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Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM USB 2.0 Essential External Hard Drive
 
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Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM USB 2.0 Essential External Hard Drive

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Technical Details

  • Backward compatible with existing USB 1.1 ports
  • The fast and easy way to add instant high-speed storage for both desktop and notebook systems
  • Hot-swap capability allows easy connection of a new peripheral without powering off the computer
  • Designed with a WD Caviar 7200 RPM hard drive and a high-speed USB 2.0 bridge for maximum performance
  • Compact and elegant design, easily stackable
  • Backed by WD's commitment to data protection and award-winning customer support and services
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Product details

  • Item Weight: 2.2 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 2.7 Kg
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  • Item model number: WDXUL2500BBNU
  • ASIN: B00076WEQA
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 12 Sep 2001
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,417 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
The Western Digital USB 2.0 is an external hard drive with both Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces. It is ideal for backing up valuable data, music, photos and movies; this drive has USB front and rear ports, for easy connection of multiple USB peripherals, a front-mounted power button with a Safe Shutdown feature. With the Western Digital External USB Hard Drive you add more storage to your PC. The dual-option backup button allows you to choose how and when to back up data, either automatically or when they deem necessary. The device can be position horizontally or vertically.

Western Digital's USB 2.0 external hard drive makes it possible to add reliable, high-performance storage instantly to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug into a USB port or USB PCI adaptor card and within seconds back up your valuable data or store large multimedia files. Multiple drives stack together and can be routed through a hub, enabling you to further expand your storage capacity. Designed with Western Digital's WD Caviar 7200 RPM hard drive and a high-speed USB 2.0 bridge, this external hard drive provides maximum storage performance.

You can make room for the massive amount of data required by today's storage-hungry digital devices like digital cameras, digital video (DV) camcorders, and MP3 players. Archive valuable data from notebooks and back up your existing hard drive for extra data security.

Box Contains:

  • Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM USB 2.0 Essential External Hard Drive
  • Installation and management software
  • Step-by-step illustrated instructions
  • USB Cable
  • Mains Adapter

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252 of 256 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Massive & Reliable, 16 April 2005
By S. Naqvi (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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So it finally came to the time when my hard drive could hold no more. I've always wanted an external hard drive since it's extremely useful as a storage space, but never felt the need until recently. I have a lot of multimedia files that requires a large amount of space, so I was already researching the hard drives. However, I also didn't want to spend a large amount of money since I'm still a student, so I kept around the 100 mark.

After doing a lot of research, it was clear that Maxtor was the leading company in this market. But there were a lot of other makes that sounded interesting and offered similar deals. Still staying around the 100 mark, I found this Western Digital product with a massive 250GB capacity. It's a great deal for the price, and has USB 2.0.

I prompty purchased it and received it quickly. It's simply a matter of plug and play, and works on both Windows and Mac machines. Once I had it going, the transfer rate was steady. 200MB took around 10 seconds to transfer, and that's a good rate for the large files.

So far, I haven't had any problems. You can set the hard drive vertically or horizontally - doesn't matter which way since it doesn't affect performance. It includes a manual and the extra accessories for setting it up in the positions. Along with that is the USB 2.0 cable to plug into your computer and another wire to plug into the mains.

The only problem I can find is for Windows 98 users. You'll have to download from the internet the correct drivers from the Western Digital website and install them since the package doesn't include a CD-ROM. For newer operating systems, it just plugs in and works (on both Windows and Mac, you can switch all the time).

On the whole, it's a great deal for the space you get and works reliably - I haven't had a single problem. Once you have it set up, you'll definitely be using it. As far as I know, Amazon doesn't offer a cheaper hard drive at this capacity making this a great purchase for those who need it.

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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Value for Money, 15 Jul 2005
This is cheaper than buying a separate hard drive and enclosure!

It's formatted capacity is actually 232gb and the drive is pre-formatted for Windows using the FAT32 system (with instructions for Mac). That means it's ready to use straight out of the box. Simply plug it in and it's recognised by Windows XP. Instructions for downloading drivers for Windows 98 are provided, as is a UK Technical Support phone number.

However, FAT32 cannot handle files larger than 4gb such as camcorder video files. I therefore had to reformat the drive to NTFS which took 3 1/2 hours! Remember to save the Autorun folder and file as all information is deleted during reformatting.

The drive comes with stands for horizontal and vertical use.

It makes very little noise - just some clicks and whirring which is reassuring as you know that data is being written.

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it!, 5 Feb 2006
By A Customer
Today the device just died! and all my data with it! after a few months of use.

One simple advise:

If you value your data, don't buy it!

Unfortunately, amazon does not have a "zero" star, otherwise that is what it deserves.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Another Power Failure
When I first purchased the Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM USB 2.0 Essential External Hard Drive it froze and failed within 2 months. Read more
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Only had it 6 months when it packed up. Had 4 years of digital video on it but thankfully the new power socket worked from Western Digital. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars It works with no fuss
I've been running this unit with my NSLU2 small NAS device for almost a year now - providing disk for file shares and also for a mail system that I run. Read more
Published on 26 May 2006 by Mr. D. C. C. Keating

1.0 out of 5 stars A hard lesson learned
I bought this hard drive to store all the data from my work notebook when I changed jobs. I then used it to back up all the data from my home PC, "just in case"... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for people needing portable storage.
After searching for a new harddrive for my laptop, I decided to purchase the Western Digital 250GB harddrive after having read several reviews on the net, so far I have not been... Read more
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