Western Digital - Elements 120GB [PICTURES]

[Shaye87]

It's light, well designed, cheap, easy to use... does exactly what i've expected, not as fast though, but it doesn't really matter, i use it for between formats, and to store some other files basically, not on a daily basis.




Vista versus XP compression, 2.6 GB rar file.



WINDOWS XP PRO SP2:

write - 01:36

read - 01:06



WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE SP1:

write - 01:57

read - 01:20


on my system:

CPU: Intelֲ® Coreג„¢2 Duo E6600
CPU cooler: Freezer 7 Pro
Graphics Card: Asus Geforce 8800 GTS 640 MB
Memory: 4GB DDR2 667MHZ Twinmos
Hard Disk Drive: Western Digital 250GB SATA2
Mother Board: GigaByte 965P-S3
Power Supply: Enermax LIBERTY 500W

Pictures:

 

[Cyber-Mav]

excellent review that, bought a few caddys over the years for lappy drives but none of them managed over 25mb/s sustained and the hard drives themselves could deffo do around 40mb/s so it was the caddy thats the limiting factor.

that drive you have is awsome and looks like its riding the usb2 interface to its limits which is brilliant. may consider getting one of these for some quick file transfers from 1 pc to another.

can you give more details on the power consumption of the drive? does it have a cable that needs 2 usb sockets? 1 for power and another for data+power? or can it work from just 1 usb socket?

some caddys are fussy and require a loop through cable which hooks up to a second usb port on some pcs to get additional power.

would love a caddy that only needs a single usb port on every pc i use.

 

[AbsenceJam]

Not sure of these ones but the WD Passports only need the one port.

By the way those speeds are the same as any other USB2 drive/enclosure.

 

[Shaye87]

1 simple usb cable and nothing else

you can read more here:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=328