Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive
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Customer Review: Cheap, effective and portable
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first external hard drive that i ordered but it has preformed flawlessly. I mostly use it for carrying music to work and moving my office files from one computer to another as needed. Its only a tiny bit larger than my wallet so i can shove it in my pocket and carry it around without feeling it.
The product works prefectly with my office computer. It operates the same way that a flash drive does, just plug it in and go. The only thing i would recommand is getting a longer USB cable because the included one is about two feet long.
Transporting files is quick with it. About a minute per gigabyte so it can be filed up nicely over the course of a lunch break.
Customer Review: great product, great buy
Summary: 5 Stars
The best! I have been using add-on portable hard drives since back when they were on 10GB, huge and heavy. The WD 160GB is almost everything I have always wanted and not yet found before -- they have huge 160B storage and are incredibly small -- three or four of them could fit in the space that other small drives claim. I suppose the only tradeoff is that for this size and with USB self power, you can't yet get a 9600 drive this big (160GB) and a space so small, but the WD160 drives are as fast as my internal drives and they look fantastic. I am now own 4 of these and now I can bring huge video libraries with me all in less than the space of a paperback book.Customer Review: Quiet, fast and beautifull...
Summary: 5 Stars
Awesome hard drive. The finishing reminds the samsumg lcd televisions. Beautifull brilliant black with rounded corners.
Very quiet. You can't hear any noise even when accessing large amount of data from or to it.
Data is written and read very fast... faster then my buit-in 40GB laptop hd.
I just had a problem with my laptop, which does not give enough power from one USB port. So I had to buy another USB cable with two inputs, since the hard drive comes with a single input cable.
But this is my laptop problem, with my desktop I didn't have any power issue, using the cable originally sold with the HD.
Customer Review: Convenient portable small hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I have several of the original passports in 60 and 80 gb and have never had a problem with them. I bought one of these 160 gb ones for my husband and it was smaller and nicer than the earlier ones I had, so I had to buy another one for me! We both carry ours back and forth to work and use them daily and never had a problem. I never had a problem with the older ones that I have had for a couple of years. We use them on our desktop computer, laptops, and our work desktops. We don't use any Apple products so maybe the mention in the other review is the reason others have had problems. I love ours. Simple to use, small, reliable.Customer Review: Works great with MacBook
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this to use as a temporary place to store my wife's data when her hard drive went bad and for her to use to backup her files. I was too late to save her data but the drive works great on my MacBook-no power problems that other Mac owners have mentioned (maybe the new Macs have more power through their USB ports). I had to reformat the drive with the disk utilities that comes with every new Mac and trash all the software that comes with the drive but I couldn't use that windows stuff anyway. We'll see if it works with her Mac when it comes back from the repair shop (its an older model). So far, it a great little drive.