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Reviews: External Hard Drives

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition

Drive size (GB): 500 • Supported Interface(s): USB 2.0, FireWire 800/400 • Speed (RPM): 7200 • Buffer Size (MB): 16 • Cost per Gigabyte: $0.46 • Price When Reviewed: $230

Last updated
November 07, 2007

Pros

Triple interface drive
Triple interface drive

Cons

Fair performance

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Pricing: Inexpensive: $230 (11/7/2007)

Performance: Good: 74

Features: Good: 72

Design: Good: 79

Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Inexpensive: $230

Cost per Gigabyte - $0.46

Performance

Good: 74

PC World Tests (seconds)
Interface Tested	FireWire 800
Primary Volume - Virus Scan	126.43
Primary Volume - Windows File Search	96.96
External Read - Files and Folders	77.37
External Read - Large File	52.24
External Write - Files and Folders	172.62
External Write - Large File	56.19