| Western Digital Elements 2 TB External Desktop Hard Drive (USB 2.0, Black) | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: Personal Computer
List Price: £119.99
Buy New: £92.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6 x 4.9
MPN: WDBAAU0020HBK-UESN
Model: WDBAAU0020HBK-UESN
UPC: 718037759487
EAN: 0718037759487
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Compatible operating systems: - Windows 7/Vista/ | | • | Source data-sheet: ICEcat.biz | | • | Hard disk interface: USB 2.0 | | • | Data transfer rate (max): 480 Mbit/s | | • | Power requirements: 100-240 VAC 50-60Hz |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Western Digital HD Elements2TB USB 20 BK UK WDBAAU0020HBKUESN Storage External Hard Drives
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Great no nonsense drives July 23, 2010
Mr. D. A. Kernaghan (Norn Iron)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
After using the My Book series for a number of years, WD decided to force their own back up software onto my computers. After searching hi and low for a replacement to the My Book series, I settled on these cheaper drives to back up my back ups!
No crappy, buggy software means they worked perfectly with decent transfer rate over usb2 so I'd definitely recommend!
Excellent. July 21, 2010
Ash (England, Manchester)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As I've come to expect from WD, these drives are excellent, I have two 2TB ones (this new model) and two 1TB ones (the old 'elements' model that was longer with the rubber edges on back and front).
Was a big fan of the older model of 'elements' drives, and so was concerned they had tried to profitize and so made a cheaper more tacky 'elements' model. Anyway, its not the case, solid as a rock, reliable, quiet, quality feel, and looks better too. Buy them now!
Cracking drive Gromit ! July 18, 2010
Nevyn
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Had this drive for a week now and impressed by how silent it is. Copied over 150 GBytes of MP3s on the first day. Total time 2.5 hours but then what do you expect over USB 2.0, mnaged a sustained speed of 13.5 Mbps. At the end it was barely warm and it was silent throughout.
Great little backup drive.
Neat little drive July 16, 2010
Greg F (West Midlands)
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I brought 2 of these recently to increase my storage as I have a load of ripped dvd's, HD and music content. My previous drive was a Samsung story 1.5tb external drive which I'd filled.
These drive came pre formatted for windows(can't remember if they were FAT32 or NTFS). Either way I'm using a Mac so had to format them before use. Formatting was easy and quick with OS X 's disc utility .
What I'm doing now is adding content to the 1st drive and using Carbon Copy Cloner to backup onto the 2nd drive on a schedule.I've moved all the stuff I'm not so bothered about/probably wont watch again onto the old Samsung drive and disconnected it.
These drives are very neat, look great stacked and are near silent when running. There's no power button on them so power down when not in use, this would be the only negative I could find as there is a slight delay if they have powered down and you access them again. Not a deal breaker for me but you should know about it. The Samsung has a power switch on front to turn it on, I suppose this has it advantages in terms of no 3 second delay on access after a period of inactivity but I guess the Samsung uses more power if its spinning more.
Transfer times are as expected from a USB drive It was an overnight transfer for 1.4TB of mixed data MP3's, MKV's and MP4's.
I have my Mac streaming from the 1st drive to a WDTV Live via home plugs, HD streams with no network issues whatsoever, I even streamed from drive 1 to WDTV while it was transferring a data backup to drive 2 simultaneously.
Hope this helps
Regards
Greg
nice little/ big drive July 30, 2010
Kouyioumtzis (London, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
i like the glossy black design. makes it look good quality. very quiet, low heat, in fact deosnt feel hot at all. you hardly know its there.
had to format it for Mac, but thats standard and no problem. takes two minutes.
sleeps nicely when the mac is turned off, unlike my seagate drive on FW800, that stays on!
my only gripe with WD ext USB drives is that they intentionally dont state the buffer size (could be anywhere between (8MB-64MB these days), or spindle speed. even on there own website they dont provide that info. unlike when you buy internal drives they give you all the tech spec. do they think people who buy external drives dont know what they are looking at?
but am assuming its 5400rpm, and not 7200rpm, and 8MB buffer. ie the lowest spec possible. otherwise why else would they not include that info? they really should be more up front about there products and not hide the truth!
it is a huge capacity, and i am using it as Time Machine Back up drive, so the (slower) speed hopefully wont be an issue. the write speed at the moment appears to be standard for USB2.0, so cant really complain.
i have s lightly older 1.5TB WD USB 2.0, that i bought earlier in the year, and its appears to be on a par with that, in terms of performance. though i do prefer the new glossy look.
btw, i paid £95 for it through amazon, but it seems to have gone up now? must be all these kind reviews making them sell out!
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