Rating: - Died on 3rd day of use
Drive worked fine at first and then died making strange whirring sounds even when computer not trying to access the drive. Strange, but when connected to any computer it has decided to call itself a 2 TB drive. I use an Apple MacBookPro (which has worked fine with other WD USB hard drives. I've requested a replacement drive. My recommendation: AVOID THIS DRIVE
Rating: - Worth the penny!
Always wanted to get a portable hard drive. So did some shopping online and read all reviews. Decided to get the WD160GB. I got this device at a good deal from Amazon.com and it arrived on time as promised. So the first impression was impressive. This device works without any installation, use it just like any other flash drive. There's some kind of set up which takes less than a minute. So getting started is that easy. The speed of read and writing is, I would say, amazing for a drive of this capacity. Have to wait and see if this gets affected with decreasing storage size (as I load the memory with my files & documents). There's a little vibration during read & write process, but very low level that it can only be felt by touching the drive during read or write. So don't bother about other comments that claims this device vibrates. All machines however small it is will vibrate no matter what. Overall, it worth my money.
Rating: - Powerbook users beware!!
Though WD makes no mention of the fact, 17 and 15 inch powerbook G4's do not have powerful enough USB ports to support this drive. This is a known issue, and yet WD has not decided to include a Y-adapter (included with many other brands of portable drives) so that you can use two usb ports to get enough power and bandwidth for correct operation. Plugged in my brand new drive this morning, and all it did was "click..click..click.."; no spinning, no nothing. Worthless.
If you are a Powerbook owner, get a portable drive with FIREWIRE.
Rating: - Great quiet drive... no external power brick!
I really like this drive. I now have two of them. They work right out of the box, no setup or configuration necessary. No external power supply, it runs right off the USB power. Perfectly quiet and very small.... what's not to like?
Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive Reviews
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