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500 GB Portable Hard Drive

500 GB Portable Hard Drive

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Brand: Western Digital

List Price: $139.99
Buy New: $109.95
as of 9/4/2010 09:10 MDT details
You Save: $30.04 (21%)



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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 1179 reviews

Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Color: Midnight Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Hard Drive Size: 500
Size: 500 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.1 x 0.6
Warranty: 3 years warranty

MPN: WDME5000TN
Model: WDME5000TN
UPC: 890552607884
EAN: 0718037735092
ASIN: B001F9LY14

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Box Contents - My Passport Essential 500GB Portable USB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install guide
  • 500GB Hard Drive Capacity
  • Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install.
  • Powered by the USB bus. No separate power supply is needed
  • This ultra-portable drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and holds tons of valuable data

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Product Description
Western Digital Passport Essential 500GB Portable USB Drive-Black


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1 out of 5 stars DO NOT PURCHAS A WD My Passport   August 29, 2010
Kaginsmom
After purchasing a WD My Passport I proceeded to back up my computer and several pin drives to this hard drive. When I went back to access the files from this hard drive I found ALL of my files from my pin drives were gone. When I called Western Digitals customer service I was not listened to. The first time I called, they ran me through the routine and rushed me off the phone. When that didn't work, they insisted I had never put any other files on this hard drive. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how and what happened. Do not waste your time or money buy a better product as I since have.


4 out of 5 stars Solid performance so far   August 5, 2010
Bo
I am satisfied with the drive as far as I use it, which is as an alternative short -term backup that keeps data off the computer but still accessible (I keep no personal data on the hard drives and offload any new data at the end of the day when I "clean" my PC).

It is a great size and easily portable - however I strongly recommend buying a hard case to transport it in your computer bag. I bought a Case Logic Compact Portable Hard Drive Case which fits it very well (the case is fatter than the drive, but I keep other items in it as well).

It is very quiet. I have no problems with connecting it to different machines; it shows up immediately as a device and runs flawlessly. Data transfer rates are OK for me (I am not as demanding as some as I transfer mostly documents).

I have heard that the larger capacity WD drives (over 250GB) of this type have problems. I cannot comment on that. However, this one has worked well at a reasonable cost.



2 out of 5 stars I am on my fifth drive now   July 26, 2010
kmir (Nashville, TN US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought this 1.5 years ago. After about 9 months, this first drive clicked. After another episode of clicking, I decided to exchange, to be on the safe side. RMA and customer service then seemed to be in the US. The second drive started clicking after about 2 months. I decided to just back up to an old, clunky external and live with the clicking. Then, it started to disconnect on its own every now and then, only to reconnect about a minute later. That became a nuisance, so I started the exchange process again; customer service now seems to be in India. The third drive only let me copy about 1/2 of my data (ca. 50 GB) onto it, then started clicking and complaining. The fourth drive let me save about 5 GB onto it, then disconnected completely and never connected again. They are now sending me a fifth drive. I am definitely buying from someone other than WD next time!
Hope that solid state will soon be affordable...



5 out of 5 stars Great Hard Drive at a Great Price   July 23, 2010
Jesse
It has worked well for me for almost 18 months. I highly recommend it


1 out of 5 stars Really Horrid Drive   July 16, 2010
Nick
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

For Mac users at least, this is an absolutely demonic drive. (Mine has 1Tb capacity but the problematic software is virtually the same.) The problems lie mostly in the software, not the drive itself. Why is it necessary to install proprietary driver software to use this drive when most drives simply use the built-in drivers in the Mac OS? And why does so much drive space have to be wasted on a separate virtual (virtually, stupidly wasteful) partition that cannot be erased? The HD Smartware drivers for Mac have absolutely gummed up my new MacBook Pro running 10.6.4. The smartware demons running in the background (even when the drive is not plugged in!) eat up tons of memory, plus hog as much as 98% of the CPU, making other programs like Safari stand stock-still for minutes at a time. Force-quitting the demons using Activity Monitor doesn't help, because they simply re-start and, while they're running, slows every other process down to a crawl or not working at all. Plus, I'd mention that the proprietary mini-USB cable failed after just two months and was hard to replace. Overall, this is one of the worst pocket drives I've ever owned. Oh, did I mention it was very, very expensive compared to the competition? Why pay less when you can get ten times the aggravation?

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