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Traditional Western Electronic My Personal Passport Critical Hardware Additional Hard Drive
Here we take a look at the Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive which is an external 2.5" unit, model number WDME3200TE. This is the rather subtle Midnight Black edition but if you're a little more adventurous they come in several colours including Red, White, Pink and a rather striking Intense Blue. The WD Passport range also ships in other capacities including 160GB, 250GB and a huge 500GB version. They will soon even be releasing a 1TB drive in the Passport Essential product line. I would recommend getting the biggest size you can afford as it will cost you a lot more in the future if you run out of room and need another drive instead of wishing you'd bought a slightly bigger capacity. You can often find that the largest size demands a premium, but there's often not a lot between the remaining sized drives.
LooksThe passport essential contains a sleek and glossy casing which could unfortunately scratch easily and also attract dust plus the dreaded fingerprints. Understandably the Western Digital portable drive looks great. You can always invest in a separate case to incorporate further protection in your drive, particularly if you work toward taking it out resulting in to you.
Being used
Setup with the WD My Passport Essential 320GB USB drive really is easy, just plug it in, start your personal computer and you are ready to go. There are a few useful utilities factory installed on hard disk however they are not necessary in order for you to use the drive.
The utilities that Western Digital include together with the passport essential consist of backup software, synchronisation software and encryption software that keeps crucial computer data secure in the case it falls into the wrong hands.
The my passport essential 320GB USB drive's transfer speeds are competitive for a 2.5 inch portable hard drive but they are certainly slower than mains powered MyBook Essential drives in the Western Digital range of products. The passport uses the USB 2 interface in final summary is comparable in terms of transfer speeds to its 2.5" external drive competition. The fresh USB3 interface isn't supported for this model.
Reliability
WD have a very good reputation for reliability and although all harddrives can go wrong will not receive a more reliable external hard disk. The warranty is 24 months this is a little mean but it is not the one year many manufacturers provide right now. In spite of this it is best to make sure you employ a second copy of the data you store over a hard disk.
Positive
Numerous size options to suit your requirements
USB powered requires no external power adaptor
Small unit easily suits a shirt pocket
Appropriate for Windows and Mac systems
Software offered with package
Turns on and off with your laptop
Simple setup
Negative
Slower transfer speeds in comparison to 3.5 inch external drives
Glossy casing attracts fingerprints, scratches and dust
No firewire, eSATA or USB 3.0 support.
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