WANTED: Portable Media Drives for Gateway

[JoeyAnyc]

My Gateway computer came with the bay for Portable Media Drives.
However, I can not find these anywhere. They should have replaced
the bay with something else, **** Best Buy!!!

Does anyone have any they would like to sell?
Please respond.

Thanks so much.

Joey

PS - I would like the 160GB drives, however I'll take any size

[BillW50]

Post by JoeyAnyc
My Gateway computer came with the bay for Portable Media Drives.
However, I can not find these anywhere. They should have replaced
the bay with something else, **** Best Buy!!!
Does anyone have any they would like to sell?
Please respond.
Thanks so much.
Joey
PS - I would like the 160GB drives, however I'll take any size.

I can't think of what those portable media drives are, except for flash
drives. If that is what they are for, they are all over the place. My
Gateways and EeePCs can use SD flash drives. I have lots of them.
Unfortunately the one in my two 2006 Gateways can only read up to 1GB
flash drives. While my five EeePCs can use up 32GB flash drives.

[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, at 05:59:01 -0500,
*-* In Article h4eouh$n6t$***@news.eternal-september.org,
*-* BillW50 wrote
*-* About Re: WANTED: Portable Media Drives for Gateway

Post by BillW50

Post by JoeyAnyc
My Gateway computer came with the bay for Portable Media Drives.
However, I can not find these anywhere. They should have replaced
the bay with something else, **** Best Buy!!!
Does anyone have any they would like to sell?
Please respond.
Thanks so much.
PS - I would like the 160GB drives, however I'll take any size.

I can't think of what those portable media drives are, except for
flash drives.

No, this is what the OP is referring to:

http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Portable-Media-External-PMD01160H/dp/B000ZUTU9C

Post by BillW50
If that is what they are for, they are all over the
place. My Gateways and EeePCs can use SD flash drives. I have lots
of them. Unfortunately the one in my two 2006 Gateways can only read
up to 1GB flash drives. While my five EeePCs can use up 32GB flash
drives.

From that Amazon page:

"Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."

That seems to be the situation with every vendor that has a listing
for it, and there are none listed on eBay. :-(

Ken Whiton

[BillW50]

Post by Ken Whiton
*-* On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, at 05:59:01 -0500,
*-* About Re: WANTED: Portable Media Drives for Gateway

Post by BillW50

Post by JoeyAnyc
My Gateway computer came with the bay for Portable Media Drives.
However, I can not find these anywhere. They should have replaced
the bay with something else, **** Best Buy!!!
Does anyone have any they would like to sell?
Please respond.
Thanks so much.
PS - I would like the 160GB drives, however I'll take any size.

I can't think of what those portable media drives are, except for
flash drives.

http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Portable-Media-External-PMD01160H/dp/B000ZUTU9C

Post by BillW50
If that is what they are for, they are all over the
place. My Gateways and EeePCs can use SD flash drives. I have lots
of them. Unfortunately the one in my two 2006 Gateways can only read
up to 1GB flash drives. While my five EeePCs can use up 32GB flash
drives.

"Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."
That seems to be the situation with every vendor that has a listing
for it, and there are none listed on eBay. :-(
Ken Whiton
--
FIDO: 1:132/152

Oh that's just a common 160GB USB 2.5 inch hard drive. You can get those
anywhere. As long as you don't need the Gateway name plate. <grin>

[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, at 16:36:32 -0500,
*-* In Article <h4ii93$fjh$***@news.eternal-september.org>,
*-* BillW50 wrote
*-* About Re: WANTED: Portable Media Drives for Gateway

Post by BillW50

Post by Ken Whiton

Post by BillW50

Post by JoeyAnyc
My Gateway computer came with the bay for Portable Media Drives.
However, I can not find these anywhere. They should have replaced
the bay with something else, **** Best Buy!!!
Does anyone have any they would like to sell?
Please respond.
Thanks so much.
PS - I would like the 160GB drives, however I'll take any size.

I can't think of what those portable media drives are, except for
flash drives.

http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Portable-Media-External-PMD01160H/dp/B000ZUTU9C

Post by BillW50
If that is what they are for, they are all over the
place. My Gateways and EeePCs can use SD flash drives. I have lots
of them. Unfortunately the one in my two 2006 Gateways can only
read up to 1GB flash drives. While my five EeePCs can use up 32GB
flash drives.

"Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."
That seems to be the situation with every vendor that has a listing
for it, and there are none listed on eBay. :-(

Oh that's just a common 160GB USB 2.5 inch hard drive. You can get
those anywhere. As long as you don't need the Gateway name plate.
<grin>

... Or the ability to utilize the "docking" bay that's built into
certain models of Gateway computers. From that same Amazon page:

"Gateway desktop compatibility: This drive is fully compatible with
Gateway desktops that feature the portable media drive bay. Simply
slide the drive into the bay to back up files or transfer large
amounts of data."

Ken Whiton