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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: HP Pocket Media Drive 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black/Silver) (Personal Computers) I received this drive today (Nov. 10, 2009). It is a 5400 RPM drive and uses .6 amps operating and 1 amp on spin-up. Apple's disk utility calls it a "WDC WD50 00BEVT-22ZAT0 Media", which is no doubt manufactured by Western Digital. However, a search of WD's website returned zilch so I assume it's strictly an OEM product for HP. It comes with a case and a USB cable. The cable has one connector for the drive and two (2) connectors for the computer. Again I assume this is for extra power on computers that limit USB power but on my MacBook Pro it runs fine with only one connection. It comes formatted for Windows, but of course no problem formatting it for a Mac. I ran a benchmark on it and got the following maximum results:
Random write - 27.40 MB/s @ 512KB block size Random read - 33.11 MB/s @ 16MB block size Sustained write - 27.04 MB/s @ 512 KB block size Sustained read - 34.79 MB/s @ 16 MB block size This is not too shabby considering it's...Read more 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: HP Pocket Media Drive 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black/Silver) (Personal Computers) The product was new in the box and the price and service were terrific. It works perfectly and I would highly recommend it for an easy backup solution. It also comes with cables for USB2 connection as well as a case for portability and can be used even if you do not have the HP slot. 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: HP Pocket Media Drive 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black/Silver) (Personal Computers) Compact size, easy to use plug & play HD. Doesn't need external power, its powered by the USB cable. |