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Western Digital Passport Essential Portable 250GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (WDME2500TN) | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $99.99
You Save: $30.00 (23%)
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
System Memory: 2
Hard Drive Size: 250
Clothing Size: 250 GB
Size: 250 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 6 x 2
nv:Capacity (GB): 250
Interface: USB 2.0
Spindle Speed (RPM): 5400
Average Seek (msec): <12
Track-to-Track Seek Time (typical read, ms): 2.0
Access Time: 5.0 ms
Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDME2500TN
Model: WDME2500TN
UPC: 492411616749
EAN: 0492411616749
ASIN: B0012GK3MQ
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Box Contents - My Passport Essential 250GB Portable USB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install guide | | • | 250GB Hard Drive Capacity | | • | Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in | | • | Powered by the USB bus. No separate power supply is needed | | • | This ultra-portable drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and holds tons of valuable data |
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Product Description
Pack up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures, and synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security. 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 enh, its ok July 15, 2008
Mindspin (KC)
its small, its slow, its black, and u better go buy yourself a usb Y adapter for more power support on older usb ports or older laptops, other than that, western digital is the best, but the speed on this thing really isnt, but hey its powerd by usb, yay. its the best for now, or you can wait 6months for a faster one. ha.
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 It was exactly what I was looking for, the whole ordering and shipping process was great. July 12, 2008
A. Shiang (Potomac, MD)
The product works great. Easy to install, has a good price performance ratio. The actual size is like an iPot Video, easy to carry around. I am very happy with the product.
 Fabulous July 9, 2008
R. Eichmiller (Fort Atkinson, WI)
I've had this for about 3 weeks now. I read a lot of reviews before I purchased this item. It's great. I take it to work and listen to my music there. I did not load the software as all the reviews I had read of people who did said it was unnecessary. Drag and drop feature works just fine! Great product.
Loving it so far... July 3, 2008
Reviewer (Anytown USA)
To make doubly sure this review is tied to the correct product, as I have noted reviews for slightly different models in the same series seem to be shared across all model types, it refers to the Western Digital 250GB My Passport Essential in black.
This was my first external hard drive purchase so my newbieness will be apparent from the rest of this review. The first thing I did when I got it out of the package was plug it into a USB hub. Nothing happened. Not recognized. I figured it wasn't getting enough power - which I learned from reading other's reviews, not from a manual that WD incidentally doesn't include in the package - you can't get to this until you actually install the hardware (it's a PDF file on the external drive)- so a star comes off for not including a quick start guide beyond a small square of paper that essentially says "plug into computer. launch wdsync.exe". It wasn't QUITE that easy.
I then called Western Digital support and spoke to a friendly rep who confirmed I was not getting enough power from the hub, which I had already figured out during the short wait it took me to get through to someone, and the device was recognized as soon as I plugged it into a USB port on the back of my computer.
Anyway, while the rep helpfully offered to send me a second free USB cable so I could power the drive directly from the hub in the future, he also said it was impossible for me to use this as a back up drive for all my programs and files. Huh? Isn't that what I bought it for? I decided that he either didn't know what he was talking about or maybe there was some language barrier or I was an idiot..so I tried the sync software first and it seemed to be working..everything looked to be copying over, but when it signalled the process was finished, I found nothing stored onto the drive. I have no idea why.
At that point I simply selected all my files and folders and dragged and dropped them all into the new drive folder. I immediately got a window saying it was copying and would take 183 minutes, and about ten minutes later I came back to check on the progress and everything was there. Everything. All files and folders copied over very fast and seemed to miss nothing. I'd like to point out that the device was connected through a 1.1 USB hub on my Dell Dimension Desktop, which is running XP, and this process was FAST! I'd been worried about this after reading many reviews complaining about what a slow process it would be to backup everything with only a 1.1 USB hub but I didn't experience this. Maybe because I only have 20GB of disk space on the desktop to begin with.
I couldn't believe how quick and easy this was and actually kept rechecking that all the files and folders - including my entire iTunes library, photos, and documents..were in the Passport drive and not in another file folder. Then I realized while I had copied the iTunes program I had somehow forgotten to select all song folders, and when I went back and dragged those in the process indicated it would take an hour, so that's more believable. I am new to this whole process of transfering files but seem to remember somebody telling me that if you copy over iTunes but not the source files, when you open iTunes from the external drive it'll be searching for the song files and won't find them.
Now that this is all out of the way, I am very pleased, even though I've only owned this a couple of hours, but so far so good!
Great Space/Cost ratio June 29, 2008
Uriel Rozenbaum (Buenos Aires, ARG)
For starters this product has a great cost benefit, almost 30c per Gigabyte. Additionally you'll find some interesting features, like Outlook backup that will amaze you; more on application power than in presentation and front end.
Anyway, a great device, I hope it'll last in a healthy way until I buy some other with 5 Terabytes.
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