Never let it fall on the floor

Western Digital external HD is excellent, I have no complaints about the driver itself. It works great, you can have part formatted in NTFS and part in FAT32 (to use it in your PS3 you must have it at FAT32 and create a directory called PS3 - all caps). It's great for backinp up files, moves and so on.
HOWEVER, NEVER EVER let it fall on the floor. My girlfriend accidently dropped my drive that was in the bed to the floor. It stopped working. The height wasn't not more than 30cm...the good news is that I use the 1 year warranty and the drive was restored, so it fully functional.
My recommendation is that you use it very carefully and don't let your girl/wife/children play with it! ;) Apart from that, it is all good!

Good Pocket Drive

With storage size increasing more and more, I now have twice the storage with this little pocket-sized device than I do on my laptop. I wiped all the backup software and just use it as another place to store files, if you want to do the same formatting is not a problem and it functions like just another drive on your computer.

This is great for moving large files like .iso-images and others which might be larger than a FAT32 formatted usb thumb-drive can handle. Plus, with 500 GB of storage, you can do the above and still keep your most important files as backup either in a different folder or even another partition.

Overall, it's a good bet for medium-sized storage with great portability.

Teriffic USB drive!

I just cannot help but give this small drive (in measurement size, NOT in capacity, as it holds 500GB!) my greatest praise. It is an ideal USB drive for portable use. I use it for holding my large collection of music FLAC files that I can move from computer to computer, and also can stream the music wirelessly to my main large system. The sound is nothing but teriffic, the drive is silent, and the response is very fast. I am considering buying a second one of these, I like it so well.

Western Digital My Passport External Hard drive

This external hard drive is extremely light and extremely small, excellent for those who are always on the move.
For it's unbelievably small size, 500gb is absolutely amazing to be fit into such a small thing.

I love the fact that there is tonnes of memory that I can use.
I also purchased this because of it being small, as I will always be needing my work wherever I go.

I recommend this to anyone who is looking to buy an external hard drive.

Excellent storage drive

Pros: Powered solely off of USB. Small size. Fast and Large storage capacity.

Cons: Cable is rather short.

Other Thoughts: I got this HDD soi can back up my own personal Wii games and my DvDs movies. It goes everywhere with me