REVIEW: WESTERN DIGITAL PASSPORT ESSENTIAL -2009- USB EXTERNAL HD
well, no any code name for the latest WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL USB External Hard Disk, just year 2009 
Need a new external storage, cause my old one is full yep 100GB old HD is full, now I decide to buy a new one. Going to my best friend store, he show me the newest -price too :p – WDC External HD USB.
First seeing the box, I’m not too excited, just ordinary small cartoon box with color printing. Very different when compare to Seagate External HD USB so far different. Seagate much more good looking, eye catching, plastic transparent box with a lot of eye candy
Well after do some browse the WDC web, I’m interest in the new tagline: smaller, smarter, safer 
with a 3 main features;
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Our smallest portable drive ever. We designed a smaller, high-quality, integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package. With a variety of fun colors, there’s sure to be one to suit your style. |
See your life safe in one place. WD SmartWare software – A visual control center with a single screen view of all your data. From it you can back up, retrieve, and secure your files. |
Password protection. An extra level of security with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. |
as linked to WDC web :p
Any detailed info? go to the WDC web :p too long for me to described here
Features
well, it said: small? yes! just a little bigger than the 2,5″ HD! compared to the other external HD, too. small light thin, and feel rugged, well if You put some pressure to upper body, it will bend, thanks to good plastic and good assembly . Very nice and good looking external HD, too. And this drive using the MICRO USB PORT! nice companion to my BlackBerry which use the same port, just one good cable to bring anywhere And off course on the box provided Micro USB to USB cable, on my pack: just a short cable but nice and feel durable.
smarter? yes! the Smartware is working very good even on MAC! *i forgot what I buy is PC version there are Mac version with smartware for MAC and pre-formatted drive to HFS* and Smartware do the jobs exactly as advertised
safer? 256 bit hardware encryption and on the fly -if the password protection is enable via smartware- is enough!!! What real cool is: when the password is ON, automatically the Drive is locked, how to open? just open the Smartware Drive and look for UNLOCK, double click it and input the password and drive is unlocked and it works both on MAC or PC! and no application installing to unlock!
TESTING
Almost no noise! heat? just a bit warm. What I concern is the vibration, due to thin casing the vibration of HD is not dampened enough, just a bit vibration, no need to worry much :p
test using HD TUNE 2.55 Free Edition. Test using Macbook Unibody 2.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, using Win XP SP2 with bootcamp 2.1
Unique thing here is: the CPU Usage is pretty big, maybe because the usage of Drive Lock feature.
LOOKS
I choose the silver one, to match with my unibody macbook hehehe.. Silver painted plastic body -not glossy but looks like the paint is not durable enough to stand the scratch 
-, however it is very good painting with white WD Logo, at the bottom just a sticker of S/N, My Passport marking, 4 tiny rubber feet to protect from slide off.
The port itself is attach at the down side of WD Logo, small micro usb port. Then a very small white LED -real cool- at the right side of HD. White plastic for a variation is good, cool.
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