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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1844954" data-attributes="member: 190607">Yes, Western Digital makes these shockingly inexpensive tiny portable hard drives.&nbsp; They are almost irresistible, and probably just fine for their intended purpose.&nbsp; Just don't use them in a long-term storage situation where losing your data would be a catastrophe, or as a constantly connected drive. These drives have little to no cooling, they are bus powered, and they have notoriously unreliable, and slow, internal mechanisms.One nasty little secret I got from a WD engineer was that their consumer class drives are not tested at all once assembled.&nbsp; The components are briefly tested as they come in from southeast Asian suppliers (WD doesn't manufacture any of their own HD's anymore), but not the completed drive.&nbsp; Enterprise class drives do get a short burn-in.&nbsp; Fierce competition and paper thin margins produced this situation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1844954, member: 190607"] Yes, Western Digital makes these shockingly inexpensive tiny portable hard drives. They are almost irresistible, and probably just fine for their intended purpose. Just don't use them in a long-term storage situation where losing your data would be a catastrophe, or as a constantly connected drive. These drives have little to no cooling, they are bus powered, and they have notoriously unreliable, and slow, internal mechanisms. One nasty little secret I got from a WD engineer was that their consumer class drives are not tested [I][B]at all[/B][/I] once assembled. The components are briefly tested as they come in from southeast Asian suppliers (WD doesn't manufacture any of their own HD's anymore), but not the completed drive. Enterprise class drives do get a short burn-in. Fierce competition and paper thin margins produced this situation. [/QUOTE]

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