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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WD2500KS - A decent all-around drive
This is a decently fast drive that runs a bit warm with little spindle (motor) noise.
It is NOT “whisper quiet” as it has plenty of audible seek noise when accessing the drive. Unlike some other brands, there is no Acoustic Level Adjustment software available to reduce seek noise. This is [...]
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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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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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It’s fast. Solid return for money spent.
Pros: It’s power consumption is lower. It fit into my laptop case just fine. I would say boot speed is faster than a Raptor. I have not experienced any of the stutters or delays associated with these sorts of drives at this price point.
Cons: It’s [...]
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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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Made my Mac upgrade very smooth!
I bought this enclosure so that I could use the drive from my old Mac (beige Powermac G3 desktop) as an external HD on my new Mac (iMac G5). Compared with networking the two computers together and using file sharing to transfer my old data to the new machine, [...]
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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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