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WD My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive - €59.99 PcWorld

  • 21-03-2011 12:31pm
    #1
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Needed one for work and picked one up in my local pc world. Very good price, even for online it seems.



    http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/WESTERN-DIGITAL-My-Passport-Essential-Portbl-Hard-Drive-500GB-Midnight-Black/304369/326

    The Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive lets you take your data with you everywhere you go. Here in a sexy midnight black finish, this hard drive has the space and the functionality to make sure that nothing gets left behind!

    The WD My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive has a 500GB capacity, packed into a compact lightweight frame. One of the highlights of this hard disk drive is its USB 3.0 connectivity, which is also backward compatible with USB 2.0. This not only lets you connect to a whole host of devices, but also keeps you ready to work with devices in the future with USB 3.0 compatibility!

    The slim black My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive from Western Digital also boasts faster transfer rates, with up to 5Gb/sec in the USB 3.0 mode! Along with its instant backup and support feature, it also has password protection and encryption to make sure your data remains yours only!

    The My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive benefits from the legendary Western Digital quality to provide complete peace of mind for your data transfers and storage.


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  • #2
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,413 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Got one of the older slightly-squarer models of this to use with my WDTV over 2 years ago..

    .. and I use it every single day and can't fault it!

    I did read somewhere that the newer models aren't quite as reliable, but could be mistaken.


  • #3
    johnwd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭johnwd


    This is a good deal. I got one of the older ones too - and took it apart to put into my PS3 when I "needed" a bigger portable drive. Beware that as far as I know the latest ones cannot be taken apart - the old ones had a sata to usb converter on them that was easy to take apart - but on the newer ones I've heard that the USB is soldered to the drive or similar - that's to say it can't be taken apart and used in a laptop or a PS3 etc. The good news is that that arrangement makes the portable drive smaller.


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