The hard drive I used is a hot-running Seagate IV 80GB 7200rpm. Once the new drive was recognized I searched through the hard drive to see what all was on it (I haven't used this one in a while). I transferred some large files to see how the speed was. A 700MB video file took about a minute while a 1.2Gb file took under 2 minutes. Then I watched a 2 1/2 hour video file of a football game from my new USB 2.0 hard drive. Never had any slowdowns or glitches, everything was as smooth as if it were on my master hard drive.

Next I connected it to my second system and transferred some large files and again the speed was most excellent. Under 2 minutes for a 1.2GB file. Also, once attached to the second system, which runs XP, windows just had to read it and everything was ready to rock. Why can't everything be this easy?

ByteCC has a major winner here! Yes you can purchase a USB hard drive already assembled but if you've noticed, they ain't cheap at all. Plus if the hard drive dies, you're out of luck chuck. And with the ME-350 you can change hard drives whenever you want or need to and all the way up to a huge 300GB one and even higher when they are available.

This is great for anyone who needs to transfer large files to various systems. Like from your work to home or vise versa. It's even great for system backups. If your main system goes, you have it all backed up on the ME-350. It can act as an additional hard drive for things like storage and even playing movies from, but important applications should be on your internal hard drives.

The only bad things I can think of is there is no cooling fan and no additional padding for a hard drive. Since it is a tight fit and a hard drive is secured by screws, that shouldn't be a problem because aluminum is tough. And being aluminum, aluminum as we know is used for cpu heatsinks and it is a very good heat absorber so the case in a way acts as a heastink for the hard drive. I ran the hottest running hard drive I have in the enclosure, a Seagate 7200 IV and while the casing gets warm from the heat produced, there were never any problems.

• Very useful device
• Easy to assemble
• Looks sharp, silver aluminum
• Being aluminum it also acts as a hdd heatsink
• Lightweight & Mobile
• Blue LED activity light
• Great for transferring large files quickly and easily system to system
• Stand included, but can be either upright or flat
• USB 2.0, fast and easy
• On/off button
• Great for backups
• Supports 3.5" hard drives up to 300gb, and higher when available
• Backwards compatable with USB 1.1, but slower transfer naturally

• It's portable, but you still have to carry the power cords, adapter and cable with you
• No cooling fan

It isn't as mobile as a pen drive since you also have to carry the power cords and USB cable, but what pen drives have this much potential space and at such an affordable price.

If you're needing an easy and affordable way for backups and to transfer large files then the ByteCC ME-350 is something you should look into. It's easy to assemble, lightweight, mobile and since you can always change the hard drive, it's very flexible. It's great for business people, students, work and any place you need to transfer or backup files. And if you need extra space, this puppy is for you.

Many thanks goes out to the fine people at ByteCC for making this review possible. Direct Link to the ME-350. For the craftsmanship and usefulness the ME-350 has certainly earned our highest honor.