Advantages: quick, very large, efficient internal hard drive Disadvantages: opening up the pc tower - urgh!
I really do love Western Digital hard drives as they deliver great performance and storage at very reasonable prices. This is no exception.
This is a very cool and compact metal-cased storage device that works as well as you would expect from Western Digital, which means phenomenal performance at a great price.
Design
Its presented in a big box, and I was very relieved (and also surprised) to see how small it actually is! At 8cm in width, by 1.5 ... ...take up much space in your pc tower. Its a miniscule 105 gs which means i can hold it in one palm quite easily. The stainless steel enclosure case is attractive and i hardly notice the sounds it makes when transferring files, thats how quiet this metal box is!
Instructions
Opening up and setting the hard drive in was the biggest time-consumer but it can be done within 20 minutes and then its a simple case of the software being recognised and it ...
thewhitewolf 18.11.2007
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