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Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB Portable External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
Buy New: £63.37
as of 19/3/2010 02:48 CDT details
New (1) Used (2) from £52.96
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 949
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.1 x 0.6
MPN: WDME3200TE
Model: WDME3200TE
UPC: 718037729657
EAN: 3523210002635
ASIN: B0012IAA8G
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Product - Read if you are worried about the sync software February 5, 2009
F. Hatch (UK)
52 out of 52 found this review helpful
I bought this external drive only a few days ago after reading the good reviews and I was worried about a few things, firstly about the sync software and secondly about the low transfer rate, thirdly about the power required to run the drive.
Let me start off by saying it is a wonderful product and that you should not worry about any of the above. I use the drive to store files that are important such as documents, pictures, films, music and TV series.
Firstly about the sync software, I do not like most software that comes with items like this. It is made for people that just want an "easier" method of transfering files, and creating a better backup of your computer files. But if you are fine with transfering your own files, you know how to create folders, and just use the drive for storing files rather than create a backup to boot from, then just ignore the sync software. You do NOT need to use it for just file storage use, after you tell it to not ask you to run the setup.exe, it no longer will. I was undecided as to whether i would ever require it so i just placed it all in a new folder on the drive in case.
Secondly the transfer rate i found with just moving files onto the drive was great, and not slow as some reviewers said. I cannot give exact speeds, but for about 30GB of data it took about 15-20 minutes or less. I have no had any problems with it on vista, everything was recognised and i just treat it as another drive.
Thirdly I have had no problems with running it from my desktop computer or from my laptop.
On another point, i do not find that it scratches much, it has a four base pads protecting it from the desk, but i find it to be sturdy and easy to just wipe clean with something dry.
If you want an all round good drive, then I would recommend this drive depending on the amount you want to store. Its a great buy.
No nonsense drive with no frills (not that you need frills!!) August 26, 2008
Dr. D. E. Goldwater (Bushey, Herts, UK)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
This was delivered last week. It looks very nice (although it gets grubby fingerprints on it when you look at it). It should really come with a case but I found it fits like a glove in my Archos case which I had replaced.
I have not bothered with the software but as a drive it is quiet and quick and HUGE. All my photos, music and video backed up in minutes.
I have not a bad word to say about this product. This is not really a terribly sexy area of technology but I am quite excited to own this.
A pocket wonder September 24, 2008
Tom Douglas (Mid-Atlantic)
23 out of 23 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.
Huge portable storage with a minimum of wires May 27, 2008
W. Nelson (UK)
49 out of 50 found this review helpful
And it's quick too. I used it to move my video/mp3 collection to my PS3 and was pretty much astounded at how fast it went. And all running off power supplied over the USB cable. Very 21st century and a world away from the old 3.5" external drives with clunky power supplies I've been using up til now. Neither of which I could get the PS3 to even recognize I might add.
I can't think of a bad thing to say about it.
 Perfect For Time Machine On A MacBook May 15, 2008
Alan (United Kingdom)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I just bought a white My Book Passport Essential for use with a white Apple MacBook laptop. Western Digital have clearly been inspired by Apple's design, what with the drive's heavily rounded corners, white USB cable and white power light. It seriously looks as if it was created as a companion product for the MacBook, by Apple themselves, which is great.
The drive is very very tiny, at just 12.5 cm in width, and 1.5 cm in depth. Very portable, manageable, and easy to pick up. The drive also runs whisper quiet, which is very unusual for an external hard drive. Western Digital's other products, such as the My Book Essential and Studio, have an annoying habit of "spinning down" and "spinning up" again, throughout the day. But this My Book Passport drive is sublimely silent. Ahhh, silence!
Annoyingly, the product packaging comes loaded with references to Windows and very little mention of Mac OS X. There's mention of the "Windows only WD Sync software". Labels stating "Works with Windows Vista" and "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP and 2000". All Mac users get is an out-of-date Finder logo. Thanks Western Digital.
The drive works flawlessly with Mac OS X Leopard's Time Machine software. Who needs "WD Sync" anyway when you have Time Machine. Just set it and forget it. Time Machine automatically makes a copy of EVERYTHING on your MacBook's internal hard drive and stores it on the My Book Passport. Time Machine automatically updates the copy EVERY hour, provided the My Book Passport is connected. It's a very cool system. Not only does Time Machine keep everything CURRENTLY on your MacBook, it keeps changed and deleted files, going back in time.
Overall, this is a very satisfying product and perfect for use with Time Machine. I just wish Western Digital's packaging was updated to reflect CURRENT Apple technology, not Apple from 10 years ago!
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