows computer, the transfer was FAST, was great to not have a power cord, and has a really good size and form factor

I was upset when I hooked it up to my iMac, but was not allowed to save docs…I wanted an HD I could use on both to port graphics and music/ movies back and forth between MacOS and Windows. I guess I should have done more research, but NewEgg had...

Jun, 2009

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