Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N
Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.cent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
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Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N Reviews
It is very quiet - unlike an earlier backup drive that sounded like an airplane taking off. Looks good, works good go for it. He took care of partitioning with some FAT and some NTFS sections, the later preferred by Windows OneCare (which is another story altogether and now uninstalled). No suprises - holds plenty of info, including back ups of my son's backups. With this one I never even notice it's there. My college-age son recommended this - he already had an earlier version.
Given my 500G HD failed and other reviewers did too at about same duration and purchase date, I suspect a design flaw. Unfortunately I still have WD 500G and a WD 250 gig that are working fine.
Even WD is unlikly to fail in 2 external drives at once. Lost some data between dvd backups, but I was lucky to not lose more. Failed after 14 months just like other reviews.
I now can use them only in tandem and then solely to back up primary data on laptop on two external drives. I do not plan to buy another western digital product when these fail. Failed drive would power up but computers could not recognize it.
I can not assume my Western Digital drives are reliable.
Spend a little more money and get something more reliable. I bought two of these two years ago for a video editing project, and both of them have been nothing but trouble. They both freqeuently gave me write errors, and I could never get them to mount via firewire at all. One of them has completely died and refuses to mount no matter what I try, and the other is threatening to follow.
2nd one of these that I have gotten, works and looks great , I use it with a MAC, and it is quiet
I was horribly disappointed. While Vista recognized the drive immediately, it took over an hour to copy a 10 GB folder using a USB 2 connection. My advice would be to pay a little more for another drive. I bought the 500 GB My Book at Best Buy for $99 and expected it to perform like my older IO Gear external drive. That's simply unacceptable. I should have checked the other reviews here and at Cnet to see how bad this drive is. I have had several WD drives in computers over the years and never expected them to produce a product that would perform so poorly.
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