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Western Digital Passport USB Portable Hard Drive

Western Digital Passport USB Portable Hard Drive (160GB) is a small passport sized external USB hard drive. The drive has a solid design and comes with a zippered, hard carrying case making it easily portable. It has a dimension of 5.68 inches by 3.5 inches by 0.83 in inch (LWH) and weighs only 0.6 ponds. Like the other Western Digital Passport, the 160GB black version comes with WD Sync software, which includes 128-bit AES encryption software. Its is best coupled with a laptop, and best suited for the people who want to take their work home but does not want to carry the laptop.

Connectivity & Setup:

Western Digital Passport USB Portable Hard Drive (160GB) comes with a single standard mini USB port hidden under a protective door. It’s a bus-powered drive and hence a single cable is for both data and power. Setting the drive is very simple just plug in the drive to your PC or Laptop and it is up and running.

Features:

• Quick at reading and writing (External Data Transfer Rate - 480 Mbps, Seek Time - 12 ms (average), and Track-to-Track Seek Time - 2 ms).
• Western Digital Passport USB Portable Hard Drive 160GB of drive space is enough for over 100,000 digital photos or MP3 files.
• Western Digital preloads some software on the drive, including Google’s desktop software, WD Sync synchronization-and-encryption software, and an electronic version of the included quick-start guide.
• WD Sync software, which includes 128-bit AES encryption software.
• Relies totally on USB power to spin the drives.
• Buffer size 2MB.
• OS supported Windows 98 SE/Me/2000/XP; Mac OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X 10.1.5+

Qualities

• It is a Bus-powered drive and requires only a single cable for both power and data transfer.
• Fast data reading and writing.
• Includes sync and encryption software.
• Easily portable with the zippered, hard carrying case that comes along the drive.

Drawbacks:

• The sync-and-encrypt software on the drives works with only Windows 2000 and XP operating systems, so Mac users will have to find and install their own software.

Comments:

ith its quick read and write speed I would recommend the Western Digital Passport USB Portable Hard Drive who need document backup. I use it to carry my presentations and other important documents. It’s small enough to fit anywhere in your luggage. With its low price the drive lets you take a lot of data on the road. It is best suited for the music lovers as it can hold all of your music collection.