Western Digital WDXMS1200TN Passport 120 GB USB 2.0 2.5-Inch Portable Hard Drive
Pack up your office files and take them home. Carry thousands of songs or pictures. This hard drive is simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter. It is 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. Sharing large files between office and home, between Mac and PC Backing up your existing notebook hard drive for extra data safety System Requirements - Windows 2000, XP, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher, available USB port Dimensions (LengthxWidthxHeight) - 5.110 x 3.14 x 0.590 Inches / Weight - 0.23 Pounds
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Western Digital WDXMS1200TN Passport 120 GB USB 2.0 2.5-Inch Portable Hard Drive Reviews
they could however do a redesign to make the cable somehow a solid part of the drive, with the option of still being able to use another cable, i dunno, something like that might be nice. seems to be working out well, no complaints, i like that it does not need to have a seperate power source. Overall, a good solid drive.
Honestly, about my only real complaint with this drive would be the case material. I used it on Windows, OS X, and Linux systems without a hitch. I was in a rush to class and grabbed my laptop without realizing the drive was still connected. Knowing I'd killed the drive, I picked it up and brought it with me to run a few tests. Simply trying to wipe it off tends to put very small scratches in the finish.
A wonderful (accidental) test of it's durability was a few months ago. It's been running fine since. No funny noises, no read errors, no bad sectors. Not much to report after owning this drive for a bit over a year. Not a single problem out of it.
While the glossy black looks very nice, it gets fingerprints on it and scratches very easily. Before the computer could suspend (IE the drive was still spinning) I lifted the laptop up, swinging the drive by the cable across my desk and into my rather hard plastic chair.
Outside the warranty Western Digital require $14/- for technical support per incident, but no assurance of recovering the data. Western Digital WDXMS1200TN Passport 120 GB USB 2.0 2.5-Inch Portable Hard Drive. I lost my entire backup data. The product came with a limited 4 months warranty. We had this product for 6 months and it suddenly stopped working with no warning. So baisically we have to discard this.
I bought this last September for $91.34 with shipping, and its been a life saver ever since, the only thing you have to be careful with is that when you go to plug it use the Motherboards USB slots (The ones in the back plate), don't use the front ports on your case because the front ports don't give enough power to the HD and can kill it in the long run. All laptop ports are good though.
I bought a Cavalry 120 GB drive in 2006 for $71 and still working. I have 2 other external hard drives and will stick with those until they fail. Western Digital lasted a year. So I am chucking the drive and instead spent $59 for a year of Carbonite. I bought a Simpletech here in Amazon in 2005, 120 GB, and it's still working. I paid $87 for this 120 GB drive and that is down the drain.
It's WHEN they fail. It's not if they fail. Simpletech gets my vote.
Then Windows Explorer stopped recognizing it. This cute little hard drive worked for about a year. I did all the troubleshooting myself and with Western Digital tech support.
They suggested that I buy a $20 power cord. My experience is the reason that everyone should have multiple external hard drives. Will not buy another Western Digital hard drive.
Won't buy another drive (other than a flash drive) that doesn't use AC. I said I have no faith that all of a sudden the drive wasn't being powered properly.
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