Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Midnight Black)
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Product Description
Pack up your office files and take them home. Carry thousands of songs or pictures. Synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security with the Western Digital WDME3200TN.re simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter - they are powered directly through the USB cable.
Customer Reviews
Great little Drive
If you are looking at this drive, look at all the good ratings and ignore the whiners that either don't know how to use the drive, or are expecting more than it was designed for. It's Small, it's compact, doesn't need a power cord and works with most computers equipped with a USB port. What more can you ask? My thinking is that if you buy this drive and are going to throw it around and mistreat it, or you want the speed of a an internal drive, than you aren't going to be happy. For anyone else looking for a nice USB drive, this one works great. I have to wonder if the people that whined about it being slow were plugged into a USB 1.0 or USB 1.0 Hub.
Convenient and ecofriendly
I wasn't really looking for such a nice looking drive to stuff in my pocket. I wanted a fast energy efficient and durable drive on which to backup an iMac. That means 480Mb/s using USB2 because my iMac has no eSATA, FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b), nor even Gigabit Ethernet port. I don't care to install a PCI card with such.
I looked at rugged drives and green drives that are faster, but I'm limited to 480 Mb/s (60MB/s) anyway. This is hot swappable and uses less than the 2.5W available via my USB 2.0 port (500mA at 5W).
This drive is very quiet (quieter than my iMac). The 1 ft cord provided is too short to seriously tangle. A finger on the drive can sense vibration, but it doesn't vibrate any table I've used.
My last backup external drive was accidentally pulled off a counter by the data cord. Now that I realize how absent minded I can be, the ease of putting this drive in a safe place is not merely a travel feature.
