The My Passport Essential is only small in size. The 320GB capacity lets you carry all of your important files with you and gives you room for music, movies and video too. The glossy black case adds a bit of elegance to your system. Since the drive gets its power from the USB bus you don't have to worry about carrying a power cord.
The My Passport™ Essential™ USB drive, features WD SmartWare™ data management and backup software that backs up your data automatically and continuously, shows your backup as it happens, and restores lost files effortlessly. Password protection and military-grade, 256-bit hardware-based encryption lets you secure your data.
The included Google software gives you advanced search and management capabilities to make data management a snap. Get all your work done on the road then sync all the changes to your home or office system.
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How to take the drive out
- Pros: Cheap. The hard drive inside is WD3200BEVT 320G 8M cache, SATA-2, which by itself sells for more than the price of this enclosure. After I swapped it into my Thinkpad T60, the read speed is higher than 60MB/s! And to assure you guys eager to try - I am able to use my old 80GB Samsung drive in this one. Very reliable. After I took it apart I found the inside of the enclosure beautifully designed and of very good quality. The USB connection speed is satisfactory, too.
- Cons: The enclosure catches fingerprints. It is not that easy to take it apart. Still bigger than some 3rd-party enclosures.
- Other Thoughts: You can see the case is made of two parts: a big U-shaped plastic that looks like the the front and back covers of a small book, and a (also U-shaped) narrow stripe that closes the gap between the two leaves. First, pry open the seals (I used a slotted screwdriver, but covered it with scotch tape so it won't scratch the case) until you can to some extent "open" the book slightly; then hold the narrow U-shaped piece and pull - right, just pull it out from the side. After that everything should be fairly easy to figure out.
Too many people complain about FAT32
- Pros: Great size, works "out of the box" on just about anything, as far as I know the largest drive to actually run off the usb ports power.
- Cons: Look at it funny and the finish scratches.
- Other Thoughts: FAT32 is a good choice for the initial format of external hard drives. Plug it in to a mac or a linux computer and it works just fine, and I for one use these to hold things that I need to move around between computers. I'm glad at least one manufacturer manages to realize that no everyone uses only windows. How would you windows users like it if everyone thought it was a good idea to ship these things formatted ext3 or HFS+?
| Model | WDME3200TN |
| Interface | USB 2.0 |
| Capacity | 320GB |
| Form Factor | 2.5" |
Reviewed By: bessel on 5/4/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
