Solid hard drive at a bargain price

In contrast to the broad masses WD has much of the housing in a pleasant matt plastic packaging of, I did it almost in 21Jhd. considered impossible, enables transport without the famous fat fingerprints.

Also managed the smooth running of the hard drive in idle mode. With notebook and 50cm radius of the idle sound of the hard disk is almost completely under. Only wild Hits cause a slight rattle.

The formatted disk capacity is given as 1.86 TB and; also this is gratifying, WD waived as opposed to mobile Passport drive on all unnecessary Softwarekram. Except for a WD icon in Autorun I think of nothing. Well done!

Formatting the drive with TrueCrypt disk reaches a write speed of 22MB approx / s. Small files transported the disk with 35MB / s in read mode and 35MB / s in write operation on the magnetic disk, which again shows here too, the USB 2.0 bus has become the real bottleneck. Where we are right at the next topic. Even with optimistic transfer rate of 25MB / s requires you to fill the plate full 21 hours. This is no longer appropriate with security. Here indicates simply that it is high time for USB 3.0.

Otherwise there is little to report, the hard drive does what it should and, completely unobtrusive.

3 criticisms I give the overall construction total, which also causes the withdrawal of a star.

- That too shaky in my opinion microUSB cable, which also in particular because precisely to 3.5 "disks have enough space there, Cable would through a mini-USB can be replaced, which also sits better mechanically, and to other are me already (also known from the 2.5 "section) kaputtgegangen 2 WD these cables.
- The lack of mechanical on / off switch, the power saving of madness simply a part in time for me. Even if you do not 'want to have the power "constantly with the board and in particular the other hand does not want to constantly crawl under the desk to unplug the AC adapter
- The mitlerweile too small for the capacity of data transfer rate of USB Buses, which is indeed irrelevant for successive data collector, but for ad-hoc "refueling" of the hard disk is too small.

** Update ***
The power supply used in disconnected disk about 0,8-1Watt
The drive draws in read / write activity approx 8-9Watt
In the idle state at herlaufender right disk inactivity 6,2Watt be unplugged.