I'm very happy with it, plug it in, the computer recognizes it and assigns it a drive number. Transfer rate is a little slow so look for something faster if you have, for instance, lots of photos larger than 8 mp, but it suits my needs, is very compact, good price, fits in a pocket, and has a lot more storage capacity than two previous Passports I bought for which I needed to purchase a power supply. I didn't want to bother to install the software (which might speed up transfer rate some), transfers fine with WinXP Explorer and it plugs right into my camera transfer cable which is always ready. No need to buy an extra power supply, it powers itself. Everything on my current hd (40 GB) and 2nd internal drive (80 GB) will fit on this little device with room to spare. A word of caution if you are using these passports, pay close attention to what you are doing as I lost some original photos through carelessness some time back. Care is especially needed if you are adding data to what you've previously transferred as you update and add new files to your main internal drives in your computer. Only use these for any type of data file (photos, movies, text, html, etc.); I would not recommended to back up your installed program software or OS files. You can work from and download from the internet data directly to/on the passport. If you don't know how to make folders and navigate through your file system, recommend you get somebody to help until you know what you are doing. That would be true for any backup device. 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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