WD Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160 GB

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
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of WD Passport Portable WDXMSA1600 160 GB

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250

Advantages: Lots of space, cheap, reliable
Disadvantages: Can't hoenstly think of any

If we look at the name of this device, 'Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250 GB', we can infer a great deal of information. 'Western Digital' is the manufacturer, 'Caviar' is the produce line, 'SE16' tells us that this is a special edition device with a 16Mb (1Mb = 1024Kb, 1Kb = 1024b) cache, 'WD2500KS' is the model number and 250Gb is the device size in raw data format. Western Digital are a good company and in fact I buy all of my hard drives from them because they have never failed on me. The Caviar device line has been in operation for about six years and has included IDE devices as well as the newer SATA and SATAII devices. The special edition bit of that means effectively nothing, it is simply a marketing thing, but the 16Mb cache is very important. Normally hard drives have an 8Mb cache and used to have a 2Mb cache ...

Jon_Farrimond 09.06.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of WD Caviar Blue WD2500KS 250 GB

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80 GB

Advantages: Reliable, cheap
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

for there are settings on the back that allow the device to slow down to SATAI speeds. So if your using a SATA system and your thinking maybe you will upgrade to SATAII in the future this would work for you. Western digital are great company, I always buy my hard drives from them because I have never had one fail on me. This particular device is an 80Gb derivative and will contain a maximum of 74Gb of data when formatted using NTFS. When a drive is made it is not formatted. The idea of formatting is to allow your computer to know where it has stored its data on the device. As such a large table is made which compares the location on the hard drive to the data stored there this takes up about 8% of your overall space. NTFS is just a file system standard and doesn't need to mean much to most people. I have shown the sequential read ...

Jon_Farrimond 09.06.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of WD Caviar Blue WD800JD 80 GB