Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDE1UBK10000U
• Released on: 2009-03-18
• Dimensions: 1.42" h x 4.92" w x 8.03" l, 2.25 pounds
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Manufacturer's Description
WD Elements USB 2.0 external hard drive is an easy-to-use, reliable way to add more storage to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving or backing up your photos, music, video, and files. It's preformatted for immediate use so there's no software or CD to load. The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connection allows for speedy data transfer at rates of up to 480Mbps, so you won't waste time waiting. The compact, durable metal case provides extra data protection helping keep data safe from loss.

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Customer Reviews

Great Capacity. Fantastic Price. Slow speeds!
Blinded by the cheap price. I impulse purchased this product.

I felt a lot like the dude in the Burger King advert. The one where he dives through the shop window, leaps into his car & tells the misses "Go GO GO" LOL. because a price this good feels like your stealing. However..
I have several External Hdd's including a WD 320GB passport & a 500GB WD My Book so trust me the WD elements 1TB is the slowest of the lot.

Would I still purchase this product knowing about the slow data transfer..yes.
The data transfer rate maybe slower than the average bear but I haven't noticed any speed loss acessing the data on the drive.
I have Hi-Def Movies on mine that i acess using the PS3 without a single problem.

Pros

It's Solidly built.
Works out the box (FAT32) tested with Vista, XP, PS3 & OSX 10
It's cheap!
& It's quiet

Cons

Slow data transfer speeds
Power supply
Ugly power supply

Great
I have six of these, and I've ordered two more. I use them with a Popcorn Hour A-110 media player.

They're not the quickest USB drives in the whole World, but they're reliable, reasonably priced, they look nice, they're quiet, they run cool, and they're stackable - if, like me, you have a spiralling media habit, when you need to add another drive you can pile it on top of the others.

A testament to how good these things are - they're really, really hard to find. PC World, Currys and places like that get stock every two or three months, then they sell out in a couple of weeks. Even Amazon, with their enormous bargaining power, have to wait two months for stock... think about it!

Neat and quiet
I use this as my main hard drive and use two 1TB Maxtor hard drives as backup. To be honest, there's not much to choose between the drives. Both makes power themselves on and off when required and have lightweight switched mode power supplies. The Western Digital drive is slightly smaller, is metal rather than plastic, and has the LED activity indicator at the rear. The Maxtor has a slightly longer USB cable, and has the activity LED is on the front. If I wanted another drive, I'd probably go for a Western Digital, but there isn't much in it.