Comments on: Western Digital WD Elements 1.5 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDBAAU0015HBK-NESN

By: Robert A. Morin

Robert A. Morin — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:46:58 +0000

This is a great hard drive, roomy, worked right on plugging it up to my USB drive and hooking it into my surge protector, and the like. However, one thing I did NOT know was that there were no screws or removability to the hard drive casing in case I wanted to swap my hard drive down the road. Also, my internal hard drive on my gaming rig is 640GB (also a Western Digital Caviar), and I really intended on getting this drive so I could make that my external drive, and swap this and make this 1. 5TB HDD my new internal drive, considering that it was cheaper getting this vs. getting an internal hard drive and a case a la carte. Guess I should’ve looked at the specs to determine whether the case could’ve been opened or not. Oh well, I’ll keep the drive, maybe use it for backups and such. . .
Rating: 3 / 5

By: W. Hennessey

W. Hennessey — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:32:41 +0000

There were no instructions with package. Followed the scimatics on hooking up

and that was the end, a light came on and it sat there doing nothing nor could

I get any help on line.

End of Story a piece of junk so far.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Marc B. Dombrowa

Marc B. Dombrowa — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:56:53 +0000

I purchased this drive for

By: Franklin A. Moses

Franklin A. Moses — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:51:39 +0000

This item performs as advertised, but in such an unstable manner that I could not recommend it to any one. I use a competitor’s equiptment. Thumbs down.
Rating: 3 / 5

By: Gift Card

Gift Card — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:11:38 +0000

I never purchased the external HD fro WD because it doesn’t boot up from Tiger, as it doesn’t have Firewire support.
Luckily I found this out before re-purchasing the above-mentioned drive. It was doubly confusing for myself, as the
Western Digital products are by and large compatible with Mac.
Anyway, Amazon routed my to Other World Computing, and I found a HD for my purposes.
Rating: 1 / 5