My Passport Essential WDME5000 500 GB

Western Digital My book 500GB hard drive

Advantages: small, lots of storage and really reliable
Disadvantages: less portable than a small form hard disk drive, needs main to use

This is my second hard drive. The first one I bought was a sony vaio that I bought off of ebay - a portable 120GB hard disk drive from the far east. It started giving me disk read and write errors about three to four months after I bought it. Moral of the story, buy from a reputable manufacturer and seller. So I bought this from Amazon co uk, who are by far a superior online seller. Prices have come down and i managed to get this for £60 including free delivery. The drive is compact, not portable. It needs to be plugged into mains as well as the computer which makes it less portable, but it is so quiet I can't even hear that is switched on even when it is writing or reading. I would highly recommend this product or even one of the bigger sized ones, though I couldn't afford the 1TB mybook. Remember 500GB is marketing ...

jupiter28 20.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of My Book Essential Edition 2.0 WDH1U5000 500 GB

MyBook 500gb - Very Good but One Slight Niggle

Advantages: Fast, Easy to Install, Quite cheap.
Disadvantages: Slightly Noisy

I received this hard drive for Christmas last year and I've been using it as a time machine for my MacBook. It sits in my bookshelf about 45cm away from my laptop, and in my opinion it looks quite nice between hardback books. When I plug it in there is no waiting for it to 'warm up' like there was with my old external hard drive. 500gb is enough for backing up my whole laptop, and for Mac users it is great for Time Machine, because there is easily enough space for backing up everything you delete. It was very easy to set up, I just literally plugged it into my Mac and it asked me if I wanted to use it for Time Machine, and it immediately started backing up. For Windows users it is just as easy, you just plug it in and it recognises it, no drivers needed. The only problem I have with it is that when it backs up, especially when ...

Stuey-Poo 07.04.2009 · Read full review
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Portable, durable and affordable disk space: WD 160GB Passport

Advantages: reliable, small & light, slim and sleek design
Disadvantages: bundled sync software which is difficult to navigate

amount of important files. Needless to say, I don't think that will be a problem with the WD Passport Portable. The only thing potential buyers need to think about when considering this device is how much space they need for their files. 160 GB is one of the smallest sizes I could find for external hard drives, but it is about the same size as my laptop's internal hard drive - in other words, it stores a lot of data! If, therefore, you are looking for something just to back up a few photos, or a couple of word documents, it would probably be a better idea to do so by CD or USB stick. But it's a definite for people who want to transfer and back up there many files easily, securely and promptly, without having the downside of dragging a huge bulky hard drive around when you want to take your files with you elsewhere. ...

starshinejuice 25.09.2009 · Read full review
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