WD My Passport Essential 1TB SE Review


Posted on March 10th, 2010 Filed under Gadget, Review




WD My Passport Essential 1TB SE, Small and Practical

The need for large storage media is increasing. Western Digital offers more than that. Through one of its newest product, the producer from the United States is also offering practicality. Products mentioned are My Passport Essential 1TB SE. Shown with a very small size, but large capacity power of 1 terabyte (TB).

With a capacity for it, definitely a lot of documents, mp3 files and high quality movies that can be accommodated. If only 1 file mp3 size 4MB, then the total songs that can be stored is about 25,000.

Prior to Western Digital (WD), there had been another vendor who spawned the first external hard drive with 1TB capacity but is slightly different product.



For external hard disk, this product is classified as the smallest in its class with a length of 110mm, height 80mm and its thickness is only 18mm. Small enough is not it? So that can be incorporated into the pocket.

In addition to the fairly small size, these products are also more practical because it requires no additional power supply. Whether it is through an adapter or through USB cable. So that is very helpful for netbook users with a number of limited USB port.

Performance Self-sufficient

As an external hard drive with large capacity, the ability of this product is also sufficient. Moreover, if only used for data backup or transfer media files simply.

DetikINET tests with copying a file size of 5GB it only takes about 3 minutes, the average speed was pretty good.

In the HD Tune test application example, this product achieved an average rate for the ability to 29MB/sec Read and Write 14MB for the ability they have.

For an external hard drive, WD My Passport Essential 1TB SE competent enough to meet everyday needs. It’s just a set price for this product is still relatively high, which ranged in USD 250.

Pros:
+ Practical
+ Light
+ Large capacity

Disadvantages:
- Still expensive

Benchmark Results:

HD Tune
Read
Minimum: 22.8MB/sec
Maximum: 30.6MB/sec
Average: 29.1MB/sec

Write
Minimum: 6.5MB/sec
Maximum: 24.6MB/sec
Average: 14MB/sec

HD Tach
Quick Bench: 26.1MB/sec
Long Bench: 31.7MB/sec

From: detikINET.com

In reviewing this game, detikINET-based system: Intel Core i7 965, Intel DX580SO, Digital Alliance GTX 275, Corsair HX1000W, Corsair Dominator 6GB kit, ASUS VH226 and operating system Windows 7

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