External Hard Drive: Review of the Western Digital 1600

I was getting pretty low on disk space on my desktop computer and started to look for an external hard drive. I did not want to go into the hassles of using an internal drive due to the space it would take up in my PC and I am concerned about heat build up with all that I have in it.

I went with a Western Digital for the brand I would go with.Some of the other brands I looked into were more expensive and I was looking for something I could afford but that was dependable.

On the internet I looked at several and decided to go with the Western Digital 1600 due to a clearance sale at Target at the time. Western Digital is a company that has been around long enough to be making good products and have a good reputation.

I wanted one that had a little more space than my internal drive and went with the 160 megabytes. This would allow me to use it for storage of files, pictures and music that my family has.

I also wanted a hard drive that I could use for storage while editing movies and videos, I have been playing with video editing. While editing videos, the programs take up quite a bit of hard drive space while performing certain editing and creation functions. I can set up my editing program to use the external drive to temporarily store the files there instead of the internal drive.

Western Digital Essential USB 2.0 External Hard Drive model 1600 is a quick and easy to use external hard drive. It uses USB interface but can be used on a USB 1.1. The drive works on either a Windows or MAC system with a USB port.

The drive comes with a one year warranty. You can purchase a further warranty if you wish. You can visit their website for further information on that.

A lot of people use an external drive as a backup for files they want to be sure to keep. I would be using mine as my primary storage for files and working folders for my desktop. Any backing up I will be doing for now will be to disks.

If you use yours as a backup what you would need to be doing is using a program to copy the files you want to the drive. Cnet.com has several reviews of programs that you can use for quick and convenient backups of your files, data and drives.