Western Digital Puts 320GB In Your Pocket December 05, 2007
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Just last week Buffalo rolled outs its tiny, 320GB MiniStation TurboUSB portable hard drive and now Western Digital is doing the same.
The WD Passport Portable Drive 320GB is priced a little cheaper than the Buffalo drive at £140, which is a damn fine price for a huge drive, contained in a tiny body. The Passport measures 13 x 8 x 1.5cm and weighs just 104g. That means it’ll sit in snugly in most pockets and won’t you be smug knowing that your carrying around almost one-third of a terabyte of storage.
"The need for travel-friendly storage devices continues to be an area that is growing immensely with the advent of rich media content generated by consumers," said Jim Welsh, vice president and general manager of WD's branded products group. "It's not only music that's consuming space on desktops. Higher resolution pictures and HD videos eat up storage very quickly so we're excited to make a portable 320 GB solution available for consumers on the move."
The drive comes with the WD Sync software for simple back-up of PC files and the drive is protected by 128-bit encryption. I want one for Christmas.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
This is one cool device. Hard to believe that just a short while ago, even having 320GB was a privilege, let aside taking it with you everywhere you go in a neat package. Things are just getting better ...
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this is an amazing product,
just over a year ago i bought the 120Gb version of this and it works perfectly, and really fast aswell, it's also very durable and can withstand a lot of bums and drops and is all together probably the best example on the market!!!
and 320gb! when would you ever fill it, my college only gave use of around 120 for the use of around 1500 users, and ok thats not including software, but so what!! 320 is amazing