Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive
Pack up your office files and take them home. Carry thousands of songs or pictures. These drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter - they are powered directly through the USB cable.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; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in. Powered by the USB bus, so no separate power supply 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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Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive Reviews
have been an excellent portable hard drive without any inconvenient until now.so I recomended 100% one of the creation more helpfully for me and my computer stuff.
Neither worked because they were made for USB ports that supply more power than my Gateway or my friend's Dell put forth. Other reviews I've read elsewhere indicate that after a short time the drive ceased to work for a few people, so read more reviews. If the WD Passport fails. Now it was clean and ready to be used as a big removable storage device which was what I wanted.
I had to invest $54 to solve the power problem but did so without dealing with WD. Then I used my my computer to reformat the whole drive in NTFS. well. I purchased a Belkin PCMCIA 2.0 2-port USB card, which created two additional USB slots on my computer that both worked even better than the original ones. WD sells some affordable accessories that are supposed to boost power in the unit, (for those laptops that need more USB power to make these work). This seems very clever indeed but not what I wanted. They are cleverly designed to mimick your own hard drive so when you travel you just unplug the drive and take it to any computer and that remote computer becomes, magically, your home computer.
The WD Passport works fine in there now and has for three days, and I can put my flash drive in the open USB slot next to it. even your wallpaper is duplicated. Western Digital, I discovered later, states that they don't work in "some" laptops. So I deleted the software I found on it as my first order of business that stopped it from automatically filling itself with the contents of my computer.
I wanted a simple mass storage device, like a flash stick only bigger. that aside for now. Let's consider the purpose of these drives and whether that purpose matches what you want it to do.
It came with a power cord so there is no power deficit issue. Okay. I purchased two of these at once; one as a gift. it will have worked for awhile and that's better than I had expected after I first got it home. I bought mine at Staples. Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management (and. I'm getting fast data transfers.
As of today I don't see this particular Belkin item on Amazon or I'd paste a link to it. and I purchased a Belkin card for my friend as well. Your email, your documents, everything appears on the remote computer as if you had brought your home computer with you. One of the suggested items they sell is a Y-connector so you can utilize the power from two USB ports at once. It comes with a driver to install first from a disc.
That's not exactly what these were designed for. do be sure to format the right drive not your C: drive). um. Oh.
Also, WD informed me by email I couldn't obtain the power boosters anywhere else except from them. The Belkin card was a good purchase nevertheless, I can imagine many uses for a more powerful and faster USB port, and the card doubled the number of USB ports I have. If you use this method, do please read the instructions and don't just plug in the card. This would seem to be a nuisance unplugging my USB mouse, and I had problems with WD delivering the items anyway (after ordering them twice). [.].
The WD Passport does what I wanted it to do now. This card pluged easily into my previously unused PCMCIA slot.
Product was great slim size, portable and works well. It was. delivered in a timely manner.
I transfered all my data and it lasted about two months before I noticed a performance issue (slow response). Attempted to transfer to a know good drive, but already lost a large portion of my data. Then files started to become corrupted.
This product is an outdated model. Incidentally I own one and it's a good product. Why in God's name would anyone pay it. Why in God's name is this still for sale at this price. It is MORE expensive than newer versions with double the capacityavailable on Amazon.
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