Cheap Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDME5000TN (Midnight Black)

I was a bit disappointed to plug the hard drive in and just find 298 GBs of space on it, instead of the advertised 320. Then I did some googeling and found out that this is a scam run by all the hard drive makers when they say they count in the decimal system (1GB = 1000 MBs)whereas the rest of the computer world works in binary (1GB = 1024 MBs)...This is they very very cheap way of fooling customers which I didn't like...

Secondly this particular brand of hard drives has a problem in trying to remove them safely, which I found out after I bought this product...you need to shut down the computer to remove it or remove it "unsafely"...

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