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| Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Midnight Black) | 
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| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $159.99
Buy New: $109.98
You Save: $50.01 (31%)
New (40) Used (3) from $109.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  214 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Color: Midnight Black
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
System Memory: 2
Hard Drive Size: 320
Clothing Size: 320 GB
Size: 320GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.1 x 0.6
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDME3200TN
Model: WDME3200TN
UPC: 718037729374
EAN: 0718037729374
ASIN: B0012GQZZU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 A very portable hard disk August 31, 2008
This was my fifth Western digital passport hard disk I have bought from AMAZON. All of them are still working. I connect them to my Dell Inspiron 9400(that has 6 USB ports). When I bought the first one I was very doubtful if they could work connected to a laptop but, they work even when I have connected up to 4 to this laptop. They also work in all other laptops that I have connected to (even in the tiny SONY VAIO UX380FN. This 320 GB works also equally well.
I should also mention that I had previously bought 3 Western Digital "MY BOOK" USB hard-disks. They are still working fine since the first day, but I hate their cumbersome power supply that makes them not very portable.
I had previously bought another brand USB hard-disk, also from AMAZON. It never worked very well. Finally it refused to be recognized by the system so, I finally opened the box and mounted the disk as internal in a desktop to recover the hidden data inside: the hard-disk was OK, so success for my data.
USB hard-disks, specially the passport cannot be dismounted by windows like the USB pen drives. I consulted to Western Digital. They informed me that this was a problem with all USB hard-disks, because windows recognized them as disks, not as flash drives or memory cards. I found a trick to allow dismount them without a shut down. I bought and installed `cryptic disk'. This program requires you to mount and dismount the hard disk, apart from protect your data to be peeked by other eyes in case your disks go to other hands.
works great August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great size physically and does what you need it to. You do lose about 16GB so it's not really 250, but I guess that's the way it goes with these. Others I know had issues with the FAT32 format, but it's easy to reformat as NTFS.
Love it so far! August 30, 2008
So far, I'm very happy with this drive--it's been really fast and extremely handy. I love the fact that it is USB-powered, and I can transport my entire hard drive from home no matter where I go.
I did have an older WD drive (I think it was only 80GB) that just stopped working on me after about 3 years, so I am going to be careful and not consider this drive a "permanent" backup. I would still keep a separate backup of important/permanent files. However, for day-to-day access to all of my documents, this is just great--one of my favorite things.
It is also a perfect gift for a new parent--all the pictures and video of baby really fill up a hard drive quickly!
 compact design makes it worth the purchase August 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really like the stylistic aspects of this hard drive. It is small enough to take anywhere you want to take it. The drive itself is very easy to use. It does have a significant weakness and that is the fact that it solely depends on the usb port for its power source. My laptop could not actually handle the power that the passport hard drive required and I kept getting an error message about a power surge. I fixed that problem by buying a powered usb hub to plug into my computer and then connected the portable hard drive to my laptop that way. That is my one complaint about the portable hard drive, but it was a simple fix that added about $25 dollars to what I spent on the hard drive itself.
 WD Passport August 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
So far everything is working fine. I had some problem with one of my USB ports, but I believe the computer should be blammed.
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