Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N
This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect storage solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use. A USB 2.0 simple connection offers convenience and compatibility among multiple computers. Dimensions - Height 6.5 x Length 5.4 x Width 2.1 Weight - 2.5 Pounds
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Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N Reviews
I had the drive for little over a month when I started experiencing communication problems with my computer. A little more than a month later, it took a fall of little more than a foot onto a carpeted floor and croaked. I am very disappointed with the quality and don't plan on buying anything from this company ever again. I bought this hard drive for primary backup purposes.DON'T DO THIS. I lost over 100GB of priceless data I can never get back all for this piece of garbage.
It may be that WD has come up with a fix, but I'm not taking any chances on My Book until I hear some good news about a re-design I will probably remove the drive from its case and try putting inside of one of my computers. I was never able to use this drive in any of its four incarnations for the backup application I bought it for. My guess is that the drive is OK, but the interface electronics has gone bad, because it works for about a minute after I let it cool down for a few hours. WD has dutifully replaced each failed drive with another, which then proceeded to fail after some weeks or months. This one lasted long enough to get past the 90 day warrenty extension it comes with. I have an older version of this product (USB/FireWire) that just died again for the fourth time.
my son is very happy with his western digital 500gb by book external hard drive. it came alot faster then we had thought it might and seems to work great.
I used a Windows Vista program to do this, and it took several hours. I bought this hard drive after reading a number of reviews that said it took a while to set up. Quick Format would have taken minutes and given me the results I wanted. Also, the price on Amazon is lower than many other web sites. But other than that, there's nothing I'd change or improve about this hard drive. For me, setup couldn't have been easier just plug it into your computer and it's ready to go. The one thing I wish it included was instructions on the best way to reformat the HD from FAT32 to NTFS.
I deleted some pdf files that weren't necessary but that did little for me. In all reality I probably will not fill up the drive anytime soon so what am I really worried about. Compared to one of my colleagues this drive is much faster not only for my computer to acknowledge it but also transferring full size 8 MP files to it at about 2 images per second. I needed to get photos off of my laptop since I take many photographs of birds so I purchased this drive for the price and size. The 3,000 photos I transferred only took about 10 GB. I realize there is software on it but 35 Gigs worth. I am sure there are drives that can do it faster but I was plenty happy. The main negative thing I can say was that out of the box there was only 465 GB available.
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