Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDME3200TE
• Released on: 2008-02-12
• Dimensions: .59" h x 3.13" w x 4.96" l, .40 pounds
• Hard Disk: 320GB

Manufacturer's Description
Simply Elegant - Combine a beautiful new gloss-black case that fits smoothly in your hand and pocket with mega-capacity for all your digital content and the world's most popular portable drive just got better than ever.

Easy - Installation is a snap because you don't really "install" this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in

Smart - Powered by the USB bus. No separate power supply is needed

Big capacity that fits in your pocket - This compact drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces and with capacities up to 320 GB, you can take tons of photos, videos, files and music with you wherever you go

Synchronized and secure - WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug My Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption. (Windows only)

Includes Google software - Search your drive, manage your photos, and simplify Web searches with included Google software. (Windows only)

Compatible with Windows and Macintosh computers;

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Customer Reviews

It's great, really it is!
Well, i've just read all of the 1 star reviews and i'm finding it hard to agree with a lot of them. I've had my drive for 6 months now and, until recently I had no problems. Plug and play it definitely is. I never bothered with the sync option. It's just drag and drop. I tend to flip between a desktop and a laptop and don't have a problem - dead easy.

About a month ago my desktop started losing contact with the drive every few minutes and I started to get a bit worried. Maybe the 1 star guys had a point. I went to the WD website and ran some diagnositics. You don't need to be techy to do this. Unfortuantely the drive passed their tests so I rang to arrange a warranty swap. The chap on the end of the phone had sorted me out within 2 minutes. He took some details make/model etc then asked me about the fault. It turns out, and this will help some of you out there, that if there's not enough power coming from the USB the drive effectively goes to sleep until you call it again. I had it plugged into a front USB port on my desktop tower but the WD guy told me to plug it in the back and the problem has gone away.

So, easy to use, good help on the web and good phone support. I'm happy, hope you will be to - worth buying.

SUPER SLOW, NAFF PROGRAM, LOOKS GOOD!
FOR PHYSICAL SIZE AND LOOKS, EXCELLENT AND VERY PORTABLE, FOR USABILITY A BIG FAT ZERO. SO SIMPLE TO USE THERE ARE NO INSTRUCTIONS APART FROM PLUG IN AND FOLLOW SCREEN MENUS. UNFORTUNATLEY THEY COULDN'T MAKE A SIMPLE TASK MORE HAP-HAZARD. "SYNC'D" MY DOCUMENTS ONTO DRIVE, SOMETIMES THEY WERE THERE OTHER TIMES NOT. HARDLY RELIABLE INSPIRING IF THE IDEA IS TO ERASE OFF COMPUTER ONTO DRIVE TO FREE UP SPACE. "SYNC'D" C DRIVE- TOOK OVER 10 (TEN!!!!) HOURS FOR ABOUT 25 GIG, NOW,SOFTWARE JUST HANGS, RANDOMLY TERMINATES OR FILES APPEAR/DISSAPEAR AT WILL.
CONCLUSION- FORMAT DRIVE FROM NEW AND JUST USE AS AN ADDITIONAL "DRAG & DROP" HARD DRIVE. SPOKE TO SEVERAL PEOPLE WITH ONE OF THESE AND THEY ALL DO THE SAME. IT WILL SAVE YOU ALOT OF TIME AND GRIEF.....HONEST!

Adequate connection cable not supplied.
The cable supplied with this product is a single USB cable (the kind that everybody has at least three of). For some people that will be enough, because their computer will supply it with enough power through that.

Some (older, say c.2005?) computers will not do this. They require a special Y USB cable. I think this one is adequate, but there are others on Amazon: Ex-Pro USB Cable - Dual Power, 2 x Type A to mini B, USB 2.0, 1m. Provides additional USB power to high draw devices using MiniB (Eg External Hard Drives etc..)

A standard USB only lets out 500mA, this requires 1000mA. Some Computers don't limit the USB to 500, so for those the cable supplied is adequate.

As for the quality of the hard drive, I can't say, because I can't use mine until I get the cable. It looks fine. But that's not enough. Needs to be supplied with the right kit.