I bought this to store my music and photos off-site. Thus, the drive is not in use - it just sits in a drawer at work. For this, it is perfect: inexpensive, large capacity, small.
I pulled the material from my iMac/Leopard and have used it successfully with my HP Mini 1000 netbook/XP SP3 - the fact that it is formatted MS DOS/FAT 32 means that it is a perfect drive to use when transferring iTunes between operating systems - a "Mac compatible" drive would be a problem with XP.
Since I don't write to it all the time, I have no real sense of speed - but moving 187 GB of music to it took a perfectly reasonable amount of time.
Maybe it is me, but I just wouldn't think of using a tiny drive like this for mission-critical data - they're just not designed for that, no matter what anyone tells you. Every external drive, no matter the size, has a high failure rate - just read the reviews here on Amazon - and back the stuff you REALLY care about to an SSD or a DVD...Get more detail about Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDME5000TN (Midnight Black).
No comments:
Post a Comment