Advantages: Around 160mb/s transfer speeds when using USB 3.0
Disadvantages: No ventilation fan, no option to use vertically

Super fast, super sized and very quiet... What more could you ask for in an external hard drive? USB 3.0? Check! I brought this hard drive from a shop on ebay for about £70 which I felt wasn't too bad for such a large hard drive and more so one with US ... Read review

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Sounds pretty ok, although the way your previous external drive fried itself sounds scary. by pgn0

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Advantages: not too big, includes power supply
Disadvantages: usb cable could be longer

When I bought this Product Around June 2011 I had been using a laptop hard drive inside a cheap caddy which decided to stop working so I thought I would look on the internet to see how much a proper external hard drive would be, I wanted an external ... Read review

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added 2 cot. lovely formatted review. by newprideexperiadj2

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Advantages: Seems reliable so far, good performance, average price.
Disadvantages: Noisy

I bought this hard drive only for about £40 two years ago. I did this as I had the 40GB Playstation 3 which I quickly used up the hard drive space of mainly from all of the demos I liked to have on the system. I soon found that 40GB wasn't enough for me a ... Read review

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This is really helpful for me because I have a 40GB hard drive. What do you think the noise is due to? Maybe I'll wait until PS4 comes out. Not sure. by mc_uk100

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Advantages: faster than HDD, can take more shocks than HDD and is definitely the future
Disadvantages: can be a bit on the costly side... but if it's speed you want then cost shouldn't matter

Have you ever had one of those days when everything just goes completely wrong for you? Yes. Me too. Many of those days in fact, with one of those really annoying days being when one of my hard drives on a laptop I was using suddenly went into melt ... Read review

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well written by danielclark691

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Advantages: So fast, no noise, very little heat, great performance
Disadvantages: Requires an adapter to install into desktops as it is 2.5" instead of 3.5", low capacity

I decided to by a solid state drive to improve the speed of my computer. I had already done the standard upgrades such as RAM and graphics card but sometimes the computer could still lag behind. If I were to just replace my hard drive with a solid state, ... Read review

Advantages: Great Design, lightweight
Disadvantages: No on/off switch

...this was taken from the Seagate website. Technical Details for Seagate External ... Read review

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Well done on reviewing this product i'd find difficulty knowing how to start writing about :~) e from me xXx by Deesrev

I've got the 500GB, 2.5", USB 3.0 version of this and many of your thoughts apply to that too! by NotMyToothbrush

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Excellent, robust, neat looking and all round great value.
by missgroovychick

This Seagate Conflicts with Other Peripherals (Seagate 1TB Drive)
by vialdana

Large capacity, cheap, but flawed
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Advantages: Looks Good, Reliable, Quiet
Disadvantages: Newer Better Versions Out

Seagate Expansion 500gb External Desktop Drive About 44 years ago, NASA managed to launch a man into space and land him on the moon, get him to walk around and bit and make world history, and all of that was done on a computer with ‘apparently’ the ... Read review

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Exceptionally reviewed. by anonymili

I have one of these too - mine is often covered in dust as well these days. by mi_wa

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seagate 500 GB "portable" drive
by misteekable

Seagate's Shiny Storage Solution
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Advantages: Huge 1TB extra Storage
Disadvantages: Mains Only Power Supply

...2012 when I received this Western Digital 1TB Desktop Hard Drive as a gift having mentioned to my brother how handy one would have been after my laptop crashed not long before last Christmas with the loss of a lot of ... Read review

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Full of useful info, well done. by hopey123

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Back it up!
by dbuk2000

Best in the West! - Western Digital 1TB
by McBeer

Western Digital Elements 1TB: Great Hard Drive For Minimal Price!
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Advantages: Cheap, high storage, quick transfer time.
Disadvantages: Flimsy

I was bought this by my sister has a much needed christmas present, in the last two years i have gone through two external hard drives, some say i should look after them better? However i disagree and argue they should be built with a titanium case. I w ... Read review

Advantages: great space, looks good, reliable
Disadvantages: -

I have been needing an external hard drive for ages now, the amount of music I have on my laptop as well as things for work that if my computer broke I'd lose in an instant. This Christmas I asked for one as it was about time I got a good sized one to hol ... Read review

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LOL, I can remember when 1 gig seemed like a huge amount! I can't get my head around terabytes. by Kukana

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Advantages: 500 GB available when it connects
Disadvantages: Poor quality mini-USB connection

...with Win 7. BUT the Iomega drive has started to disconnect between data transfers. T ... Read review

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Like a chocolate you bite into and don't like... you spit it out!
by iangough7

The connection USB plug into the disk breaks and the guarantee does no
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Advantages: Value for money, large space
Disadvantages: External power supply, tacky case

...which is surprising as the Western Digital elements 1TB hard drive is one of the most popular out there, and currently the highest selling external hard drive on Amazon. In terms of hard dr ... Read review

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Sounds like a useful bit of kit. Wait until solid-state 'drives' come down in price, no noise at all from the storage system then... by pgn0

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Extra Storage at a Bargain Price
by MrGump

Best in the West! - Western Digital 1TB
by McBeer

Western Digital Elements 1TB: Great Hard Drive For Minimal Price!
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Advantages: good size, nice speeds, reliable, pretty quiet and a nice price
Disadvantages: not for those that need lots of room as 160GB will not be enough

During my time I come across many laptop and desk top computers. Most of the times these computers are repairable, be it a dislodged circuit or connecter, maybe even a ‘dodgy; program that has installed more than that free photo editing software that you ... Read review

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Impressive! by Warpspeed

Good value and great review. by catsholiday

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Advantages: Quick, reasonably priced, reliable, huge amount of storage
Disadvantages: None

~ Why you need an external hard drive ~ I have heard many horror stories over the years of people having lost all of their digital photographs due to computers/ cameras breaking, being stolen etc. Since my relationship with digital photography began in ... Read review

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I'm old enough to remember when 1 gig was a huge amount of space. I still find terabytes kind of bewildering! by Kukana

I like your breakdown for how much 2tb is by dbuk2000

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Advantages: Inexpensive disk drive
Disadvantages: not especially fast - SATA internals won't suit older machines.

The WD Elements Desktop WDBAAU0020HBK 2 TB is a ‘bog standard’ 3.5” SATA/USB external disk drive with a ‘plugtop’ power supply and USB cable. Most people buying this device would presumably want to use it as an external storage device, reputable manufact ... Read review

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Thanks for the info bro.. by archiesam

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Store your stuff in the western way
by blissman70

A lot of space for fair price.
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