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Western Digital WDMLZ3200TN Passport Elite 320GB Portable USB Drive - Bronze | List Price: $199.99
Discount Price: $137.99
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Features: - Box Contents - My Passport Elite 320GB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 Cable, Drawstring Carrying Bag, Quick Install Guide, 5-Year Warranty
- 320GB Hard Drive
- USB 2.0 and 1.1 Interface
- Powered by the USB bus
- Up to 480Mb/sec Bus Transfer Rate with USB 2.0
Very small, very light, totally silent, reliable 320 gb [Posted on 2008-05-03]
Smallest, lightest, virtually silent drive I've ever used. In comparson to a deck of cards, this drive is sightly longer, about the same width, somewhat heavier.
I lke it a lot, in fact I just bought a second one, and will be dumping 3 or 4 of my 100-200 gb annoyingly large, heavy, hot, and loud external drives.
This drive works great, BUT only after I connected it to my laptop using an externaly powered accessory USB hub. I strongly recommend this type of connection for external drives, USB/CD burners, etc. The power coming from one USP port of my IBM-T42 simply did not provide adequate power to the drive, and my laptop WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE the drive when I connected with the supplied cable. This is a common problem for external devices such as drives and burners. Many computers, especially laptops, have very limited power available from a single USB port.
I installed the included backup software but then disabled it. The backup software can be set to "syncronize" folders you pick so that two or more folders on different drives will have the same contents. This works but is not the type of back up strategy I use. I backup the whole drive, windows and all, to make disaster recovery a "one step" job.
I wanted to use the included encryption software but apparently this is a "pay-extra" software and I couldn't install it.
So I am now using an open source encryption tool called "true-crypt", which I highly recommend. Don't forget your password however, there is no "back door" once you've encrypted your data!
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