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Western Digital My Passport Essential 250GB USB Portable Hard Drive -Real Red | 
 enlarge | Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
Buy New: £48.50
New (27) from £48.50
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 467
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
MPN: WDMER2500TE
Model: WDMER2500TE
UPC: 718037730905
EAN: 0718037730905
ASIN: B0015RWYC4
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | General Information: Capacity - 250 GB / Interface - USB 2.0 / Transfer Rate - 480 Mbps (maximum) / Size - 15 x 126.15 x 79.5 mm / Weight - 0.1048 kg / Required Configuration - Windows 2000/XP/Vista Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later / Content - My Passport Essential external hard drive, USB cable |
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Product Description
The My Passport Essential is small, lightweight and fits easily into your pocket. This portable storage unit designed by Western Digital will enable you to organise your files and take thousands of songs, photos and videos with you everywhere. The My Passport Essential doesnt require a power adapter; its self-powered through your computers USB port.
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| Customer Reviews:
A pocket wonder September 24, 2008
Tom Douglas (Oxford, United Kingdom)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This hard disk drive is not much bigger than a mobile phone - 12.6cm x 7.9cm x 1.5cm - and holds a whopping 250Gb.
This makes is the perfect back-up drive that you can take with you. I carry mine in my laptop bag, so that should my laptop hard disk fail I have all my data with me and can still work. Assuming I can borrow a PC or laptop that is.
At home it can sit in a drawer and, if you want to pop round a friends house and share some tunes, it will sit in your pocket without causing an embarrassing bulge.
I have been using Western Digital for years and have never had any technical problems - I simply upgrade for capacity.
The one negative is the bundled sync software. It's a dog and is best avoided. Search for syncback on Google and you will find a great backup utility that is free for the basic version and very cheap for the full version.
The final point about My Passport Essential is the wonderful choice of colours. No more dull grey or matt black technology, these drives are busting with colour.
Great technology, very reliable, huge choice of colours and very keenly priced.
Five stars.
Small but capacious September 7, 2008
Cheatin' Jockey (Worcestershire)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Got this to backup my wife's laptop - it does what it says on the tin. The sync software works well (as long as you understand it also deletes during the sync process!) and the disk itself is small with a short USB cable. It's not blisteringly fast (backed up 64GB in about an hour or so) but it doesn't need its own power so it can be forgiven for that.
The red is cool but the edges are white bordering on pink so be aware if you're colour concious!
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