Western Digital External Hard Drive Review

After some searching I luckily fell upon a pretty good deal on TigerDirect.ca (first time buyer there) for the external hard drive. It's the My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive (400GB model). I was looking for two things: decent capacity and USB-powered, both which apply here. It's my first portable external hard drive so here are my 2 cents on it...

• It's about 20% bigger than the iPod Touch, and maybe 3 times as thick...Easy to carry around.
• It's plug and play with Windows, so I started transferring files the second I plugged it in the USB port.
• Seems to transfer roughly 1 GB/minute (I didn't use a stop watch, but this is what Windows says...Seems to be a reasonably close estimate)...It's fast enough for my uses.
• It works with the Xbox 360 no problem; movies and songs play right off it.
• The drive is formatted in FAT32 (so file size limit is 4GB). This format works on the Xbox 360. I read that re-formating to NTFS and the Xbox 360 won't recognize it anymore.

My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive

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There's not much more to say except that only time will tell if this is a good purchase...Hard drive failures seem to be the deciding factor whether it's a good one or not. It comes with a 3-year warranty which is good...Hopefully I won't ever have to use it.