There are a few things to note when considering this drive. For one, the display only shows the drive name and free space available. Also, the LCD is not backlit, even though the product photos make it appear as such. The curved shape also does not lend this drive to being stackable, either.
The free space statistic is not real-time: it shows the amount of space when you first connect the device (thus powering it on). The other major caveat I ran into was that the drive is formatted in FAT32… meaning that I could not copy over large 6GB DVD images. This was easily rectified by reformatting the drive to NTFS but by this time I had already copied over hundreds of gigabytes.
In the end, this portable is a pretty awesome little drive. The ability to monitor the amount of space you have on it regardless of it being plugged in or not is a great addition. This should be mandatory for all enclosures from now on, I think. The speed isn’t nearly as good as a Firewire or eSATA, but it’s nothing to complain about either, especially if you are unlucky enough to recall backing up to USB 1.1. The piano black is always a welcome feature, and it really accents the simplicity of the design. It’s small, no buttons, with a single blue LED and a small LCD. The only port available is a single mini-USB and that pretty much sums up the outside. The inside, however, tells a different story. A small circuit board controlling the LCD and a 500GB Western Digital laptop HDD hold the power to store massive amounts of data in a small, sleek enclosure. In short… I like it.
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