Rating: - I love this little disk drive
It is very portable, reliable and easy to use (I did reformat it to NTPS). It has taken more than one fall to a hard floor and keeps on working. It runs fine off my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop and my wife's Dell Inspiron 8000. I intend to get another one. All ten thumbs up! :-)
Rating: - This is a good Hard-disk and it is useful
If you are looking for a light and small, but which has big storage capacity, then you might want this one. This one would be best if you are going to have one which is able to be moved easily, I mean, it is light, so you can carry it wherever you want. So.. You might want to have this one if you have lots of stuff which is valuable for you.
Rating: - As good as they get
LOVE it! With 9-10 machines that I need to synchronize data between, some laptops some desktops, this is the right external HD and the price is certainly right, having broken below the $1/gig point that external drives seem to have been stuck at.
It's not blazingly fast, but fast enough to work from.
It's quite quiet and the design is exceptionally slick with the rubber cover over the usb port.
My only complaint (and it's a pithy one) is that the usb cable shipped with the drive is no bigger than about 4 inches.
Rating: - Power Hungry Device overloads USB ports
Western Digital is well known for quality hard drives, so when I saw the 160gb Passport on sale, I got one without hesitation. I had no problem using it on my home PC. It did NOT work on my Dell M60 Laptop, nor any of a half-dozen other laptops I tried. It would overload the port and a warning message indicating USB power surge/overload would pop up on the screen. Since my primary intended use was to transfer files from my laptop to my home PC, I returned it to the store for another model (Firelite). Other reviews indicate that this is not a "rare problem" (as WD would tell you). WD sells a cable that combines power of two USB ports (an extra $9.95 on it's online store) that solves this problem and that of a very short 8" USB cable supplied. Of course, who wants to tie up two of the limited USB ports on a laptop? They could provide an optional power cable using a PS2 port like my Firelite did. Yes, the drive is attractive, fast and very quiet, but until WD gets a handle on the high power demands, I can't recommend it.
Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive Reviews
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