Western Digital 160 GB USB 2.0 Passport 2.5" External Hard Drive ( WDXMS1600TN )

Average customer rating: 3.5

I love this little disk drive
This is a good Hard-disk and it is useful
As good as they get
Power Hungry Device overloads USB ports
Answer to backkup prayers

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Western Digital 160 GB USB 2.0 Passport 2.5" External Hard Drive ( WDXMS1600TN )

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000J1HPXK

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Product Description

This sleek compact drive connects to your PC's USB port for quick and easy data transfers. The drive draws power from the USB port; you won't even need the power adapter. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you save your critical data, and take it with you. Plug your drive into any PC, edit files, read e-mail and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer.

Customer Reviews:

I love this little disk drive.......2007-06-12

It is very portable, reliable and easy to use (I did reformat it to NTPS). It has taken more than one fall to a hard floor and keeps on working. It runs fine off my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop and my wife's Dell Inspiron 8000. I intend to get another one. All ten thumbs up! :-)

This is a good Hard-disk and it is useful.......2007-06-11

If you are looking for a light and small, but which has big storage capacity, then you might want this one. This one would be best if you are going to have one which is able to be moved easily, I mean, it is light, so you can carry it wherever you want. So.. You might want to have this one if you have lots of stuff which is valuable for you.

As good as they get.......2007-06-10

LOVE it! With 9-10 machines that I need to synchronize data between, some laptops some desktops, this is the right external HD and the price is certainly right, having broken below the $1/gig point that external drives seem to have been stuck at.

It's not blazingly fast, but fast enough to work from.

It's quite quiet and the design is exceptionally slick with the rubber cover over the usb port.

My only complaint (and it's a pithy one) is that the usb cable shipped with the drive is no bigger than about 4 inches.

Power Hungry Device overloads USB ports.......2007-06-07

Western Digital is well known for quality hard drives, so when I saw the 160gb Passport on sale, I got one without hesitation. I had no problem using it on my home PC. It did NOT work on my Dell M60 Laptop, nor any of a half-dozen other laptops I tried. It would overload the port and a warning message indicating USB power surge/overload would pop up on the screen. Since my primary intended use was to transfer files from my laptop to my home PC, I returned it to the store for another model (Firelite). Other reviews indicate that this is not a "rare problem" (as WD would tell you). WD sells a cable that combines power of two USB ports (an extra $9.95 on it's online store) that solves this problem and that of a very short 8" USB cable supplied. Of course, who wants to tie up two of the limited USB ports on a laptop? They could provide an optional power cable using a PS2 port like my Firelite did. Yes, the drive is attractive, fast and very quiet, but until WD gets a handle on the high power demands, I can't recommend it.

Answer to backkup prayers.......2007-06-03

I've backed up PCs (and small business networks) since 1980 - before there was an IBM PC - using 5.25-inch floppies, then 3.5-inch floppies; followed by Zip disks, QIC tape, DAT tape, CDs, and now, at long last, a hard disk. I recently bought a new laptop and thought I'd use the DVD writer in it for backing up. Har har, it was old home week with the same error problems I've faced all too often for years. ("Bad byte on disk xxx," "cannot verify file xxxx," and the like.)

It is a pleasure to at last get a reasonably fast backup that consists of executable FILES, not proprietary code format files (albeit ziped files) without errors in the media causing a fubar, snafu, or blivet well into the process, requiring a start over.

The physical size of this pocket portable in combination with its capacity mean you would easily spend multiples of its price on any other medium - and take a chance every backup with them, of a failure. And if your time means anything to you, acquiring one of these units today should be an absolute no-brainer.

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