The plate is delivered in a small silver colored casing which I guess it is plastic and not aluminum.
Otherwise as described 1TB nominal value (931 GB) with a short about 50 cm long cable (quite thick and stiff).
Installed is a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 SATA-300 (2.5 "5.400rpm, 8MB Buffer, Smart, APM, 48bitLBA, NCQ).
Smart showed after delivery no mistakes. Plate tests on the WWW occupy the board with an average rating.
In continuous test (normal format under W7 with USB 2, The entire plate is rewritten, lasted about 13 hours, then a few more hours to recode video) - no problems.
Smart status then still ok.
This plate was never warmer than 40 degrees. Barely audible.
Everything with USB 2.0, this transfers the plate average no more than 20 MB / sec on two different computers (XP barebone and W7 workstation) while writing.
20 MB / sec for sequential write time corresponds to the "lower threshold of pain" with USB 2.0, because supply my LaCie USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 WD MyPassport significantly more to the same devices that were relative but also much more expensive. Considering the price and the need for management that's ok. OK as a second redundant archive disk like mine for example.
Conclusion: power is promised what. So far, no problems.
