Western Digital 320GB My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0 Midnight Black

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Carry your photos, videos, files and music conveniently with the 320 GB My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive from Western Digital. It features SmartWare data management and backup software that backs up your data automatically and continuously. Also, this software shows your backup as it happens, and retrieves your valuable data to its original location whether youve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file. This hard drive offers password protection and military-grade 256-bit hardware-based encryption and gives you peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft. Featuring USB interface, Passport Essential provides easy installation and use. Packed with such striking features, this 320 GB portable hard drive is the one to fit in your style.

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Western Digital 320GB My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0 Midnight Black Review

Not your regular external

★☆☆☆☆

1.0

"Review:This is only good for keeping a back up of your current state hard drive. You cannot use it as storage for all your movies or music you may have on your computer that you wish to store off your computer so you can come back to it later. To do that you would have to rename the folder on the pa …" Read Full Review »

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"I just bought this hdd last night. Went home booted this thing up on my laptop. mind you its called a "LAPtop" which it sits on your lap. no table for steady use. So guess what, There are two major problems on this hdd.

First the usb cord is extremely short there is no way for me to put the hdd anyw …" Read Full Review »

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Oct 6 2009

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Not for Netbooks

★★★☆☆

3.0

"This product would have been great for a regular size laptop or desktop. However, I tried to install this on my Acer one netbook and while it was incredibly simple to get set up (you just plug it in and windows installs all the required drivers), I couldn't actually perform any tasks. Once it is ins …" Read Full Review »

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Sep 27 2009

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Western Digital 320GB My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0 Midnight Black Review

Does the job, if you can

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4.0

"Initially, I couldn't get the pre-loaded software to work with the drive. The .exe would close and quit before it fully loaded (XP). Easy fix, install latest software update from WD. I backed up all of my important data from my XP desktop in about 45 minutes.

I then used the device to back up data …" Read Full Review »

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Oct 22 2009

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modern design/size with sub-standard usb port

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"I thought this will be a dream product when saw it in the store. Initially it went all fine and love the product. The nightmare started when I moved around and travel. I thought this is supposed to be a "portable" drive, and yes it is "portable" just by itself I guess in terms of size and weight, BU …" Read Full Review »

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