HP Pocket Media Drive 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black/Silver)
by Western Digital
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Manufacturer: Western DigitalAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Model: HPBAAA5000ASL-NHSN
Color: Black / Sil
Product features:
- Slides into a bay on select HP computers for instant additional storage
- Can also be used as an external drive with any computer
- Premium HP quality and reliability
- SureStore backup software included for easy hands-free backup
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Customer Review: A little more information not provided by Amazon
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this drive today (Nov. 10, 2009). It is a 5400 RPM drive and uses .6 amps operating and 1 amp on spin-up. Apple's disk utility calls it a "WDC WD50 00BEVT-22ZAT0 Media", which is no doubt manufactured by Western Digital. However, a search of WD's website returned zilch so I assume it's strictly an OEM product for HP. It comes with a case and a USB cable. The cable has one connector for the drive and two (2) connectors for the computer. Again I assume this is for extra power on computers that limit USB power but on my MacBook Pro it runs fine with only one connection. It comes formatted for Windows, but of course no problem formatting it for a Mac. I ran a benchmark on it and got the following maximum results:
Random write - 27.40 MB/s @ 512KB block size
Random read - 33.11 MB/s @ 16MB block size
Sustained write - 27.04 MB/s @ 512 KB block size
Sustained read - 34.79 MB/s @ 16 MB block size
This is not too shabby considering it's 5400 RPM on a USB 2.0 connection. And as the previous reviewer pointed out, it is bus powered, so no power blocks/cords. It also comes with Windows backup software, but since I don't use Windows anymore except occasionally in a virtual machine, I can't comment on it. So far, I'm well satisfied with the drive and would recommend it. 5 stars.
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