Western Digital 320 GB Passport 2.5" USB 2.0 Hard Drive
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Customer Review: A cool travel HDD
Summary: 5 Stars
It is really a cool external hard-disk. Forget carrying all the power cables for the external HDD when you go out. It is really compact and just works when you connect this to the USB. The performance is excellent even though it is 5400 RPM. I see things getting copied quickly.
Thumb rule, if you got to travel a lot with your personal or whatever data required, this would be a best bet. If you are going to keep it in your house forever, then you can think of buying other external HDD as you can buy more storage for the same price that you are paying for this.
It is simple, nice and very very easy to carry. It very well fits in your packet.
NOTE: Before the first use, make you sure, you are FORMATTING to NTFS to hold a tons of folders and huge files. The default that it comes in is as FAT.
Customer Review: Form follows function?
Summary: 4 Stars
I've got this little gadget about a week ago and am happy with the functionality. I was surprised to find out, that in contrary to the Toshiba HDDR250E02X (250 GB) the WD works on my USB 1.1 Port of my old Thinkpad without any trouble (besides the low transfer speed of cause ;-)). The WD works fine, is recognized immediately by the OP and it is fast.
Besides I am a lttle bit disappointed about a cosmetic aspect. The HDD sits in a neat plastic enclosure with 4 rubber pads (1 at each corner). After the first usage I figured out, that the HDD is rocking on my desktop, caused by the fact, that the housing has slightly twisted (because of the heating up?). Since then my WD does not sit firmly on any flat surface anymore which of course does not have any influence on its functionality but decreases the overall impression.
Customer Review: Great portable backup option
Summary: 5 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised by this drive.
First impression: Man, this thing is small. It's about the size of a large deck of cards or an original ipod.
Also, it runs exclusively off USB, so no AC adapter. Some older laptops can't power it but first try the included (short) USB cable and if it still doesn't get enough power, buy a Y USB cable that runs off two USB ports.
While not the faster HD at 5400RPM and 12ms seek time. It will only be used for storage and not much for read/write during application use.
If any of you need a small form factor external HD, you might want to check these passport drives out. I've always been a bigger Seagate fan for my desktops, but the offerings from Seagate and Maxtor in this category didn't really compete for me.
Customer Review: Not practical, needs more USB power to work
Summary: 3 Stars
Good points:
1. very nice looking, light weight, good size, well designed.
2. recognized easily by My PC's, desk and laptop, for a first few times as soon as it was plugged in.
3. data transfer is fast.
Not so good points:
1. It stopped being recognized by my PC's after a few days.
2. The reason may be, as many reviews have said: insufficient USB power. You need to have a Y cable, that you have to buy and carry around to feed it. It is the only reason I returned it.
3. there might be some other reasons too.
My wish: It would be an ideal item if
1.More USB power without the need of a Y cable, or
2. at least provided a free cable to compensate for the inconvenience.
Customer Review: Very disappointed, it lacks a power cable it needs
Summary: 2 Stars
Needed more disk space so I decided to shell out two hundred dollars for the drive. On the box it said no power cable necessary on most systems and I have never used a power cable on my laptops with Seagate and LaCie portables. So let's see... On one laptop it didn't work at all saying it needs more power. On my powerful laptop it worked, but died while coping files... (more power needed) great now I'll have a corrupted filesystem. Thanks alot.
Of course you'd think that for two hundred dollars you'd get a power cable (as Seagate and LaCie and others provide free). Wrong. You'll need to order it from their website for a nifty 18 dollars and wait a week to get it. Need it sooner? Sure for an extra 15 dollars they'll expedite it.