I'm far from being a computer whizz but already have two external HDs, one of which is a WD Book which has worked fine for a couple of years. I read all the reviews of external HDs including those in Computing Which?. It was a toss up between the WD Elements 1 TB and the Omega 1 TB. I chose the WD Elements because of past experience with the WD book though I have an Omega too. Ironically after purchase I saw the Omega 1 TB in Tesco's even cheaper. But I trust Amazon's returns policy and am pleased with the purchase. It comes with no instructions at all (see below) but was plug and play with no problem. It seems to work fine after about 3 weeks use. Just one word - if like me you need it for storing video camera material, it seems to be FAT32 partitioned which limts the file size. Having copied a number of videos on to it, I now have to remove them and re-partition the HD to take larger file sizes. Get more detail about Western Digital Elements 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - Black.
