HARD DRIVE, 500GB MYBOOK COMBO EXT
by WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
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Customer Review: Great backup device for the Solo law firm.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been looking for a product to back up my extensive client law files for several months and didn't feel comfortable with most. Finally, I stumbled across this little jewel through microsoft's marketplace and decided this looked promising. It arrived in a few days and within 45 minutes, my files were fully backedup, set for auto backups in the background, never interferes with other programing or computer operations. It's excellent and trouble free and easy to operate. I couldn't be happier and I know my client's files are safe should my computer crash. For those who ask, "But what about a fire? Then what are you going to do since this device will be destroyed, presumably so anyway." Well, the answer is: have a DVD burner and make a back up of those files which are absolutely the "crown jewels" and keep a set of DVD's at some other location, your house, bank safe deposit box, etc.?
As far this product, you won't go wrong. It works great. Love it.
Bernie the Attorney in Tulsa
Customer Review: Reliable premium performer!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The WD premium 500gb harddisk is compact, has a good amount of storage space, is fast and reliable. It has a nominal 7,200 RPM speed and 16mb buffer. Noise/ heat emanating from the unit is low. There is a handy AUTO sleep/ wakeup feature.
The difference between this and the Essential edition is the FireWire 400 and capacity guage in the Premium edition.
However, as many others have mentioned before, the inner blue ring meant to be the Capacity Gauge gets a lot of background light from the outer ring, and hence its function is still in doubt for me.
But, considering performance, reliability and storage-this is a great drive to archive files-for students, professionals and home users alike.
This unit isn't small enough for travel use though. So, I use a 120gb WD Passport for that. The real difference is the USB powerup in the passport (but slower R/W speed) vs the Power cord in the MyBook (with higher transfer speeds.)
Customer Review: So far so good...
Summary: 5 Stars
My first hard drive was a 20MB mech I installed in a homebuilt 20MHz 80386 box. It could hold every floppy I owned. Wow! At that time we talked about terabyte devices holding the Library of Congress. Now, terabyte storage is well within reach for the average user. How times have changed.
I'm happy with the "WD My Book" and haven't had any problems so far. It connected easily to my laptop and desktop. The case is attractive and the front LED is surprisingly informative. The book-oid design actually works, and the rubber feet (integrated into the "cover" of the book) keep it from sliding around. For best performance use Firewire or USB 2.0! I'm limited to USB 1.0 on one box and it's actually slower than my network. In any case, if you're backing up your big ol' 120GB drive expect to run some overnite file copy sessions. I plan to use it for a media library, but haven't had time to read the blogs on the latest Linux Media Server release.
Customer Review: So easy...So much space...All You Need
Summary: 5 Stars
I first used a product similar to this when editing video for a grad school project. My portable DVD camcorder couldn't connect straight to the computers; so the department said, "Use this".
Years later, I needed to back up my main computer. Having suffered through one hard drive meltdown I vowed never to not back up again. Was burning DVD-RWs but couldn't manage to keep the number of discs needed down to less than 20.
Enter the Mybook. Connecting this to my computer was as simple as "Power Cord, USB Cord, Done" The computer recognized it, and then it loaded the software. I switched to a Firewire cable for my initial backup (faster transfer times) and then used the USB 2.0 connection for my routine backups. The MyBook sits on my desk; and quietly makes sure I'll never lose any of my data again.
I have no cons for this device. It works like a charm.
Customer Review: GREAT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this unit after looking at many 500gb external hard drives. In addition to liking Western Digital's reputation, I liked the fact of having both the Firewire and USB 2 connections on the drive. The drive was formatted as one large FAT32 partition. XP users, like me, would want it formatted as a NTFS drive, which required re-formatting. But, before you reformat, be sure to copy the WD directory on the drive to your hard drive so you don't lose it! The reformatting took an hour or so. Once that was done I ran the Firewire driver included in the WD directory and then plugged it into my system. The system recognized it easily and the drive was ready for backups.
Using the Firewire connection I backed up over 19GB of data in less than 40 minutes. While it is not the fastest drive, it is plenty fast enough for most of us. Recommend this drive highly!