WD portable hard drive question

[Duane Attaway]

Looks good.  Might get one myself!

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Jon Pruente wrote:

> I was browsing the stuff at the Walmart in Lee's Summit and they have
> the WDBAAA5000ABK
> ( http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=700 ) for $50, half
> MSRP and $10 cheaper than Microcenter. I might stop by again to verify the
> model number. This is the newer design with the USB controller integrated to
> the drive's mainboard and some reviews mention a high power draw over the
> single USB port for some machines. It's also got some sort of VCD thing
> going with the WD SmartWare crapware on it. Anyone used one of these under
> Linux or other UNIXy OS and have any tips? The $50 is pretty dang cheap for
> a half terabyte of portable storage, but it's not cheap enough to have a
> boat anchor laying around.
> Jon.
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