Binding: Electronics
Brand: Western Digital
EAN: 5051749307931
Feature: -
Hard Disk Size: 500 GB
Item Dimensions: 173862220606
Label: Western Digital
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Model: WDE1U5000U
MPN: WDE1U5000U
Publisher: Western Digital
Release Date: March 25, 2007
Studio: Western Digital

Features:

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The Elements external hard drive is the perfect storage solution, designed for file sharing and archiving. Thank to its built-in 500 GB memory capacity, the Elements external hard drive can store audio, video and photo files in a flash. Its USB 2.0 connection offers a high data transfer rate and is entirely Plug & Play. The Elements external hard drive is the perfect high-performance storage unit for all of your data.

Box Content:

• External 3.5" USB 2.0 hard drive
• 6 foot (1.8m) USB 2.0 certified interface cable
• AC adapter with power cord
• Quick Install Guide

Rating: - Doesn't stay the course
Bought this device just over 6 months ago and it worked brilliantly, data transferred quickily and easily and then one day I booted up my pc and discovered this drive was not showing, went through all the logical procedures, checked the cables were properly connected and checked the fuse... I even tried connecting it to a different computer but still nothing!
Fortunately Western Digital accepted that it was still under warranty and have agreed to check it and if necessary replace it, but with ... Read More

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Rating: - ok so far
Only used it for the first time yesterday and it has done a few odd things. It appears to have crashed while transferring data a couple of times. It seems to have also removed some of the icons from my ibook g4, though the data is still there and not that difficult to put them back.

On the positive side, it is small and light and has certainly transferred the data from my mac which was one of my concerns. I haven't needed any extra cables for this.

I wanted to get one that ... Read More

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Rating: - Can't really fault 25p a gig
Just plugged it in, you don't have to do ANYTHING. Straight away an icon pops up and literally 10 seconds later you can just be pulling files across.

I bought it because I was completely wiping my comp (had a particularly nasty virus) and starting again. Copied my entire music collection onto it in one go (20 odd gig), as well as loads of video files and other general stuff. Nothing went wrong, it all copied, wiped comp, rebooted, dragged everything back across, done. Conclusion: happy, fast, ... Read More

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Rating: - Surprisingly tiny and good quality.
Runs straight out of the box no problems with windows xp. I'snt really 160 Binary gigabytes it's 160 Decimal Gigabytes.

This is a bit of a marketing rubbish it means that your computer will detect it as 149.05 Gigabytes. which is still pretty awesome for the price.

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Rating: - Died in a few months.
Had this product for 8 or so months. Worked well though a little noisy. One day all of sudden - dead.
Tried to power up again but after promising noises soon ground to a halt. I now have a Black La Cie which I only switch on every couple of weeks to keep the heat down - so far so good. Seems to me a lot of these external drives have problems right across the board if you read other reviews. Don't make the mistake I made of storing certain files only on backup alone. When they're gone they're gone.

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