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Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N | List Price: $169.99
Discount Price: $99.99
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Personal Computers
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Includes - External hard drive, USB cable, AC adapter and Quick Install Guide
- Smart and energy efficient - Turns itself on and off with your computer
- Saving and organizing your digital photo collection
- USB 2.0 Serial Bus Transfer Rate - 480 Mbits/s
- System Requirements - Available USB port, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
Western Digital Drives are good [Posted on 2008-06-28]
You can store any type and size of data as long as it's in NTFS file format, you dont have to reformat the drive and lose your daya you can chage the file system with your files on it.
Standard Windows utility that is called CONVERT serves this purpose
Just go to the Command Prompt and execute the command:
Type: C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs
Where C: is a name of the drive you want to convert.
After machine re-boot conversion process will start and you'll have your FAT32 converted to NTFS without of data loss.
Another thing about Western Digital Drives is that your computer may not reconginze the drive, this is becuase you have too many devices on one powerstrip, so get another powerstrip so that you do not draw too much current away from the drive(s), then restart ypour computer! Problem solved!
External hard drive - Western Digital 500 GB [Posted on 2008-06-28]
About a month ago I purchased my second 500 GB external hard drive by Western Digital. The most recent is a My Book Essential 2.0.
These are small, attractive drives that stand upright like a book and take very little real estate. They are very quiet and connect via a USB cable with no effort. They do have a separate power supply.
They are fast to access data or have a backup performed. It goes without saying that I would buy another and recommend them to any user - the price is competitive and the quality is outstanding.
Fast, quiet, reliable [Posted on 2008-06-30]
I had mixed expectations for this drive. I have an ultraportable laptop with a relatively smalle drive, so this was meant to be my data drive when the laptop is docked, to be used ongoing and not just for backups etc.
I have my itunes library on it as well as most of my large docs. It works perfectly and feels as if it's a part of the machine. Highly recommended.
So far so good. [Posted on 2008-07-01]
Have had it for a month. Didn't use it often but so far so good. No problem to report yet.
Hard drive failed completely after 14 months [Posted on 2008-07-01]
I purchased a Western Digital 500 GB My Book in May 2007, had it installed on my home network and last month (06/2008) it totally failed without reason or warning. My only options at this point are to pay for some extremely expensive data recovery ($1,600) or accept the loss of several years worth of pictures and documents.
Needless to say, I am furious with this device.
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