I got this Hard Drive to use as a backup medium for my laptop when I went to uni and its not let me down since! I used it every day for 2 years to backup my university work and photos before I had to buy another one because I needed more space. I connect the Hard Drive to my laptop via the high speed USB2 connector. This connector allows for high speed transfers between your computer and the hard drive. Its nice and quiet too so you can leave it to back up over night without it keeping you awake. It does need an additional power cable to give it power and this cable is very thin and not very long which does limit where you can put it but that's not a huge ...  Read the complete review

Western digital are a long standing and fairly prestigious name in the world of data storage. This external 500Gb hard drive, seemed like the perfect solution for me - somewhere to back up all of my music and photographs, leaving me safe in the knowledge that they are secure forever. This very quiet and sturdy unit sits near your computer and plugs into a USB or firewire port, and for all intents and purposes behaves exactly as your internal hard drive does. It automatically switches on and off when you power your PC on or off. Data transfer between this unit and your PC is surprisingly quick even with USB, and only slowed noticably when ...  Read the complete review