Western Digital - 1Tb 7200 Rpm 16Mb Ext Hdd
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Customer Review: My Book 1TB
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great hard drive. It's smaller than I expected it to be (about the same size as my 500 GB), and it's very quiet. These are both Western Digital Essential Edition drives. They both allow a USB 2.0 connection. They were both easy to install and to convert to the NTFS format. However, since I am very careful, I had the tech support guy on the phone just in case. The only difference between the two drives is that this newer one--the 1TB--does not have an on/off switch in the front. My XP OS allows me to 'safely remove hardware' with a click of the mouse button for both drives when I don't need them on. To turn the smaller drive back on, I just switch it on. For my new 1TB drive I would need to unplug the power cord from the back of the device and then plug it back in to restart it--a minor inconvenience--but perhaps safer. Otherwise, it is great storage and takes up little space on my desk. It's sleek and quiet. It's really a beauty.Customer Review: Sleek and quiet
Summary: 5 Stars
My expectations were beyond met when I plugged this in. It amazes me that a 1 TB external hard drive can be so quiet. I had returned a 1 TB older version of Western Digital's external hard drive because it sounded like a jet engine. Western Digital clearly fixed that problem with this model.
The design is sleek and stylish, it is perfectly silent, and it transfers quickly with a 2.0 USB port. I'm not so technically knowledgeable that I can provide speed test, but it has transferred a couple gigabytes within a minute.
I highly recommend this product.
UPDATE: I've had the product for 7 months now and I still stand by my original review. It has never given me any problems or crashed.
UPDATE: I've now had this product (which is no longer manufactured) for over 3 years and it still performs exactly the way it did when I first bought it. I love products that stand the test of time.
Customer Review: Holds a lot of TV
Summary: 5 Stars
I have ripped 603 gb of TV shows and movies to store on this drive so far. Before I got this drive, it would take about 26-35 minutes to copy one TV show disk to my laptop's hard drive. It takes about 28-39 minutes to copy them to this drive. I have a little netbook without an internal CD/DVD drive, so I have an external drive for that. I have the CD/DVD drive and the Western Digital drive plugged into a powered USB 2.0 hub.
The point is, this runs fast. It only takes a couple of minutes longer per DVD to run through the hub and into the WD drive instead of straight into my laptop.
I have watched some of the movies from the drive. (The point was to store DVDs I own on the external drive, then copy a few of them to my internal drive when I go on vacation.) I haven't noticed any drop in speed or any problems.
This does what it's supposed to do and I really like it.
Customer Review: Great hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this hard drive. It is very simple to use, just plug in to the wall and to your computer and it is good to go. I have used it for backup and it works beautifully. Very fast and massive.
I have two complaints:
1. The glossy exterior is very easily scratched and fingerprinted. I scratched it within about an hour just because I laid it down on the desk and then slid it on its side. I would personally prefer a matt finish that doesn't show fingerprints as easily and stays beautiful for longer.
2. When I bought this item, it was sold to me by Target. I saw it at a Target store in my area the day after I ordered it for the same price, with a $10 gift card included. I could have saved the shipping and handling, got myself a gift card and had the thing that day if I had known. So that may be something to consider if you want to buy from Target through amazon.
Customer Review: GREAT DURABlE HARDDRVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
This was my first external hard drive and having heard good thing about Western Digital I decided to go with their My Book 1 TB Hard Drive. At the time 1TB was considered huge and was one of the largest out there. I love this hard drive, absolutely love it. I haven't had any problems with it though the power cord has a short but that's my fault. I didn't take case of this drive as best I should. On that not I've also dropped it once or twice and to my surprise it was completely fine!...except I kinda separated the plastic casing on one of those drops but since it's happened I still continued to use it as my main drive for months later with no side effects. I was very happy with this purchase, the one problem I did have with it was that the casing was plastic and not metal. All I can say is my hard drive has been to hell and back and it's survived.