WD My Passport 1TB Portable Hard Drive - Black

Title : WD My Passport 1TB Portable Hard Drive - Black
ASIN : B007UOW818
Description :

Technical Specifications: ATT.EXTERNAL_HARDDISC_CONNECTION_TYPE: USB 3.0 · Colour: Black · Dimensions: (L x W x H) 111 x 82 x 21 mm · Interfaces (type-maintain without number): USB 3.0 · Memory capacity: 1 TB

Description: WD PASSP. ESSEN. 1TB WDBBEP0010BBK 3.0

Features :

• Capacity:1 TB
• Interface:USB 3.0
• Height:1.9 cm
• Features:Hardware encryption
• Width:8.2 cm

List Price : £129.90
Price : £62.68
Saved Price : £67.22

category: Products
brand: Western Digital
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.5
Review : Compact fast high capacity
This little drive is amazingly small for any drive, let alone a 2TB capacity drive. Its basic functionality is trivially easy to install on a Windows 7 PC. Just plug it into a USB 2 or USB 3 port.

Being made by Western Digital, this drive should be reliable. It is in a sleek black casing, slightly larger than my hand and about the same thickness.

It comes with its own encryption software that can be set up very easily so that the drive can not be decrypted without a password, but you can set it to be tied to your own windows user account, so it works with the account, without asking for a password each time.

On the downside on my low powered laptop, the encryption/decryption software seems to take a large percentage of my processor, hence the the loss of a star.

It is pretty quick when connected to a USB 2 port, but when connected to a USB 3 port on a fast PC, it is faster than the current generation of SATA II internal drives, and almost as...