The Passport Portable USB hard drive from Western Digital is easy, light, and compact. It is USB bus powered and requires no external power adapter for added portability. It weighs only a few ounces and holds tons of valuable data. The glossy-black enclosure with soft-touch base is designed to protect your data. Instantly add portable storage for all your business files, music, video, and games with a WD Passport Portable USB Hard Drive. Up to 320 GB, this compact drive is powered directly through the USB cable. Lightweight but rugged - WD understands the importance of the information on your drive so they"ve designed an elegant and rugged enclosure to protect the 2.5-inch WD hard drive and the data on it. Includes sync & encryption, and Google software. Sharing large files between office and home, between PC and Mac Back up your existing notebook hard drive for extra data safety Compatibility - Works with PC and Macintosh - Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later Unit Dimensions - Height 0.59 x Length 5.11 x Width 3.14 (15.0x129.78x79.78mm) Weight - 0.231 pounds (0.1048 kg) Western Digital 3-Year Limited Warranty

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1) POWER: The drive requires at least 650mA"s. Suggest getting the booster USB cable from the company if your laptop is like my old one which only supplies its USB with only 500mA"s. Otherwise, this drive is AWESOME!!!
2) Great little drive!: Just got this WD 320 passport. Great little drive. Works as advertised. Plug&play in USB port. No additional power cable required. Using on IBM Thinkpad T42 with Windows XP. Reformatted NTFS. Highly recommended!
3) Don"t blame the drive. Blame the laptop: I have the 250 GB version of this drive and it works really well on my IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X61s. It is inappropriate to give the drive a low rating when it doesn"t work because the problem is with the laptop, not the drive. Instead of complaining, get a good laptop as even the best are very inexpensive these days compared with even a few years ago. Don"t be penny wise and pound foolish. If you want to get a Thinkpad, monitor the site www.ecoupons.com for periodic discount coupons.
4) Very disappointed, it lacks a power cable it needs: Needed more disk space so I decided to shell out two hundred dollars for the drive. On the box it said no power cable necessary on most systems and I have never used a power cable on my laptops with Seagate and LaCie portables. So let"s see... On one laptop it didn"t work at all saying it needs more power. On my powerful laptop it worked, but died while coping files... (more power needed) great now I"ll have a corrupted filesystem. Thanks alot.

Of course you"d think that for two hundred dollars you"d get a power cable (as Seagate and LaCie and others provide free). Wrong. You"ll need to order it from their website for a nifty 18 dollars and wait a week to get it. Need it sooner? Sure for an extra 15 dollars they"ll expedite it.

5) Exactly what I was looking for: I was looking for a small portable storage solution that would fit into a safety deposit box, and the 320GB Passport worked out perfectly. It runs with just one USB wire plugged into my desktop PC. I reformatted it as NTFS since it is shipped as fat32, and I then used Acronis Trueimage to back up my hard drive partitions onto the 320GB Passport. I am relieved knowing that my data is now safe.

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