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WD Passport Portable WDXMS2500 - hard drive - 250 GB - Hi-Speed USB

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This Western Digital Passport Portable WDXMS2500 is a 250GB, external hard disk drive.Compared to other external hard drives on the market, it is midpriced at around $155.This hard drive connects to a system though a USB 2.0 port.This is a 5400 rpm drive and has a 2MB cache.

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    Summary: alaTest collected and analyzed 93 reviews of Western Digital WDXMS2500TE from international magazines and websites and compared these to 102205 reviews for other Hard Drives. Experts rate this product 78/100 and users 74/100. The amount of rated reviews for this product is too low to calculate a reliable alaScore™.

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  • maximumpc.com

    Editors' rating: 80

    Summary: The Passport is one of the speediest portable hard drives in the size-of-your-hand category, pulling in a wonderful 34.7MB/s average read speed during our synthetic HD Tach benchmark test. OWC's 160GB, 7,200RPM Mercury On-the-Go (reviewed August 2007) ...

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Description: This Western Digital Passport Portable WDXMS2500 is a 250GB, external hard disk drive.Compared to other external hard drives on the market, it is midpriced at around $155.This hard drive connects to a system though a USB 2.0 port.This is a 5400 rpm drive and has a 2MB cache.

Pros: Has a 250GB capacity, which is larger than some similarly priced hard drives.By way of comparison, the typical cost of a product with this large a capacity is $270.

Cons: Has only a 2MB buffer, which is smaller than some similarly priced hard drives.For example, the Ezquest Pro Audio Plus Firewire 800/USB, a 250GB hard drive at around $145, has a 16MB buffer.

Suitability: Suited for those who don't want to take apart their computer just to add more storage?just plug it in.

Value: Overall, this hard drive's features are as expected for this price.However, you would typically pay around 25% less to get a external hard drive having a comparable data transfer rate.

CNET's Product Briefs are generated by a software tool that combines product specifications with knowledge of our editorial experts. They do not reflect hands-on assessment or labs testing. For more information about how we create Product Briefs, contact us.

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