Compared to my "Western Digital Elements WDE1U10000E" the case is almost 3cm shorter. The USB port is now the smaller connector: Mini-USB. There are, as seen in the photo, not much more rubber, but only four rubber feet below. The LED is again close to the two connectors, this time in white and next to the USB port.
The first data buckets to the hard drive via USB 2.0, the data rate rises over 25Mbyte / s. After about 20 hours, the plate was full. Temperature and noise are remarkably low.
The white LED lights up even when the disk is not rotating, only when the USB connection has been disconnected, the LED goes out.
The hard drive was immediately formatted NTFS (FAT32 would have noticed me, because I want some files with 5GB plan and bring greater).
Operating with Windows XP immediately perfect: suitable formatted and no annoying software on it.
Operating with WDTV immediately without problems, of course, the automatic searching and cataloging of 900GB / 20,000 files need first time. In quiet living room, I notice again that the new hard drive really is no noise. From the old 1TB Elements I can hear the engine and read head.
The included USB cable is about 1m long and has, as well as the power supply cable, a ferrite core.
The power supply 12V 1.5A makes. Thus there is no difference this time eg to 1TB Elements (and WDTV). The 500GB element had a power supply with 5V and 12V.
Overall, not the cheapest 2TB USB drive, five points because of noise, temperature, data rate, appearance.
