Western Digital 320GB Passport Essential WDME3200TN

List Price: $199.99 Discount Price: $124.99

Features:

• Box Contents - My Passport Essential 320GB Portable USB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install guide
• 320GB Hard Drive Capacity
• Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in
• Powered by the USB bus. No separate power supply is needed
• This ultra-portable drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and holds tons of valuable data

Accessories:
3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $0-$200 - Repair	Red Small Case for Eva Hard Drive

Customer Reviews:

A good looking, slow transferring, extremelly portable hard drive [Posted on 2008-03-12]
This is my third external portable hard drive. This is a very light and good looking drive. I really love its look. Once it was plugged in my laptop pc, it was recognized right away. It works constantly well with one of my three usb ports of my T60 laptop. But for the other two ports, it lost the connection very frequently. I guess this is a power issue. I bet this drive will be super fast if it uses a line using two usb ports as my the other one. This is why I rate it as 4 instead of 5 stars. The transferring speed of this drive is way slower than my Seagate free agent desk external hard drive, as well as my old hard drive with Macally PHR-250CC FireWire enclosure (it requires two usb ports or one 6pin firewire port). It took more than half hours to move 30G media file from Seagate external drive to this one while it took less than 10 minutes easily for my other two drives to move these big files. But it is acceptable as long as you don't want to copy big files from one to this one urgently. I also run a Warcraft computer game from this drive. It works smoothly.

It should be noted that the blue light indicator on the back of the old version passort disappears on this new version. Instead, A usb white light indicator is placed right besides the usb connection port.

Overall, I think this is good drive with large enough capacity. I wish some day usb port can provide more power though.

Awesome portable hard drive [Posted on 2008-04-07]
This is my second WD Passport drive as the first (160GB) has been very reliable. I bought the 320GB to back up and share files between my home and office PCs. The speed is a bit lacking, but this is a portable drive and it doesn't require external AC, so I can forgive its slowness. Its convenience factor is just great, and 320GB (~=298GB as reported by Windows) is lots of storage for on-the-go needs. I recommend this highly as a portable storage solution -- and the drive is quite stylish.

Just what I needed [Posted on 2008-04-18]
This is the 6th external hard drive I have purchased in 2 years and so far the best invesment I have made in terms of physical size vs. drive size. I paid 150$ for this 320GB model. The plug n' play is a snap and being USB powered reduces a lot of the headache that comes with the power adapter required hard drives. Even with my large music and movie collection this drive provides enough space and then some (298GB formatted).

It's pretty fast for my needs (itunes library). I am running a Macbook Pro (1G).

I'm selling my other external hard drives seeing as I am trying to streamline my workstation and keep things simple and nice. Between the choice of 1 USB plug + and a small, lightweight drive versus a USB plug + power adapter + clunky drive, it's easy to make the decision.

Deep,
Marcus McGhee

Great drive, but, not exactly comaptible with older laptops [Posted on 2008-04-28]
This drive is a great product. It's compact size makes it perfect for use while traveling, especially since it does not require a power supply. Watch out, however, if you plan to use it with an older laptop. The drive consumes more power than some USB ports provide. You can get around this by purchasing a special cable that pulls power from an additional USB port, which is not too convenient if you only have two ports and use other USB products.

Only five stars from a techie [Posted on 2008-04-30]
Here's the problem from a techie's perspective: the drive loads software automatically. This is not what most techies (understood as Information Technology geek) want. We like to plug in the drive and then use our tools to work with it. However, the fix is simple - you just have to delete the files off the drive when you first connect it.

This is probably not an issued for the average user and the drive is fast, quiet, and small. Perfect for connecting to my laptop at the front of a training or seminar room when I'm teaching a class. The portability is great since I travel a lot. Great device once the software is removed ;-)

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