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Western Digital Passport® (WDXMS1600) 160 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive
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Price Range $105 - $175 Featured Merchants
Product Description High-performance portable storage for your Mac® and PC. Light and rugged, it’s easy to carry and no external power adapter is needed. Comes with sync & encryption and Google™ software.
Highly portable drive with decent software
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Written By jdproconsumer Date Written Apr 15 2007 Summary I have been looking for a good secure portable storage solution and find this drive to be pretty good. Here are the benefits of this drive: * Very light weight and very small. I also own a Seagate FreeAgent Go and a Lassie USB external hard drives,... Strength Extremely light and small. Decent zero-footprint software. Weakness Fairly difficult to use encryption for moving files from one PC to another. Bottom Line This is one of the best portable drives on the market. It's very small and light, uses regular USB cable and has decent zero-footprint software. Middle of the Road
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Written By kurt_g Date Written Dec 29 2007 Summary I got the WD Passport as a Christmas gift from my wife. I use flash drives pretty extensively in my job; she thought the WD Passport would have a place in my repertoire. And the short answer is yes, it does. Flash drives offer easy... Strength fast, easy to set up, has software, uses standard USB A-to-mini-B Weakness software isn't that great, FAT32 formatted Bottom Line The WD Passport is a good buy if you want portability and don't need the tiny form factor of a flash drive. The encryption/sync software is a bonus. Western Digital Passport 160GB used on an iMAC
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Written By wisnguy Date Written Apr 01 2008 Summary I bought the Western Digital Passport 160GB portable hard drive to use in a graphics class. The graphics class uses all iMAC computers so I needed something that I could store all of files as I go back and forth to class. I checked out other portable... Strength Light weight and easy to use Weakness Cannot use the software that came with the hard drive. Bottom Line Easy to use with an iMAC and very affordable. Affordable Passport to Media Portability
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Written By timtimes Date Written Jan 10 2008 Summary Solid performing drive that appears to function well across all the platforms I've tried it on. I purchased this drive today to accent my recent eeePC purchase (Epinions review:... Strength Extremely small, USB powered, large capacity, cross platform compatibility. Weakness None to date Bottom Line Great value for the money for a device with such a diminutive form factor. Works on my Mac, Windows, Xbox 360 and Linux based eeePC. Great portable size, works pretty good
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Written By reslyder Date Written Jan 20 2007 Summary I bought this because I wanted a high capacity external drive that was still small and light so I could take it anywhere. I do use it with a Mac and it works fine, however it is a newer Macbook Pro, so maybe older macs have problems. I do think you need... Strength small, very easily portable, looks nice and sleek Weakness USB transfer is a little slow Bad sectors on drive
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Written By murgen Date Written Nov 13 2006 Summary I bought this drive, and after copying about half of my files onto it, it wouldn't accept anymore, giving me an error saying "Disk cannot find the sector requested." Tech support confirmed that this was a hardware issue, and so I replaced it with the... Strength Extremely easy to use, small, USB powered. Weakness Doesn't work. Two in a row have failed within 2 days. Not Mac compatible from package
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Written By jpizagno Date Written Dec 13 2006 Summary This 160 Gb Passport drive from Western Digital does not work with Macs using the cable provided in the package at purchase. This drive does not have an independent power source, and relies on the USB port for power. The USB port on Macs... Strength small size, with a slick black color. Weakness does not work with Macs with the Good Portable Hard Drive
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Written By bvidya_sagar Date Written Dec 21 2007 Summary These days there are many portable hard-drives available in market from different manufacturers varying in different capacities. What made me buy this particular model is the trust in Western Digital products. 160 Gigs is the maximum capacity available... Strength Compact, USB powered, Cable connected Weakness None Easy Off-site backup
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Written By tgale47 Date Written Jul 13 2007 Summary I'm very pleased with the drive's size, and the included synchronization software. I did buy the optional carrying case to protect the drive and house the very short usb cable (My guess is that it's short to avoid power loss). If something were to... Strength Extremely portable, fast backup, convenient software. Weakness Very short usb cable. 2 Units from Best Buy Didn't work right out of the Box
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Written By jdrothman Date Written Feb 11 2008 Summary When I plugged the Passport into my mac powerbook for the first time it did not mount at all. It made a clicking sound, lit up, and that was it. I brought it back to best buy and they kindly exchanged it for me no questions asked. When I plugged the... Strength Pretty, Small, Rubber Feet, buss powered Weakness Did not work at all. Very very unreliable!  |
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