Wonderful drive with one big flaw
Let’s start with the only big flaw of this drive. The clear glass that allows you to see the drive. Great in theory, but not in practicality. To see the hard drive work you either need to mount it outside of the computer or to the glass [...]
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Does the job
This drive is exactly as advertised. It is a bare drive, no cables or mounting gear included (although you probably don’t need either). It does not include instructions either; so you should know what you are doing if you are buying this hardware. It is an excellent choice for an older computer.
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Western Digital Passport - A Great Value In Portable External HDs
The Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Midnight Black) is the largest capacity in the portable essentials line-up. This comes in a variety of colors including Pink, Real Red, Artic White and Intense Blue. They say that this [...]
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The Hard Drive Toaster
I have been buying Vantec external hard drive enclosures for several years nows, and they have allowed me to add terabytes of storage to my computers for video and audio files. When I saw this thing, I said to myself, Cool!
Vantec has designed the NST-D100SU in white plastic to make a [...]
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VERY GOOD DRIVES
THESE DRIVES ARE VERY GOOD ALL AROUND LOW COST PERFORMERS
THE 7200 RPM SPINDLE SPEED COUPLED WITH THE 8MB CACHE GIVE GOOD PERFORMANCE AND THESE DRIVES ARE PRETTY QUITE AS WELL THESE WOULD BE A GREAT CHOICE FOR A LOWCOST RAID SETUP IT’S HARD TO BEAT WESTERN DIGITAL DRIVES FOR THE MONEY
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What in the hell is wrong with Western Digital
If you are just looking to add an additional drive for storage, don’t buy this new version of My Book Essential. Especially if you plan to buy more than one (which you of course should unless it’s purely a backup drive). You will regret it unless you [...]
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WARNING - not what the description says!
The description for this product says “Full kit includes drive cables, installation and management software, and illustrated instructions”. All I got was an OEM drive… just the drive with no cable, rails, software, instructions or anything else. I don’t know if an underpaid stockboy just screwed up [...]
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