Western Digital My Passport Essential 160 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive WDME1600TN (Midnight Black) by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital My Passport Essential 160 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive WDME1600TN (Midnight Black)
Digital camera Review: Great off-site back-up drive
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this to store my music and photos off-site. Thus, the drive is not in use - it just sits in a drawer at work. For this, it is perfect: inexpensive, large capacity, small.
I pulled the material from my iMac/Leopard and have used it successfully with my HP Mini 1000 netbook/XP SP3 - the fact that it is formatted MS DOS/FAT 32 means that it is a perfect drive to use when transferring iTunes between operating systems - a "Mac compatible" drive would be a problem with XP.
Since I don't write to it all the time, I have no real sense of speed - but moving 187 GB of music to it took a perfectly reasonable amount of time.
Maybe it is me, but I just wouldn't think of using a tiny drive like this for mission-critical data - they're just not designed for that, no matter what anyone tells you. Every external drive, no matter the size, has a high failure rate - just read the reviews here on Amazon - and back the stuff you REALLY care about to an SSD or a DVD...
Digital camera Review: 320 or 298?? and what would u take to EJECT safely
Summary: 4 Stars
I was a bit disappointed to plug the hard drive in and just find 298 GBs of space on it, instead of the advertised 320. Then I did some googeling and found out that this is a scam run by all the hard drive makers when they say they count in the decimal system (1GB = 1000 MBs)whereas the rest of the computer world works in binary (1GB = 1024 MBs)...This is they very very cheap way of fooling customers which I didn't like...
Secondly this particular brand of hard drives has a problem in trying to remove them safely, which I found out after I bought this product...you need to shut down the computer to remove it or remove it "unsafely"...
I don't know if there is a better product out there but if there is then go for that...
Digital camera Review: Western Digital My Passport Essential 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive WDME2500TN (Midnight Black)
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a great product and is very easy to use on both macs and windows :)Digital camera Review: Good External Disk
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a good looking external drive, as fast as USB 2.0 allows.
Cons: It came with FAT32 File system, so is not possible to save files greater than 4 GB.
Digital camera Review: LOVE IT!
Summary: 5 Stars
this little hard drive is great. super small, super easy to use and the price was great.