Western Digital WDMLZ5000TN 500 GB USB Hard Drive

With this portable hard drive, you cna now carry your files or literally your office everywhere. Ideal for people who travel a lot or one who works at multiple places or just for the busy busy executive or student who work in school, work and home.

Definitely a great buy!

no issues marvellous seller. Replied ot all question right away. Correct information provided. Must use. Quality equipment. Most sales end late at night so I have to stay up late but that is not a seller issue.

It work as describe I just as new I needed a backup & free up space on my laptop that was getting full and have fear of a crash in the future.
I love the small size
I didn't like that 40GB of space is used up by pre-installed programs most were 30day tryout.
I would recommend its a must have for assurance purpose in case of lost info in the event of a crash its nice to know you havent lost it all.

The item arrived on time, as expected, in excellent condition. I would recommend the seller to anyone.

Love this drive it is so compact and fast. I have the studio edition for mac and it comes with a firewire. I can transfer a gig is a minute or less. If i ever need more storage i am buying more of these. They are the best.

This WD USB external harddrive is fast and reliable. It's compact size a big plus. It is very quiet and transfering data back and fort is quik. I originally bought an IOMEGA 320GB external HD when I recieved it, It was slow, heavy, bulky, had a big transformer I had to plug into an outlet finally it took forever to boot. I bought a WD 320 GB first, I was so imprest with it's performance that I purhased a 500 GB WD USB external harddrive also. Now I can have two backups for my computers. That's a peace of mind I can use.

this product is perfect, the mail also is fast it is a good hard drive, i often use it , it take something be easy

The item was shipped fast and was very good. It was as exactly described with the cover. It was nice shopping!!

Well, this is the second hard drive that I bought off of eBay. The first broke on me and I found out it was a stolen one :-/.

But aside from that I love my portable drive. I needed something with alot a memory but took up little space because being in college I carry everything around with me in a huge purse.

There are many brands of external hard drives, but I chose Western Digital because I trust the company and know that they are well known for there hard drives and memory devices.

I purchased the Elite line of there external hard drive line because it was right around the same price as the Essential, but it had more features such as a back-up system and a capacity indicator.

I would recommend this prouduct to anyone who needs more space than their computer or laptop can give them or you just have a bunch of things to store like movies/tv shows and pictures, like I do.

Just Make sure if your purchasing, make sure it is factory seal, brand new in box, because sometimes it could be a stolen one and if something were to happen to it WD support will not be able to help you.

The Good
Some good applications are given with product
The backward compatibility with usb 1.1,1.0 is nice
The product was all I expected and more.

The Bad
USB cable is a bit short.
May not work with some laptops because power deficiency.
The Sync software has been given bad reviews for not been intuitive

I chose the Elite version of WD's My Passport. Its main differences are, AFAIK, the material used in coating (more pleasant to the touch than the one used in other My Passports), and the capacity indicator that shows how much stuff there's already on your drive.
First I must say that bus-powered solutions are my all time favorites. I had one older 120 GB Barracuda drive lying around and every time I needed to move large amounts of data between computers in my home network I had to perform a rather complex procedure (and yes, they are networked, but it's taking just too long to move several gigabytes of data using the WIFI speeds). I had to install it into the rather cumbersome external enclosure, hook up the adapter (also means I need to find a free outlet), connect it to the computer via USB cable... just TOO boring.
This drive, in comparison, are sleeky little bastard that does not need any other power except USB's own 3 or so volts. Just plug it into USB port and voila!
I didn't really use the loads of software that came preinstalled on the HDD, note that it takes several gigs of space, which means less space for your own usage. Perhaps this software may be erased and the drive will turn into ordinary 2.5 External HDD, I don't know, haven't tried it yet.
The software seems somewhat useful (there's lots of redundant applications though, like some Google aps). I only used the Syncronization software to make a backup of all of my work files, it also uses AES encryption to provide an additional peace of mind.
One sidenote - the drive comes partitioned using FAT32 filesystem (supposedly to maintain compatibility with Macs), which means you cannot store files larger than 4GB on it. If you primary computer is PC, you may reformat the drive using NTFS and use some special utilities to access the HDD on your Mac (google them).
The drive (at least Elite version) also comes bundled with a soft pouch for carrying - makes the drive look very "homey".
Overall, a money well spent.

Easy to set up and use, lightweight, great for traveling. I bought this for my work computer now I need to buy one for home. Love it. Highly recommend.