One of My Essentials!!! (Western Digital My Passport Essential WDME5000 500 GB)

Member Name: valve90210

Product:	Western Digital My Passport Essential WDME5000 500 GB
Date:	27/10/09 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Small, fast file transfers, truly portable

Disadvantages: None

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 another external drive. However, as I was also running out of plug sockets I decided to go for a drive which was powered through the USB lead.

As a big fan of Western Digital hard drives, I looked at their range and opted for the My Passport 500GB model which set me back approximately £80.

My first impression was just how small the drive was compared to my other external drives, measuring approx 11cm x 8cm x 2 cm, it really is a small unit. The case is black with a Western digital logo on the top.

On one side there is a USB socket for connecting to the computer and that is prety much all there is to say about it.

Included in the box is a USB lead, (so often not included with USB items these days), so you are ready to get using the drive straight away.

Files tranfers were nice and fast as I expected and everything worked as it should so I am very happy with it.

The fact that it is powered through the USB lead (and the small size) is great as it makes the drive a completely portable option, allowing you to easily take a huge amount of files on the move with you, something which comes in handy in my line of work (as a designer) as it allows me to take all kinds of artwork and huge files whereever I go without having to borrow a plug socket to get going.

I really can't recommend this drive enough, it's great!!

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Summary: If you need more storage space you could do a lot worse than this!!!

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