WD My Book Essential Edition External 1TB 3.5" Hard Drive

By member: JCONDE - Mar 4, 2008

Nice unit but a little slow

Strengths: sleek and black

Weakness: slow on the uptake

I have had this unit for a couple of weeks now and it does its job. I purchase it to replace a maxtor unit that died on me. Made the mistake of not having a backup and paid the consequences. I will not do that again and will purchase a second unit soon. My only issue is that it is a little slow when it comes to input/output. What do you want for $230?

Western digital MyBook 1TB External Hard Drive

Strengths: Good looking, and working very well with reasonable price.

Weakness: -

This drive is elegant and light weight than I imagine. It works very well and quiet. I’m not good at computer stuff, but I need a big drive to store many things. When I got it, I could use it easily.So, I'd like recommend this drive to other people. It's been all my memories!!

Nice 1TB Hard Drive

Strengths: Elegantly designed; One single 1TB drive instead of two 500GB; Power Efficient

Weakness: Show a capacity of 930GB instead of 1TB

This is a very elegantly designed USB 2.0 external hard drive from Western Digital. Although it is a little pricy, i got it at a discount during the Thanksgiving sales and i could tell you it is well worth the extra money. The drive enclosure is a glossy black finish with a soft blue LED lights in front. If you intend to keep this drive in the living room next to your PC, the soft blue LED will...

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Great value

Strengths: Large capacity and fast

Weakness: None

The internal drive is the 1TB WD Cavier CP. Very fast and efficient. I took the drive out and used it as a internal drive for my pc, runs very fast and quiet.

WD 1TB MyBook Essential

Strengths: Very quiet, power conserving.

Weakness: Backup software is trial.

As other reviewers have noted, the drive is formatted FAT32 and is painfully slow when you first plug it in and it autostarts the process for loading its software. If you want to keep the software, which is a trial -- $30 for the full product, *don't* reformat the drive, but rather _convert_ it (Win XP/Vista). From an administrator cmd window (Start, type cmd and right-click cmd.exe) issue the...

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Western digital MyBook 1TB External Hard Drive

Strengths: Elegant looking; 1TB (a lot of space!); Compact in size; USB 2.0 (fast!)

Weakness: None so far

I bought this external hard drive this thanksgiving and love it very much. I had two 250GB MyBook external hard drives before and this one is way better look than the old version MyBooks. It has 1TB space and can take tons of data with it. Its size is quite compact, smaller than the 1st version of MyBook. Overall, I love this hard drive and would recommend it to other people.

Best Storage Device So Far I have

Strengths: ITB, silent, easy to work, no software installation required

Weakness: No On/Off switch, no stand

I am really impressed by it. 1TB is a lot of space and I was expecting it be a little bulky and noisy. But on the contrary, it is small, quiet and very easy to use. Although, it comes with some pre-loaded software, I didn’t need to install them or format the drive to access it and was able to use it right away. It would nice if it came with an ON/OFF switch and stand/bag, but no biggy.

Western digital MyBook 1TB External Hard Drive

Strengths: 1. Hibernate mode when computer is in sleep mode 2. Runs extremely cool 3. Extremely quite 4. Nice blue light 5. Energy efficient

Weakness: 1. No on/off switch 2. Mini-USB and not standard USB cable 3. Reformatting to NTFS ships with FAT32 for compatability 4. Short warranty period of 1 year but entered serial at WD site and says 3 yr

Use Windows to format it to NTFS using Quick Format (5 seconds), or do a Full Format and it takes approximately 12 hours -- support for files over 4GB in size & better security with NTFS. The drive is extremely cool and quiet. NTFS runs faster and you can get rid of all that trial software that is pre-loaded. I have always bought the Sxxxxxx brand but am impressed with this drive compared to my...

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Western digital MyBook 1TB External Hard Drive

Strengths: Fast speed, sleek, reliable, small

Weakness: I would say that it's slightly noisy but that should be expected from having 1TB in such a small compartment.

I bought this end of May and instantly slammed it full of data, all of which it readily accepted. It has only a small blue light in the front which is nice both for aesthetic purposes and makes it less distracting. There is no on/off switch on the device itself but unless it's plugged into a computer that's turned on it goes into a hibernate mode which is very nice. As said above it is a little...

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Hard Drive Review

Strengths: Large size, single drive, easy to use

Weakness: Short Warranty Period

A single external terabyte drive that is easy to use, just have to plug in the cables and ready to use outside of the box. It has a nice and simple design that is stackable with other My Book drives. The drive powers off and on by itself whenever it is accessed. This terabyte drive is different from their previous models where this is an actual terabyte instead of the RAID design of two 500 GB...

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