My Review of the Western Digital My Passport Essential External Hard Drive

December 27, 2009 by admin 

I am a member of the Amazon Vine program. Each month Amazon sends me items to review on their site. This month I received the Western Digital My Passport Essential 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive

I have long been a fan of Western Digital’s bus powered external drives and own a bunch of them for my online video news startup. Their drives are workhorses and have withstood a ton of abuse my reporters have inflicted upon them. What I liked most was the drives’ simplicity – plug it in, format, and get to work.

Unfortunately Western Digital has made a mess of their newest generation of bus powered hard drives by forcing users to install unnecessary drivers and the addition of a persistent `virtual cd` that can only be removed through a lengthy process hidden on their support site.

Read my full review at Amazon.com to hear my experiences using this drive on both Windows and Mac.

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