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Monday, December 03, 2007

WD Elements 500GB External Hard Drive

Elements External 500GB Hard Drive
RPM: 7200
Cache: 8MB
Interface: USB 2.0



Just bought this inexpensive external USB hard drive. It's a fair unit for the price. Here's my review:

Pros

  • silent
  • convenient rubber grips
  • cheap (99€)

Cons
  • Lack of technical data (neither RPM nor cache)
  • 8MB Cache

HD Tach just refused to run on Vista, so I had to turn the compatibility mode (to the default, XP SP2, if I remember correctly). Read a consistent 33MB/s sequential read.

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