Western Digital Passport WDXMS2500 250 GB

I tried a variety of smaller hard drives for work before I found this one. 6GB or 8GB sounds quite large until you start filling them up. This one though with its 250GB has still to be filled. This is obviously a fair bit bigger than your average pen drive or giga cube, but its still small enough to slip into a handbag or pocket. You can also pick up a protective hard case for about £8. I now do all my work directly from this drive so I dont have to worry about which is the most up to date version of files. I then use Microsoft sync toy to provide a home backup. Western Digital also provide a sync tool but I havent tried it. There is also an option in ...  Read the complete review

Western Digital has a good reputation for providing high quality reliable external hard drives. This model is even better than the previous one that I have bought. Firstly it is smaller than the My Book edition which was not a portable hard drive. The Passport edition is according to its name almost as small as a passport which means that it can fit into a larger pocket or very comfortably into your bag. One of the greatest features about this device is that there is no power cord needed the HD is powered via USB - so as soon as you plug it into your computer it is running and ready to use! It uses high speed data transfer through USB 2.0 and has ...  Read the complete review