Western Digital (My Passport Essential) Portable Hard Drive

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 18th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Last week I went out and bought a new external hard drive :D . I had been meaning to get a new for a while now but just didn’t get round to it. So on my way home from college I went into PC World and bought a new one.

I already have an external hard drive, however it requires a mains adaptor, so it is not the best "portable" hard drive. So the new hard drive had to be USB powered.

After a while of looking at the various hard drives available I knew that the Western Digital was definitely the best. The one I bought is called Western Digital (My Passport Essential) Portable Hard Drive it looks really nice with a gloss finish.

I got the 250gb version for only €59.98, which is far cheaper than what I paid for my last one that required mains power. My old external cost about €120, basically double the price! But that is just because it has been so long since I bought my old external hard drive. Prices were definitely going to drop over the years.

One thing I hate is how hard drives are advertised, they say that you will have 250gb however you really only get 232gb! I have no idea what is taking up the other 18gb!i have formatted it a few times and still it is only 232gb, this was the same with my old hard drive, I think that the storage space that we actually will get should be on the front!

A good thing to note about this hard drive is that it can transfer data really fast! I transferred 8.05gb in only 2 and a half minutes!

Also I finally found out how to get the larger hard drives to get picked up by the PS3, all you have to do is format it to FAT32 :D . Just thought I would throw that in there, it is great, now I can play all my music and videos on my TV through my playstation!

**UPDATE**

Ok I found out why I am missing the 18gb, it is all to do with the American version of gb, in America they see a gb a 1000mb however really a gb is 1024mb. So those extra 18gb being advertised are not real! If it was the standard 1024mb as a gb then I would have had my full 250gb :D .