Western Digital My Passport Essential 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive

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Western Digital My Passport Essential - Midnight black

Gone are the days when files, Personal Computers, laptops were used to store all your required information, folders, documentations, presentations, music, videos, photos etc. The use of all these junk products as a storage devices have now been revolutionized by the use of portable hard drives, which has now become the most easy to use gadget that can be effectively brought into play and also fits smoothly into your pockets. On a larger market competition for such products, Western Digital has launched its new portable Hard Drive – “Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive”.

Western Digital My Passport Essential - Pocket drive

The look and feel of this portable hard drive is eye catchy. This stylish drive is light in weight and hence easy to carry. The size of this drives measures to 5″ * 3.1″ * .6″ by Length, Width and Height respectively. The end user has got an opportunity to express his own style by choosing the color of choice. The 320 GB drive comes in 9 attractive colors. Also, a minimum of 6 colors are available on other products of Western Digital that vary based on the storage capacity.

Major Advantages:

The Serial Bus Transfer rates of this Western Digital My Passport Portable Hard drive WDME3200TN is something amazing. One cannot believe that a transfer of about 480 MB of data can happen in just a second. On the installation side, this can just be used as a plug and play device. No effort is required to do a install/setup. Another major advantage on this product is that, this can be used as an USB drive. A USB 2.0 Cable comes along with the package and helps you connect your PC through a USB drive slot. Hence there is no room for a requirement of separate electric power supply. Also, the cable supplied in the package is a standard mini-USB which is of a common type and is benchmark for its flexibility, portability and high user friendly. This USB 2.0 Portable Hard drive product comes by default in FAT32 format which is an added advantage since many of the Operating Systems can read/write.

Disadvantages:

- Though the shiny colors and smooth finish attracts one, yet it this product is easy to get scratched. There is also no case included in the package for this gadget.
- A shock to all iMac funplays is that not all of the USB outlets in Mac laptops have sufficient power to drive this external drive. So to be on a very safer side, its highly advisable to check if your iMac is compatible to drive this portable Hard disk.
- PC/Laptops that are three years old or even older than that may not have USB 2.0 ports. Hence this would again be a trouble in compatibility issues when trying to connect external hard disk.
- On a few occasions, the device fails to open or work, indicating for a very low power for it to be driven and hence would require an alternate cable to supply power from an external source.

Other features:

This portable drive can withstand temperatures in the range of 5 – 40 degree Celsius when it is in operation of transferring files/folders. During a steady ideal state (non-operating) state this can withstand a range of -20 to 65 degree Celsius . This product comes in 4 different models depending on the storage capacity, viz., 250GB, 320GB, 400GB and 500GB. The most effective and a moderate product would be a 320 GB which costs you 128 USD but at AMAZON you get this product for just 90 USD saving up to 30% of your expenses. Also, depending on the color of the product you chose on a particular model, the price also varies.

Buy Western Digital My Passport Essential 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive WDME3200TN (Midnight Black) – $93

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