Ultimate Data Tank

As there is only one manufacturer of 2TB hard drives in 2.5-inch format are, these external hard drive comes in the finished housing installed exactly this, ie WD. The current price of more than 200 can occur while a high, but he is only a few tens of euros above the bare plate itself. For this, however, you get a quality generic housing made of high quality aluminum, which is also equal to two FireWire delivers next to the USB 2.0 port 800 ports. This is taken care of for a brisk data throughput that can not be really miss even USB 3.0.

I tested the drive on my MacBook Air, where they uncomplainingly on the power to the USB ports running (no Y cable required). The measured performance is on average 30-40 MB / s, the writes an average of around 5 MB / s slower than the read accesses. As usual, the power via FireWire will be significantly higher once again, not least because this interface even more power can be delivered to the hard drive, otherwise no other type of power supply offers / needs.

What strikes you immediately is the slightly larger height of 15mm, which is around 50% more than the traditional 2.5-inch hard drives with just 10mm. But that match the FW800 ports without problems in the rear wall of the housing, and the portability does this not detract.

For those who really need to accommodate a lot of data in the smallest possible space, the perfect plate - there is (currently) no alternative. That, the whole thing still goes without extra power supply, the quality of the panel further underscores only.

Strong buy recommendation (I will not soon be restored, because I now the ideal "Springer-plate" was that sufficient supplies plenty of space to me in any situation, be it a security system, a RAID-upscaling, ...)