WD Passport HD Advice

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 23:07

Western Digital Passport 160GB USB 2.0 Portable Drive (WDXMS1600TE)

Link

What drive is inside this? IDE or SATA.

Are they easy to open? No special tools?

Thanks

shr3k · 19 Nov 2007 at 23:19

Its a 2.5" Scorpio hard drive.

Saw it on cnet.

"The 160GB "Scorpio" 2.5-inch hard disk drive is Western Digital's most recent release to the mobile market. This year, for the first time in the company's history, less than 50 percent of its shipments are desktop drives, thanks to the large demand for consumer notebooks with smaller, mobile hard drives."

Link: http://www.news.com/2300-1042_3-6217776-1.html

longshanks · 20 Nov 2007 at 11:56

Is it IDE or SATA though?

Stelly · 20 Nov 2007 at 16:47

I would email WD... the last two that I purchased were IDE but they were the older versions...

Stelly

longshanks · 21 Nov 2007 at 00:03

Think i will buy a separate WD Sata 2.5 and enclosure.