Received well packaged and in perfect condition, the Verbatim black metal casing is solid. It features a front green operation lamp discreet enough; and behind a precious and rare off switch, a USB 2.0 jack and a connection socket for a planned external power to be connected to either a classic European plug or to a UK plug.
The best that one does not see is inside: A hard disk SATA-2 Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD154UI to 3 trays, buffer size: 32 MB speed: 5400 revolutions / minute, average access time: 8.9 ms, maximum transfer rate 166 MB / s. Its gross capacity of 1.5 TB formatted in FAT 32 returns to a fabulous real capacity of 1.36 TB ... for 80 euros! Everything comes with a registered Nero backup software in a disk directory
The disc does not heat up abnormally and remains relatively quiet. It is ideal for use as I do (save and occasionally watch digital TV in HD via the plug on my satellite decoder TNT). The transfer speed than sufficient for this purpose and for backup files can be optimized by a reformat to NTFS.
Difficult to find better value & quality capacity / price. Go for it!