Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive
Digital camera Review: Awesome device
Summary: 5 Stars
This little gadget is amazing. The thing that i like the most about it is its size. Very practical and whole lot of memory....Digital camera Review: Awesome product that comes with a lousy software!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an awesome product which comes with some pathetic software!! The drive itself is very compact, stylish and works with a USB port. No need to have a seperate power input as it gets powered thru USB from your PC / Laptop. It doesn't make any noice and it is kinda small for the storage it offers. One can just carry it in his / her pocket!! I love this product!!
Biggest downside of this product is the software that comes with it. Initially, the drive did not work with Windows Explorer. I thought this works only with the WD Sync software that comes with it and tried using it. Boy!! This is one piece of junk software. It was very slow, very confusing and it doesn't work!! I was so frustrated with it that I packed the whole stuff and placed a return of the order. My friend suggested formatting the disk and try Windows Explorer then. I did that and only then whole thing started working!! It's awesome now...I just dumped the software that comes with it.
Digital camera Review: Awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this as a gift, and initially was disappointed. I wanted one of those huge 500 GB WD external HD, but my sister frets over the load I carry in my backpack, and she decided that I was going for compact, light and practical.
Well, I was undoubtedly the envy of my graphics class. It is compact, AND light, AND oh-so-practical. No extra wires, no worrying about transporting in bomb-proof cases, no using valuable desk-top space and worrying about outlets and power sources.
At the time I received the product, I had a Dell at home, and worked on Macs in the lab at school. I had no problems with saving my work-in-progress and working on it at home on the PC. (Of course, I had corresponding software on both, don't take that to mean that you can use it on different machines if you don't have the software) At the time, I had a USB 1.0 hub, and had no problems with that either.
I have to admit, it works like a dream, I have had no problems what-so-ever with the WD 160 GB Passport External HD. I have been using it since January 2007, during the semester that amounted to approximately 5 day/ week at anywhere from 3 to 10 hours a day. (that is plugging and unplugging from class to lab, and back and forth from school to home) This did not limit me to the amount of work I could take home to work on like the thumb drives did, and for it's physical dimensions, 160 GB seems perfect!
By the end of the semester, over half my class had purchased their own. BTW, I DO have larger external HDs now, on my desktop for more permanant storage of my work. But, for school and on-the-go, this smaller, lighter HD can't be beat!
I most heartily recommend this hard-drive!
Digital camera Review: Awesome...
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a 250GB WD MyBook hard drive. Bought this one for its compactness. Though I was wary of buying this product after reading about the power surge issues, I still went ahead. I think I have made a good decision. It worked well on my Toshiba laptop and on my dad's HP laptop. So far so good.Digital camera Review: Bad store, bad add, bad everything
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm completely unsatisfied with my purchase. To start, it was advertised that the HD would come WITH a case. But it seems from the store point of view, that it's an amazon problem with misspelling, not the store. The cable for the WD worked fine for 3 days, then it simply stop working. Until I figure it out it was just a cable, I had already freaked out about all the loss in my data. And after complaining twice (first about the lack of case in my order) and then about the return of the cable, the seller asked me to send it all back and that they'd give me my money back. Since I didnt trust anything they said before, I kept the HD and bought a new cable. But NEVER EVER AGAIN gonna buy anything from this seller again!