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Aug 11 500 GB WD Portable Hard Drive for $102.99
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Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive WDME5000TN (Midnight Black)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #14 in Consumer Electronics
- Size: 500 GB
- Color: Midnight Black
- Brand: Western Digital
- Model: WDME5000TN
- Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
- Format: CD
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 2.00" h x 6.25" w x 7.50" l, .65 pounds
- Memory: 128000MB DRAM
- Hard Disk: 500GB
- Processors: 1
- Native resolution: 640x480
- Display size: 669.2913385827
Features
- Box Contents - My Passport Essential 500GB Portable USB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install guide
- 500GB Hard Drive Capacity
- Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install.
- Powered by the USB bus. No separate power supply is needed
- This ultra-portable drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and holds tons of valuable data
Reader Comments (2)
Hey guys. Love the show and I listen to it constantly. I even have my sons listening while we are running errands in our truck. (Seven year old boys geeking out to a HT podcast? Cool) Anyway... I am in the process of building a media server from a Dell PC and want to copy some of my DVD collection to the hard drive. It was always my understanding that copying DVDs was a little shady. I believe in fair use and don't see a problem with it as long as there is no file "sharing" going on. (Note the quotes) What software do you guys reccomend for ripping DVDs on the PC platform? I am also wondering about using external HDDs for the storage. Right now I have a WD MyBook 1TB drive attached via USB for backups on three PCs on the house and have loads of riim available on it for the DVDs. In the near future I plan on adding two 2TB internal SATA drives to store the media, but is the external a viable option short term?
Thanks for a great show and keep up the great work.
I'd recomend dvdshrink just make sure to go into the options and turn off the 1gig file size limit, otherwise it will split up movies into like 4 files.