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Carry your music, video, and photos in style with WD’s My Passport Essential Portable Drive. Big capacity in a small elegant design.These elegant portable drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter - they are powered directly through the USB cable. Works with Windows and Mac, they allow you synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security.
Customer Review: WD 320GB My Passport
I have used a couple of these Portable HDDs in the past and everyone of them are still in great shape, and serve their purpose very well. Another nice point to bring up is they do not require a power cable, they are powered by the USB connection.
Customer Review: Great device
Bought for my husband for christmas. He needed one of these portable harddrives. It’s very compact, nice looking with it’s piano finish look, and good quality. Great price for this device. Worth every cent. Buy Here

640GB - 7200rpm - Serial ATA/300 - Serial ATA - Internal Buy Here

WD Elements USB 2.0 external hard drive is an easy-to-use, reliable way to add more storage to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving or backing up your photos, music, video, and files. It’s preformatted for immediate use so there’s no software or CD to load. The compact, durable metal case provides extra data protection helping keep data safe from loss.
Customer Review: Great deal
The price and delivery were excellent. The hard drive installation was very easy, and it works great. Very satisfied.
Customer Review: Really great external drive
Haven’t really got into using this drive yet. It is a good old brand name and was purchased for the size and price. I thought it was unbeatable. Buy Here

That’s a comfortable storage capacity for lots of audio, video, and photo downloads. The Western Digital WD5000CSRTL Caviar GP 500GB Hard Drive is designed to install into an available 3.5″ internal drive bay of your desktop PC. Using SATA connectivity, data transfer speeds can zoom up to 3GB per second. IntelliPower adjust drive rotation speed to maximize energy efficiency without compromising performance and speed. So now you can download more movies, more videos, and more audio. You’ve got 500GB of reliable storage on this dependable hard drive from Western Digital. IntelliPower gives you fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance 11.0 sec average seek time IntelliSeek and IntelliPark features help lower power consumption Perpendicular Magnetic Recording achieves great areal density Pre-emptive Wear Leveling proactively monitors and prevents magnetic wear during high read/write duty cycle applications Compatible with Desktop PC
Customer Review: Deception by WD
This is a large drive for the price. However, the performance of this drive is not up to par. I figured the whole “Green Power” tagline was mostly just marketing and that perhaps it had a more efficient motor. Turns out it actually achieves it’s power savings through poor performance. Pretty much every consumer grade drive out there today spins at 7200 RPMs. Not this drive. Nobody actually knows how fast it spins since WD doesn’t publish it. One thing we do know is that it spins at less than 7200 RPMs. I think the main problem is that WD is not up front about all this. I’ve had good success with WD drives, but this is not a winner for me.
Customer Review: 500GB Sata II 16MB-RETAIL Kit
Drive is quiet and quick. Currently using it for my pvr. Would purchase again. Buy Here

The WD Caviar Blue features cool-running, quiet operation, and superior performance for desktop and business applications. Buy Here

Model Brand Western Digital Series Scorpio Model WD1600BEVE Performance Interface ATA-6 Capacity 160GB Cache 8MB Average Seek Time 12ms Average Latency 5.5ms RPM 5400 RPM Physical Spec Form Factor 2.5″ Rugged - WD Scorpio’s rigid stainless steel top cover withstands more than 5 pounds of pressure - nearly 1.5 times the industry average - without pinching vital internal components. Features Mirror Finish Aluminum Material Any 2.5″ Parallel ATA Hard Drive Detail Specification Dimensions 12.5cm x 7.5cm x 1.2cm / 0.13 lbs 18.0cmx 13cm x 4cm /0.47 lbs(included retail box) Description USB2.0 HDD Enclosures provides cutting-edge technology with maximum durability, flexibility and portability. Extra slim design and Aluminum casing, made for high performance at your desktop and on the go. Case Material Aluminum with mirror finish Application Any 2.5″ Parallel ATA Hard Drive (Notebook size HDD up to 9.5mm) Interface/Ports USB 2.0 (USB1.1) Data Transfer USB 2.0 up to 480Mbps (60MB/s) USB 1.1 up to 12Mbps (1.5MB/s) Windows Requirements USB 2.0: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP USB 1.1: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP Your hardware device must have proper port or PCI card Mac Requirements USB 2.0: Mac OS 10.2 or higher USB 1.1: Mac OS 9.1 or higher (You must update the USB extension to v1.41 or higher between Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.04) Your hardware device must have proper port or PCI card Power Supply Bus power with power on LED, no external power supply Packing Accessories USB 2.0 Enclosure USB 2.0 cable Manual, screwdriver, screw, driver CD, coat Buy Here

A luxurious soft-touch finish makes these drives easy to grip, comfortable to hold, and beautiful to show off to your friends. Combine that with mega-capacity that fits in your pocket, plus four powerful features — capacity gauge, automatic backup, sync and encryption, and remote access software — and you’ll understand why we call these little drives Elite. Capacity Gauge allows you to connect My Passport to your computer and see at a glance how much space is available on your drive. Save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your e-mail and contacts to your iPod, and back up all the precious files on your computer to your My Passport. Set it and forget it; every time you plug your My Passport into your computer your data is automatically backed up. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug My Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption. (Windows only) Connect My Passport to any PC and run MioNet Key software to remotely access files, music, and photos from any of your computers with MioNet software installed. This compact drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and with capacities up to 320 GB, you can take approximately 91,000 photos, 24 hours of videos, 80,000 songs, or tons files with you wherever you go. You can even plug My Passport into the USB port on your gaming console to play your music or view photo and video files on your TV. System Requirements - Available USB port, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.10+, 10.5.2+ Approximate Unit Dimensions - 0.59(H) x 4.967(L) x 3.13(W) Approximate Unit Weight - 0.231 pounds
Customer Review: A small and efficient external hard drive
This external hard drive is everything that I was looking for; it’s very small and it’s fast.
Customer Review: Small & Great!
Great little hard-drive. I’ve only used it on one computer for about 3 months but no issues. Really easy to set up and very small. I purchased a case and plan to travel with it as well. Buy Here

Cool-running, quiet operation, superior performance and industry-leading reliability make these next-generation WD Caviar Blue drives the perfect hard drives for desktop and enterprise storage. Buy Here

WD Caviar 7200 RPM EIDE hard drives are offered in capacities up to 250 GB, with performance geared to advanced and mainstream desktop personal computers. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability because Western Digital understands the importance of the data that is entrusted to its products.
Customer Review: Great Drive
This drive, like all Western Digital Drives, is working great after 6 months use. Installed easily, booted right up, and has been fast, dependable, and quiet ever since. Buy Here

WD Scorpio delivers best-in-class performance with low power requirements comparable to much slower notebook drives. In addition, you’ll get the quietest 2.5-inch drive on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe.
Customer Review: Awesome PS3 replacement
This product works as expected. I installed into a PS3 to greatly increase the HDD space. I have used it for approximately one year without any problems whatsoever. Buy Here