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| Western Digital My Passport Elite 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Bronze) | 
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| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $320.64
Buy New: $132.95
You Save: $187.69 (59%)
New (24) Used (1) from $132.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1253
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 2 x 7.5
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: WDMLZ3200TN
Model: WDMLZ3200TN
UPC: 718037731452
EAN: 0718037731452
ASIN: B0015YGNQU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Box Contents - My Passport Elite 320GB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 Cable, Drawstring Carrying Bag, Quick Install Guide, 5-Year Warranty | | • | 320GB Hard Drive | | • | USB 2.0 and 1.1 Interface | | • | Powered by the USB bus | | • | Up to 480Mb/sec Bus Transfer Rate with USB 2.0 |
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Product Description
A luxurious soft-touch finish makes these drives easy to grip, comfortable to hold, and beautiful to show off to your friends. Combine that with mega-capacity that fits in your pocket, plus four powerful features -- capacity gauge, automatic backup, sync and encryption, and remote access software -- and you'll understand why we call these little drives Elite. Capacity Gauge allows you to connect My Passport to your computer and see at a glance how much space is available on your drive. Save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your e-mail and contacts to your iPod, and back up all the precious files on your computer to your My Passport. Set it and forget it; every time you plug your My Passport into your computer your data is automatically backed up. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug My Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption. (Windows only) Connect My Passport to any PC and run MioNet Key software to remotely access files, music, and photos from any of your computers with MioNet software installed. This compact drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and with capacities up to 320 GB, you can take approximately 91,000 photos, 24 hours of videos, 80,000 songs, or tons files with you wherever you go. You can even plug My Passport into the USB port on your gaming console to play your music or view photo and video files on your TV. System Requirements - Available USB port, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.10+, 10.5.2+ Approximate Unit Dimensions - 0.59(H) x 4.967(L) x 3.13(W) Approximate Unit Weight - 0.231 pounds
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| Customer Reviews:
 No Complaints, 5 Stars! June 18, 2008
Bought on 6/17. Amazon was $199 on 6/16 so I bought at B-Buy for $159 on 6/17. Came home and it was $137 on Amazon. Oh well...
This exHD is awesome.
I love the bronze color and the size is perfect; literally the size of 2 passports stacked on top of each other. The white LEDs give it a professional look more than a neon geek color :-B Price per GB is spot on. I paid .50 cents per GB, but its obviously less now. Sure you can buy a plastic S*mpleTech for less per GB, but you can also get the exact same problems every negative review had about them. No problems here.
I followed another review of another Passport exHD and plugged it into my iMac (OSX 10.5.2 Intel 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo). Apple's Time Machine or something came on instantly and asked if I wanted to use it as a back-up. I closed it and went into the Disk Utility under Applications>Utilities. From there I made it a journaled disk from the drop down menu. From there it shows up initially labeled My Passport. I used the first menu to verify the exHD. After that, I went to erase as I did not want to ATTEMPT to foil with any proprietary software. I chose Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) and named it My Passport again (because I'm so proud of it). This deleted any software that *might have been on it. As soon as it was formatted I moved the files that were bogging down my poor iMac HD and then I opened Time Machine and used the Passport as my source for all my necessary files to be backed up. Works great.
5 Stars for
1. Price
2. Size
3. Style
4. Function
5. No Complaints
If I need more space, I'll be buying the exact same drive again. /Maybe in
titanium for organizational purposes/
Hope this was helpful for Mac community :)
Looks Great, Nice Features June 16, 2008
Very nice looking drive, has 4 nifty white LEDs that sequence back and forth, and feels good in your hand - not as slippery as the high gloss plastic versions. Appearances aside, it also has a sliding cover for the USB socket when the drive's not in use, which should come in handy for protecting against grit when it's stuffed in your purse/pocket/bag.
 Very small, very light, totally silent, reliable 320 gb May 3, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Smallest, lightest, virtually silent drive I've ever used. In comparson to a deck of cards, this drive is sightly longer, about the same width, somewhat heavier.
I lke it a lot, in fact I just bought a second one, and will be dumping 3 or 4 of my 100-200 gb annoyingly large, heavy, hot, and loud external drives.
This drive works great, BUT only after I connected it to my laptop using an externaly powered accessory USB hub. I strongly recommend this type of connection for external drives, USB/CD burners, etc. The power coming from one USP port of my IBM-T42 simply did not provide adequate power to the drive, and my laptop WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE the drive when I connected with the supplied cable. This is a common problem for external devices such as drives and burners. Many computers, especially laptops, have very limited power available from a single USB port.
I installed the included backup software but then disabled it. The backup software can be set to "syncronize" folders you pick so that two or more folders on different drives will have the same contents. This works but is not the type of back up strategy I use. I backup the whole drive, windows and all, to make disaster recovery a "one step" job.
I wanted to use the included encryption software but apparently this is a "pay-extra" software and I couldn't install it.
So I am now using an open source encryption tool called "true-crypt", which I highly recommend. Don't forget your password however, there is no "back door" once you've encrypted your data!
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