One-day deal on WD 250GB portable drive

Got some data cleanup plans for the Labor Day weekend? I know I do — there are scads of vacation pictures, silly videos and MP3s that have got to get gone from my laptop hard drive and onto some standby storage. That's why I was excited to see Amazon's one-day deal (8/28 only, probably cutting off at midnight PT but I can't be sure) on the Western Digital 250 GB Passport drive: $90US, and eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime. Giga-licious, although 250 GB isn't as big as it used to be...

I've gotten plenty of reliable use out of my own identical WD 250 Passport, which has a bus-powered USB port and a sleek black finish (makes it kind of hard to see on my desk, but that's another matter). No other connection to WD or Amazon, except as a satisfied customer. I believe the drive ships formatted with cross-platform FAT32, but as all savvy Mac users know, you're best off reformatting as HFS+ when you get the drive — otherwise you'll be cringing when you try to copy those larger-than-4-GB video files that FAT32 doesn't support.

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