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Western Digital Elements 1.5TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive - Black
 
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Designed with the same commitment to quality that made WD external drives the number one drives in the world, Western Digital's WD Elements Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drives are the right answer for simply affordable add-on storage. Just plug it in to a USB port and start saving your photos, music, video, and files. Experience plug-and-play simplicity - just connect the power and plug it into a USB port to instantly add more storage to your computer. Designed to save power – the Elements hard drive turns on and off with your computer. It also enters idle mode when not in use. This external hard drive utilizes a WD drive with power-saving WD GreenPower Technology and an EnergyStar compliant power supply. Packaged in a minimized eco-friendly, recyclable packaging made from recycled materials, it is good for the planet. More than enough storage for all your needs. Filled to capacity, your WD Elements hard drive can store either up to 300,000 digital photos*, up to 375,000 songs (MP3)*, up to 37,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)*, up to 110 hours of Digital Video (DV)*, up to 570 hours of DVD quality video* or up to 180 hours of HD video.* Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors. Box Contains # USB 2.0 external hard drive # USB cable # AC adapter # Quick Install Guide

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Some geeky stuff
 
Review Date: June 30, 2010
Reviewer: V. Gorelov, UK
Got two of these today and both seem to work fine.

Since some of the more technically minded people like me might want to know more, here's some stuff I figured out so far:

Computer relevant capacity is 1.36TB.
It consumes 10W when in use and 9W when you're not doing anything with it. If you unplug the USB cable, power consumption drops to 4-5W.
Peak write speed seems to be somewhere between 27 and 28MB/s, which is about half of what your typical internal HDD runs at. That's about 15 hours for a full format or to fill up with files to the brink. Speed drops to around 20MB/s when copying smaller files like .mp3 music.
Comes pre-formatted with NTFS and no bundled software.
Very quiet operation.

There was a review saying that the power/USB cable ports didn't match up perfectly with the holes in the case. I can see how this can be true, as the port position seems to be flexible, perhaps to accomodate some sort of shock protection. If this were to happen, it's easy to move the ports back in place with a needle or a pen without having to exert any force at all. No biggy.

There's also a small white LED next to the power/USB ports indicating activity. It's much brighter than LEDs used in your typical keyboard and might be somewhat irritating. Easily coverable with a small patch of duct tape howerver. Won't tear off or spoil appearance because the LED is in a cavity on the back side.
Superb little external HDD
 
Review Date: June 20, 2010
Reviewer: John Nunn, Coventry, U.K.
I initialy got a number of these drives for backing up my Small Buisness Server. They just plug in and work, the transfer speeds are very good, a full backup of the serever (~750GB) was done in just under 2 hours and the incremental backups (~25GB) take less than 20 mins. I now have a pair of these drives at home one for my iTunes directory and one for a backup of the iTunes directory.
The drive its self is a fairly innocuous looking black box, with two sockets on the back one for power and the other a USB connector, there is also a drive activity LED on the back of the device. They can stack fairly well and I have had three of them on top of each other without any stability issues. The drives are very quiet and don't generate a lot of heat.
An excellent external HDD
 
Review Date: June 27, 2010
Reviewer: Andrew, Devon, UK
Previously used a Freecom 500 aluminium case external HDD for backup, using Ghost 15.0. Good and reliable, but needed more capacity. Read all the reviews on Amazon and elsewhere on every manufacturer. Chose the Western Digital 1.5TB on specification, price, reviews and WD's reputation. Very, very pleased with it:- quiet; cool running; no gimmicks, it just gets on with it. The auto power management/sleep works well. Highly recommended.
1.5TB - Great value, great product!
 
Review Date: July 22, 2010
Reviewer: N. Nihal, London, UK
Excellent value for money... fantastic for storing and backing up important files. Does not have a power switch on the box itself so it will switch on when connected to the computer and will switch off when safely removed from USB port. But that is a very minor issue. Overall a great product!
this is a neat little hard drive!!
 
Review Date: April 13, 2010
Reviewer: Bethany Annabell Nicholass, london
this is a very good little hard drive indeedand i really recomend it.
it's bilt well and the download speed is pretty good too its dosent have a big flashing light flickering all the time.
i know now it will be a long time till i ever buy a different hard drive than this one and i just bought second one.
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