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Binding: Electronics Brand: Western Digital EAN: 0718037120294 Feature: • High performance USB powered 250 GB ultra-portable hard drive with sync and encription software and Google software• Ideal for storing and backing up photos, videos, files and music. Label: Western Digital Manufacturer: Western Digital Model: WDXMS2500ETE Publisher: Western Digital Release Date: 2007-06-14 Studio: Western Digital
Features • High performance USB powered 250 GB ultra-portable hard drive with sync and encription software and Google software• Ideal for storing and backing up photos, videos, files and music.
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Lightweight Mega-storage Comment: My old 120GB portable HD was full and needed replacing so after a little research I chose to buy this portable HD and I wasn't disappointed. 250GB is massive for a 2.5" drive and while it is expensive in comparison to 3.5" powered HDs (you can buy at least 500GBs for the same price), portable HDs always are. It looks sleek and classy. Unfortunately it's a bit of a fingerprint magnet (black, glossy) which made the lack of a case or sleeve for the drive very disappointing. It weighs about the same as my wallet and has been sturdy (dropped it a couple of times already and it's had a few knocks in the old laptop case, but no faults as of yet)and in my experience WD HDs can generally take a fair amount of clumsiness and are top in terms of lastability. It's definitely worth the extra expense over a 120GB Portable (presuming you need the space). Fast, pretty and sturdy. Just wish it came with a case/sleeve. Customer Rating: Summary: "Good price Good drive." Comment: I bought this to accompany my 2 year old Acer Aspire 1654WLMI Xpsp2 laptop and am very glad that I did. It's small enough to carry around anywhere and outperforms even some internal laptop HDD's with it's 5400rpm, meaning it's ideal for game intalls. For example I cuurently run COD2 and UT2004 with no problems at all which is great as both these games take up around 5GB's each. No install disk is needed as the drive intsals itself and comes equiped with great WD software. The drive comes pre-formated as FAT32 but iv'e heard that it can be easily re-formatted to NTFS within winXp, but personally I haven't bothered with this and can safely say that the drive performs very reliably and quickly. In short a great drive for all Xp laptop owners, the only faults are the lack of a longer USB cable and carry case but for a whopping portable 250GB drive with a name a huge as Western Digital for under £100 who could complain? Sorry that I havent specified Vista compatibility as I don't own a Vista PC. Customer Rating: Summary: Hard to beat especially for this price! Comment: Does what it says it should and is small enough to carry around no problem. Works fine using it on both a macbook and a pc. It's cheap and good quality. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Little-Big Drive Comment: This drive is fantastic. 250GB, small case and ha worked on all the PCs I use and every laptop I tried it on. Build quality is good, no problems with the drive. Will buy the 500GB version when available. Customer Rating: Summary: Drive failed, wouldnt buy another Comment: I had a lacie 250gb external but that had a power supply so wanted something slicker, this was fine but 3 months down the line and I dont know why one day it just failed. Read that there were alot of problems being reported on the net and these related to the interface not the drive. Decided to cannibalise it and try a different drive caddy, no joy, drive is dead as a do-do. Fortunately I didnt lose much, just as well you cannot rely on these! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / CapacityGB250Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Average Seek Timems12Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Spindle Speedrpm5400Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Buffer SizeMB2Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Widthcm8Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Depthcm13Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Heightcm1.5Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Weightg105Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Interface TypeHi-Speed USBTechnical DataStorage / TypeHard driveTechnical DataStorage Hard Drive / Form Factor2.5 "Technical DataHeader / Product LineWD Passport PortableTechnical DataHeader / ModelWDXMS2500Technical DataHeader / CompatibilityPCTechnical DataHeader / Country KitsMiddle EastTechnical DataHeader / ManufacturerWestern DigitalTechnical DataHeader / Packaged Quantity1Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Hard Drive TypeExternal hard driveTechnical DataExternal Hard Drive / Power SourceUSB bus