First, I've used many drives from various manufacturers. For external backup/sync I've used 3, the Maxtor/Seagate Black Armor in 160gb and 320gb and the WD Passport Essential 500gb WDME5000TN. The Passport is small and attractive but it seems to be seriously flawed. The sync software placed a copy of the files on my originating HD in addition to the external drive. So, for 100gb of sync I had another 35gb placed on my originating drive. The sync process took about 24 hours. So, I thought that I could live with that if it were a one time thing and future sync would be updates taking a fraction of that time. Not so. I changed a few files only and did a resync next day and 12 hours later it was still doing the sync. I suppose this is not such an issue for a desktop, but it defeats any and all advantages of a laptop with this type of performance. In comparison, the BlackArmor drives did not add the 35gb to my originating drive, took minutes to accomplish the same task (okay, maybe an hour) could sync AND backup, and resync was almost instant. In addition, the BlackArmor drive has a much more secure hardware based encryption and even has an included storage pouch (the WD has none). Please believe that you will be much happier getting a drive other than the WD WDME5000TN. You may pay a bit more and get a bulkier drive by opting for something else, but taking up huge amounts of space on your originating drive, taking hours to accomplish a sync and resync is simply not acceptable to me and shouldn't be acceptable for anyone else. I hope this helps in your decisions. Get more detail about Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDME5000TN (Midnight Black).
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