Product Description

The Passport Portable USB hard drive from Western Digital is easy, light, and compact. It is USB bus powered and requires no external power adapter for added portability. It weighs only a few ounces and holds tons of valuable data. The glossy-black enclosure with soft-touch base is designed to protect your data. Instantly add portable storage for all your business files, music, video, and games with a WD Passport Portable USB Hard Drive. Up to 320 GB, this compact drive is powered directly through the USB cable. Lightweight but rugged - WD understands the importance of the information on your drive so they've designed an elegant and rugged enclosure to protect the 2.5-inch WD hard drive and the data on it. Includes sync & encryption, and Google software. Sharing large files between office and home, between PC and Mac Back up your existing notebook hard drive for extra data safety Compatibility - Works with PC and Macintosh - Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later Unit Dimensions - Height 0.59 x Length 5.11 x Width 3.14 (15.0x129.78x79.78mm) Weight - 0.231 pounds (0.1048 kg) Western Digital 3-Year Limited Warranty

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3870 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDXMS3200TN
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 320GB

Features

• Box Contents - WD Passport portable hard drive, USB cable, Quick Install Guide, sync & encryption and Google software
• 320GB capacity
• Ultra-portable, fits easily in your pocket or purse
• Powered by the USB bus, no separate power source needed with most systems
• Use it for carrying important files and e-mail between work and home or on the road

Customer Reviews

Love Hate Relationship
I've owned this product for several months and would like to say that I hate it and love it, all at the same time. Let me explain. I love that it's 320GB. I love that it doesn't require an extra plug to get it up and running. I love that it's small and portable.

HOWEVER, what I hate is that often my computer doesn't recognize it, or that it randomly decides to disconnect and reconnect to my computer (in a virtual sense, not physical). This is particularly annoying when I'm listening to music or moving files around. My solution at this point is to physically disconnect it and connect it until the connection sticks.

My fear is that one day I will not be able to access anything on this drive. So, I'm forced to back everything up, perhaps wise, but that means now I have to have 640GB instead of 320GB for the same files.

When I first bought this hard drive I thought "WOW! I can make this like a virtual computer and have access to my files anywhere there is a computer." This has not been the case. It seems the more I disconnect it and reconnect it on another machine, the more problems I have. So, I have to be selective. I don't just take it anywhere "just in case."

So in conclusion, I have to say I love that I can throw this thing in my purse and take it with me to work or vice versa instead of hauling around an entire laptop. I love that this little hard drive has more hard drive space than my laptop. But, it's unreliable, more than normal pieces of technology. So, if you're like me and have a desktop or another hard drive that you can back this up onto or don't wish to use it for your only copy of important documents, then I would go ahead and get it. Otherwise, you're just waiting for a disaster to occur.

Didn't even last 6 months!!!
I bought my WD Hard Drive around February 2008, formatted it, used it heavily to back up my precious data, had to re-format it twice since I initially bought it and around July, it finally kicked the bucket.

I'm no expert on tech stuff, but I'm definitely no novice either, but I know crappy hardware when I see it, or in this case use it. The flimsy plastic case should of been a dead giveaway, but I bought into it and continued to trust it.

My next drive is going to be an Iomega FireWire drive.

Product worked as advertised
Works fine. I purchased for backup purposes. I am not very tech oriented so my son had to show me how to use it, but it is fairly simple once you get it set up. There is a manual to print off and tech support is offered. You might want to uncheck the extra software offered (Google toolbar and some photo editing software) unless these are something you really might use while installing. Wish software companies would explain this a little better to those of us without superior computer skills.