Note Power Requirements
I bought this drive, saved the included software to another computer, then deleted it from the WD Passport….then reformatted the Passport. It worked fine on both my desktop and my laptop even though my USB ports (on both desktop and laptop) only provide 500mA of power. This drive, like most [...]
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Using for music streaming
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This maxtor Shared storage Plus is compatable with the ROKU Soundbridge music streaming device. I bought both together, and filled up the maxtor with mp3s. When I turn on the ROKU, it finds the Maxtor drive on the network and streams up the music via the ROKUs wifi [...]
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Western Digital Passport - A Great Value In Portable External HDs
The Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Midnight Black) is the largest capacity in the portable essentials line-up. This comes in a variety of colors including Pink, Real Red, Artic White and Intense Blue. They say that this [...]
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Nice drive but picture misleads
Having dealt only with seriously ghetto enclosures prior to this one, it was nice to get a drive of quality heft and construction. Install was a snap, and I got no complains on performance. Only quibble I have is that the drive I got is a more subdued blue, [...]
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Decent RAID/NAS With A Few Drawbacks
(Note: My review is Mac based, but the Western Digital ShareSpace 4TB 4-Bay NAS RAID supports PCs and Linux as well.)
My history with SOHO NAS so far hasn’t been all that good. The WD ShareSpace is the third NAS type device I’ve owned. The previous two (a 1 TB [...]
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Great product, works just fine, only one small complaint
I’ve wanted an external hard drive for months now, and I thought for sure I’d get one of the Western Digital My Book drives — very cool book-like design. But after reading all the middling reviews on the My Book drive, I finally elected to look [...]
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Mac OS X 10.5 and your external drive…
I ordered this drive because of the capacity and the price figuring that when it arrived I would simply reformat it as HFS+ and plug it into my Macintosh Network. The problem was that every time I tried to use Disk Utility to reformat it I kept getting [...]
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Differences between it and the Essential
The reviewer who said that this product is identical as the WD Passport Essential (other than the soft finish) is incorrect. The two big features that are included with the Elite are backup software and a capacity gauge. You also get remote access software (no biggie for me). [...]
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