Western Digital WDMT5000TN 500GB My Passport Studio Portable Hard Drive

Western Digital WDMT5000TN 500GB My Passport Studio Portable Hard Drive

The Western Digital WDMT5000TN 500GB My Passport Studio Portable Hard Drive, with dual interfaces, is formatted for Macintosh, features a clever capacity gauge, and comes with a soft drawstring bag. Use this portable drive to back up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures and back up your laptop. The included FireWire 800 interface is perfect for Mac computers and a USB 2.0 connection for convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #49 in Personal Computers

Brand: Western Digital

Model: WDMT5000

Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

Box Contents - Portable hard drive, FireWire 800 cable, USB 2.0 cable, Drawstring bag, and Quick Install Guide

Formatted HFS+ Journaled for Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.2, can easily be reformatted for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000

Fully compatible with Apple's Time Machine backup software

Dimensions - Height 0.59 x Length 4.97 x Width 3.13 (15.0x126.15x79.5mm)

Weight - 0.40 pounds (0.18 kg)

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Customer Reviews

Fast and Spacious!
This little drive absolutely smokes previous WD external hard drives I have used. It's very fast, even with USB connection, let alone Fire Wire. I did have to re-format it for my PC, since it comes formatted for Mac.
After running an HD Tune Pro "error scan" on it though, it shows to have one bad or damaged block (at about 64000 MB position right out of the box. This hopefully isn't large enough to affect its performance, but I wish it wasn't there. It seems to work perfectly otherwise. I can sure use the storage space since I shoot a lot of digital images in RAW format with my Canon 40D digital SLR. I would highly recommend this little jewel to anyone looking for a small, portable, yet large (memory space) external HD.

WD 500gb passport studio 2.5 drive FW 800

PROS:
This has spacious 500GB drive. Very quiet. Small size. I really like the LED that indicates operation and rough capacity taken. The FW 800 is much faster then USB, that was my reason to get this drive.

CONS:
the provided cables are too short for me, so i had to use longer 3rd party FW 800 cable. The case is plastic. i would like aluminum.

Price: $158.99
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