Verbatim 2.5-inch 500GB External Hard Disk Drive Review

Verbatim is trying to catch up the next evolution in the storage market and has started to move away from its traditional bread and butter, removable media such as blank optical media, flash media and tapes.

The 40-year old company, which is part of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubichi Chemical Corporation Group, has now expanded its range to include the likes of solid state disks, networked multimedia hard drives, a range of computer peripherals and even consummables like paper, labels and toners.

They have sent us one of their latest products, the premium edition of its 2.5'' USB 2.0 Executive 500GB Portable Hard Drive range which differs from its other normal 500GB models, atlhough we have yet to find out how.

Actually, the drive - which carries a two year warranty - is an updated version of a previous silver-coloured Verbatim 500GB portable hard drive but with some significant differences which we will highlight later.

The model, which carries the product number 47581, came with a USB 2.0 cable, a quick start guide, Nero BACKITUP 4 Essentials back up software and a neoprene case.