HARD DRIVE, 500GB MYBOOK COMBO EXT
by WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
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Customer Review: Had for a couple of months and no complaints.
Summary: 5 Stars
I use the drive as a storage place for my media and such and I haven't had a problem yet. I keep it in an underventilated place, and it never gets very hot. The only way I know it's on is by looking at it, can't hear a thing. My laptop doesn't have a firewire port, so I use a PCMCIA firewire card and it works fine. I'm completely satisfied with it. This refers to the 320Gb version, but it's all WD baby. I wish I knew they had a 500Gb version for $50 more than I paid for mine. Live and learn.
Fast forward to 2009 - Drive busted. Search "click of death" for explanation. Lost all photos, music, everything overnight.
Customer Review: Does just what it's supposed to.
Summary: 5 Stars
We're using this to hold our music collection for iTunes with our old Mac G4 tower, and transfer of files and accessibility was (and is) fast and smooth. Yes, you do have to format the drive for Mac OS using Disk Utility in the Utilities folder, and the lame backup software that this comes with isn't Mac compatible, but Backup by Apple is a far more elegant solution, anyways! Don't hesitate if you need a lot of storage, and don't be discouraged because some of it's 'features' are just sales gimmicks. This hard drive is quiet, sleeps when it's supposed to, and is fast enough for most applications.Customer Review: So far working great
Summary: 5 Stars
This drive is working great as a backup device on my 64 bit Windows server.
It's so quiet I don't even know it's there other than seeing it and the blue light on the front.
At first it wouldn't find the drive, but I broke out the instructions that came with it and you first have to plug it in via a USB port, then once recognized you can plug it in via the Firewire port.
Like any other external drive I have used, there's nothing to install. Just plug it in and you have a new hard drive ready to use, though I did have to format mine before I could use it.
Customer Review: A great and simple to use external
Summary: 5 Stars
I had this 500GB MyBook up and running about 60 seconds out of the box. Took me longer to push the plug into my UPS than the computer took to mount it as a drive!
For compatibility reasons the drives all come formatted in FAT32. To use for video editing, which is why I bought it, I had to re-format it to NTSF. the reformat that took only a minute or two and I was off and running.
Great drive, brainlessly simple to install and use.
Sorry I can't comment on the backup software but I only use this for Video and photo and I have an NAS for all backup.
Customer Review: Great for the price....so far!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the WD My Book premium Edition 500GB 2.0/Firewire External Hard Drive about a month ago. My laptop's hard drive was nearly full. I wanted to get something with a firewire option, but didn't want to pay $200. I found this one for $138 with tax and shipping. I think for the price you are getting a great product. It's worked fine to back up my laptop. I do use "Backup" for my mac instead of the program that comes with the hard drive.
I have read reviews that people have had it crash after several months. So far it works fine. Hopefully it stays that way!