Western Digital My Passport Essential WDME5000 500 GB

My very first PC many years ago came with a 6GB hard drive, when I added a second 6GB hard drive (costing me about £100 - yes this wsa more than a few years ago), my friends were blown away by the huge amount of storage space I had. Coming from early home computers like the Acorn Electron, any internal storage space was a novelty and to have as much as I did was almost unheard of!! Over the years the cost of hard drive storage space has plummeted and now you can buy huge amounts of storage space for very little money. I already have three external drives giving me a total of about 750GB so when I started to run out of space...yes really!...I decided to go for ...  Read the complete review

The Western Digital external hard disk is easy to use storage for your computer. Although it connects via USB with one cable, you also need an AC power adapter as well. This is included in the box but may make it unsuitable for use with a laptop on the move. Once all two of the cables are connected which are both of a nice length, you are up and running. Presumably for compatibility to older computers, the disk is formatted in a format type known to geeks as 'FAT32'. Now, this may not seem like such an issue, however FAT32 discs cannot store files larger than 4GB. If you are trying to back up your computer then 4GB is not likely to be large enough ...  Read the complete review

This is such a handy hard drive, i am as fashion designer and i love this little tiny thing its small but it has got alot of capacity i use it to store all my films, songs and PDF, JPEGS mainly Photoshop illustration softwares and i assure you my files are huge and this passport is amazing. It allows me to carry alot of data with me and its such a reliable brand that i dont have to worry to much about it braking down on me. I also have the Western Digital My book. Its professional looking too. Ive had mine fore over a year now and i still use it everyday and not had to buy a new one in time being. I used to hate how USB transfer soo slow but these ...  Read the complete review

If you ever wanted one of the one the move hard disk look no further. The Western digital my passport 500 GB version ffers the perfect balance between portability and storage space Without the need of external power and its small size its great for those boring train journeys. Another notable feature I found was that it works very quietly and is almost noise free cmpared to its big brohter counterparts The my passport feautre has basic encryption for tose with security concerns. It also has the added advantage of a USB2.0 cmpatability with a higher speed than its compeptition. Perhapbs the best feature is that it doenst slow you computer down when ...  Read the complete review