| Value |  4.5 | | Performance |  4 | | Ease of Use | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4.5 |
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5 of 5 Great purchase so far! Sunday, July 13, 2008
Dare from Morrisville, NC
I bought this as a backup hard drive after running out of space on my old 80GB external hard drive (which I happened to have purchased for the same price 2 years ago) and to use for DJing for now. Used it last night for the first time and it worked great! Love the sturdiness of the drive too.
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5 of 5 Great seller Tuesday, June 03, 2008
ashatton21@hotmail.com from Mount Laurel, NJ
Quality item, good price, quick delivery. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Perfect value drive Monday, May 26, 2008
Jacob from Little Rock, AR
I've had this drive now for about 3 months and it works absolutely perfectly. Originally, I couldn't decide between this and the Seagate 500gb as they were around the same price. After reading the reviews for both, and now having personal experience with this drive, I have to say I am VERY glad that I chose this one. The transfer speed is decent, and it doesn't run too hot. If you're looking for a cheap, reliable backup drive.. this is the one! Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great product! Easy to use! Friday, May 23, 2008
Richard from Round Rock, TX
Very easy to use.
Purchased about one month ago to back up my digital pictures. Just Plug in and copy the files.
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5 of 5 465GB is same as 500GB Thursday, May 15, 2008
anonymous from USA
I see this over and over again: people not understanding that 500GB as advertised by the drive manufacturer is same as 465GB as reported by the operating system. They both represent the same amount of storage. The difference is that they are reported in different units of GB. The drive manufacturer uses 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes while the operating system uses 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. (Why the OS uses a funny number you ask? It is based on binary numbering system. You practically have to be a computer scientist or engineer to FULLY understand why this is the case.) So to convert 500GB, as reported by the drive manufacturer, to the value reported by the OS, you divide 500 by 1.073741824 (since 1GB reported by OS equals 1.073741824 GB reported by drive maker) and, voila, you get 465GB as calculated and displayed by the OS. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Very Good Tuesday, May 13, 2008
A Customer from Santa Fe, NM
Fast shipping, good product! Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Not bad..but u get a notebook for 100 bucks which Monday, May 12, 2008
shetti@gmail.com from Boston, MA
I've used this for a month now. Has not given me any kind of problems yet. Touchwood.
Pros: Easy to use, pretty silent as well. Shipping took a little longer than i expected, but im ok with that (coz opted for free)
Cons: The power cable did not seem to be of very good quality. No switch on the device to turn off the power of the drive.
Overall : Not bad, but i think i would have preferred the WD Notebook (500 GB) over this one. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Easy to install, easy to use Friday, May 09, 2008
A Customer from Auburn Hills, MI
I would definitely recommend this product. Did not find a single problem yet. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Big drive, low cost, easy to use! Tuesday, May 06, 2008
David Thomas from Dallas, Texas
This external drive provides a half of a terabyte of storage for very little money, in a software/hardware package that is simple to install, uncomplicated, and a pleasure to use. It's also small and very portable.
With this much storage, backing up large drives is easy, and because it's easy to carry from one computer to the next, I can copy my entire C: drive onto the portable drive, tuck it into my briefcase, carry it home, and have all of my files available.
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