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Western Digital WDG1U3200 My Book Essential Edition 320 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive | List Price: $249.99
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Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features: - Store and back up your music, photos, videos and important documents with this external hard drive
- Easy to set up and use with built-in installation software
- Simple user interface features USB 2.0 connectivity
- Device holds up to 320 GB of data
- Measures 5.55 x 2.25 x 6.71 inches (WxHxD)
Awesome Product [Posted on 2007-12-13]
This is a great product. Im very happy with it. Its refurbished, but It looks like new and it works like new. What i like about this product is that its not big at all. I thought it was going to take a lot of space in my desk and the price is good too. perfect buy!
EXCELLENT DATA STORAGE! [Posted on 2007-12-17]
I have three of these: a 320GB Essential (the first one I bought about 2 years ago), a 500GB Premium and (lately) a 750GB Professional. (I avoided the 1TB version due to the universally bad reviews it received). Their different colored lights help me keep my files separate and organized - and always backed up.
I have mostly good things to say about all of them: they are stable, silent enough to operate at home and can be formated to either Fat32 or NTFS to suit one's needs. I formated to NTFS before using it (but make sure to back up the contained files and utilities first).
My only complain is that when more than half-full, it takes some minutes for my PC to verify all the files contained and be able to use them. Utilizing the FireWire only slightly improves the time delay.
Regarding the complains about crashes and data losses: there is of course the possibility of this to happen to any data storage medium. Had I not had a flawless experience with my previous MY BOOKs, these concerns would had prevented me from expanding my...library. However, keep in mind that this is NOT a PORTABLE External HDD. It does not contain a solid-state flash drive, but instead a regular HardDisk Drive. So, moving it from place to place, shaking it (and even carrying it in a backpack) may not be the best way to ensure smooth operation.
On this note, can anyone trust any delivery service or company NOT to shake or drop it during shipment?
RECOMMENDED!
Seems great [Posted on 2008-01-07]
I ordered this external hard dive because my computer was acting up and I didn't want to lose everything if I had to reformat. I backed it all up in just a few minutes then I backed up my daughter's computer on the same hard drive. We haven't had to pull it off yet but it worked well.
Good drive .... but comes with a junk power supply [Posted on 2008-02-03]
WD is known for its hard-drives and I think they should stick to just that. I bought this drive about 6 months ago from an online retailer. The drive works slower than a cheaper, unbranded make I invested in earlier but was told by a friend that atleast WD is more reliable.
However, just yesterday the drive suddenly was powered off never to be powered again. I tinkered around and noticed that the power supply which has a unbelievably cheap and super thin cord was the culprit! I don't know if they bundle in that adapter with a poor make on purpose or what. But now it seems that I have to shell out $20 to replace it and WD is the only place where I can get it!!
So my conclusion is, when buying an external HDD, just go for one with good make. Your hard drive is a very durable component so the box it comes in matters more.
Worked fine for a while [Posted on 2008-09-29]
Worked fine for about a year, then just started acting funny, made lots of noises (technical speak for us not techies). Luckily I backed it up to the hard drive (we had been using it as a shared drive). Now back to the drawing board. Maybe a different manufacturer this time.
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