Under Windows 7 to handle quickly and easily

The External Hard Drive> My Passport Ultra
The device is 11 x 8 x 1.5 cm in size, sees the black dot grain classy and comes with a black, satin gloss retention pocket with closure cord and an approximately 45 cm long USB cable with plates-page special connector supplied. After I use the appliance directly on the notebook or the stereo receiver, I think the short cable handy. In other cases, application may be necessary on the PC-side end an Extension Cable. The special cable is also in the included storage bag still loose his place.

The USB port on the left long side in the amount of the label also feeds the current needs of the hard disk so that it can be dispensed with a power supply unit with additional cable clutter, which I find very comfortable. The operation is indicated by a continuous blue LED on the long side of the connection, while read / write operations are indicated by a flashing. In the hours of MP3-continuous operation, the device is so that the USB ports are not overloaded by supplying equipment probably less than lukewarm.

After first plugging in both a Windows 7 notebook and an Onkyo stereo receiver have recognized the power off and on the pre-installed directories displayed behaved passively and without any uncontrolled already Autoruns would have run. One of the directories in the user guide in pdf file, German on 92 pages and in 23 other languages. Even later in the plate with or without software installations can use on the computer.

Of free memory contains the disk, formatted in a single partition to NTFS, at delivery 931 GB (almost exactly one thousand billion bytes). Approximately 380 additional MB are occupied with files (which you of course can immediately delete the foreign-language manuals and either the Mac apps or Windows apps, what about an additional 150 MB of free space brings).

The transfer of 1.0 GB of MP3 music files (148 files, folder 9) took over the USB 2.0 port on your notebook 82 seconds. For my purposes this is quite sufficient, although the panel (but not my PC) already configured for USB 3.0 and thus is supposed to up to four times faster.

The unit provides a sophisticated in its features password protection and also individually to specific files or directories towards Configurable auto-backup, which is active in the background, either continuously, runs along with each memory operation or only at specific times. The fuse also possible in the internet cloud, with registration at Dropbox.com, I will, however, not to use well.

CONCLUSION: The device works well in an amateurish configured Windows7 environment. Considered with regard to other use cases than me of course, I allow myself no judgment.