WHAT: Western Digital My Passport Essential SE
COMPARE TO: Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini, LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra
PRICE: $300 (1 TB); $200 (750 GB)
FUN FACT: Started in 1970, Western Digital made most of their money from pushing calculator chips before moving into OEM storage in the '80s.
WHY COMPLEX IS CO-SIGNING IT: Because when your computer crashes, and it will crash, it's going to hurt bad when your realize you just lost your term papers as well as your music, video and photo collections that you've been compiling for however many months or years. Western Digital's My Passport Essential SE will help you sidestep such a disaster. Their newest mobile hard drive comes in 750 GB and 1 TB (terabyte) capacities wrapped in a sleek package that checks in at less than half a pound in weight, less than an inch thick and only 5 inches wide. Thanks to a USB 2.0 connection you get crazy fast transfer speeds (480 Mb/s) and the ability to power the drive solely with the USB connection, making it that much easier to just toss in your backpack and go. We recommend going for the gusto with the 1TB—it may sound like too much space, but that's like saying Kim Kardashian has too much ass, it's just silly.
CLICK HERE TO BUY THE 750 GB MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL SE FOR $169
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swizzy August 17th, 2009 at 11:23 PM
i need this in my life asap.
Kittymat October 15th, 2009 at 07:33 AM
Well the product does not live up to expectations. 1) they use a proprietary plug - very poor, it keeps crashing out as it looses contact 2) Need loads of power, and as it has a special lead you cannot use a standard USB B double header. 3) The worst of all, you get the backup software, on every computer you plug it into, you cannot format the drive to get rid of it - it is awful, corporate Malware at its worst! Buy the bare drive and put it in a standard enclosure if you have to have one this big - otherwise there are far better / equivalent products available
Phil December 27th, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Just my humble opinion, and nothing technical at all. Just wanted to share my experience with the WD My Passport Essential (not the SE)... I'm sure the two devices are not actually the same, but some might find value in what I went through, especially since it echoes a bit what Kittymat said about the plug loosing contact and a bit about the Malware... http://sonotatechie.blogspot.com/ Thank you