Western Digital Passport Essential Portable 250GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (WDME2500TN) by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital Passport Essential Portable 250GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (WDME2500TN)
Digital camera Review: very useful external storage
Summary: 5 Stars
Good and easy to use. I plug it in when I want to backup stuff, and then remove the disk to keep the data nice and as safe as possibleDigital camera Review: Products like these should be banned
Summary: 1 Stars
This is an unreliable piece of hardware.
I purchased a 160 GB USB 2.0 external drive... after 4 months, it all of a sudden, unexpectedly stopped working, stopped mounting... I had 96 GB of work in there, now a company is charging me 2,600 $US IF THEY CAN recover the data... the hardware itself malfunctioned.
I have been working with computers for over 20 years now... have personally had 14 different macs of all types through the years... and in my company have 30 users... 4 of them have these disks 2 now have similar issues... no EHD is 100% reliable... but these are ridiculous... in any storage capacity.
Western Digital should pay me for recovering my data.
Digital camera Review: Stats for copying data! Nothing more needed
Summary: 5 Stars
It appears the other 300+ reviews have covered most of the +s and -s of the hard drive. It's a great little drive from what I've seen so far. I received the HD and immediately did a full format into NTFS. when I did the quick format in Vista, it converted it to something similar to NTFS (Xfat or something weird) but NOT the true NTFS. I would recommend a full format, obviously.
Here is what I'm getting on a simple robocopy command for stats on the drive. This is a mix of small (1-2Mb) to large (1XXMB) files being copied:
STATS below....
Dirs : 1640
Files : 15257
Bytes : 5.475 GB
Times : 0:08:38 (8 mins 38 seconds)
Speed : 649.349 MegaBytes/min.
Buy it you will not be disappointed from what I've seen.
Digital camera Review: WD My Passport Essential (320 GB) USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Review
Summary: 5 Stars
- Fast access/storage speeds
- Cost/Memory ratio is very good
- Ultra portable (small size and low weight)
Digital camera Review: Satisfied with Product
Summary: 4 Stars
So I spent many weeks looking for a portable hard drive after exceeding my 3rd thumb drive's capacity. I wanted a PHD (portable hard drive) that:
1) did not require an external power supply,
2) was small as possible,
3) high the lowest cost per MB, and
4) was as reliable as a solid-state thumb drive.
I read the reviews and trolled Amazon and other websites reading reviews. I kept coming back to WD PHD. There were only two things that worried me. The first was reliability. Every PHD brand had reviews stating that the device was a lemon because something - either the PCB or HD - kept breaking. There were some reviews stating the customer went through 3 or 4 devices before giving up. That's a lot of bad luck or bad workmanship. The second was the case. Several reviews claimed the case was cheap, broke easily and scratched badly. In the end the price and size sold me.
I have owned it for about 6 months and have not had a single problem with the device. Every computer (XP/Vista) that I hook it up to detects it just fine. I have not had any power problems, crashes or slowdowns.
The case on the other hand is a valid complaint. It looks great out of the box, but after just a few days of light use, the case showed every little scratch from dust, etc. I would have liked a case similar to Iomega's offering. I don't really care how it looks in the end, I am much more concerned about how reliable it is.
The last thing you should note, it comes formatted as a FAT drive not NTFS. I would strongly suggest, unless backward compatibility with Win98 or earlier is a concern, format it with NTFS before you use it!
Ohh and Amazon, as usual, had the best price, delivered it fast, and I had no problems with them. Enjoy! (go ahead push the button and order it, you won't regret it.)