Western Digital WDG1U7500N My Book Essential Edition 750 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use - just plug the My Book Essential Edition in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies.
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Western Digital WDG1U7500N My Book Essential Edition 750 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Reviews
- Back up your data. Took several attempts to get it to mount, but once it did I found the data. It came in very handy when its big brother failed completely (the six month old MyBook 1TB I eventually upgraded to) - some of the data that wasn't backed up elsewhere was still lingering on this one in the closet. toss a coin. Heads, it will mount, tails, it will not make its presence known to the computer.
I'll never buy another WD product.
I've wished for a long time that I'd returned it immediately. I've never been able to get this hard drive to connect reliably.
Plug it in, attach the USB cord and. I bought this several years ago, and it was unstable and unreliable from the get-go.
I'm relatively certain that something is loose in there.
You'll save yourself a LOT of headache.
I'm going to avoid Western Digital for a while. I lost some data, but with patience I was able to move most of my data to other drives on my network. When the drive failed, I wasn't even in the country. It stalled on a number of files, freezing the machine and corrupting the files that were unfortunate enough to be in the process of transfering when the drive stalled. I'm one of those people who reads reviews were hardware fails, and thinks, "Well, they just weren't handling the hardware correctly.". I'm super-careful with my hardware, so I thought I'd have no problem with this drive. One day I tried to access files on the drive, only to discover the the drive seemed to be empty.
I switched it to my Windows Vista machine, and it worked a bit better, but still would drop the connection after a few minutes of use. Eventually it began to take down Windows Explorer with it, requiring a reboot of the machine. I was away from home for two months, accessing the computer this drive was connected to via Remote Desktop. My LaCie drive (two years old) is still running with no issues. A few weeks later, on returning home and reconnecting the drive, everything seemed to be working fine, but that was the beginning of the end. The drive would just "drop connection" from my XP machine, resulting in a "Delayed Write Error" message.
I'm still waiting to hear back from WD support. I'm pretty sure my warranty is over, since I think I bought this drive just over a year ago. I guess it is just a hunk of garbage now, since I don't have a spare tower machine to move the hard disk itself into (there are sites online that explain how to remove the drive from its case and install it as an internal drive). Tonight I spent a few hours, slowly moving my most important data from the drive.
About four months after the manufacturer warranty. Anyway I am now using LaCie Drives. The drive went bad after a year. But at least with LaCie they give you a 3 YEAR WARRANTY on their drives. I had a WD and mine was pretty noisy at times. I had to pay 1,500 to retrieve my data. Found out it was a bad controller. I realize that sometimes there are bad batches of drives.
I launched Disk Utility again and it recognized the drive as a Western Digital 2TB drive with no USB serial number. Connecting to my G4 PowerMac I tried to format the drive using Disk Utility. My second attempt to transfer more files resulted in the drive locking up (the Copy indicator on the Mac stalled with no indication of bits being transferred). I transferred about 100GB of video without any problems on Day 1. From this point forward, I was unable to reformat, partition, or otherwise get the drive to work.
The first couple of times failed, getting an "input/output" error. I couldn't cancel the copy via the dialog, did a Force Quit (to no avail) and was forced to do a hard shut down (Powered off the Mac). Purchased this to provide a backup of my digitized video files.
So back to WD it goes. The old adage is true - if it doesn't exist in two separate locations, it may as well not exist. When I powered everything back on, the drive was no longer mountable.
Even tried to connect it to my XP laptop. But I able to eventually format the drive chalking it up to user error. Fortunately, I did not erase the previously copied 100GB, so no data loss.
But this experience does make me a little nervous about trusting the drive as an archiving or sole copy repository.
Recommended. My oldest is 3 years. This is my 4th western digital external hard drive, and 3rd in the mybook series. The drives are reliable, accessing files is quick (however it will go to sleep if not used for a while, but even then will only take 5-10 seconds to "wake up"), and the price keeps coming down.
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