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04-24-08
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: Compact.Attractive design.Excellent capacity/price.Single drive.
Weaknesses:Why ship a 1 TB drive formatted as FAT32 and not NTFS.
Overall Evaluation: Living in the digital world with high resolution cameras and videos, 1 TB storage is becoming the norm and WD have produced a reasonably priced and compact unit. This is the basic unit and I could see no advantage paying significantly more for a unit with a firewire connector as well. Very happy with my purchase, just a little confused why WD would ship it configured for FAT32 with all the limitations FAT32 has regarding file size.
04-01-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Work great. Never had an issue
Weaknesses:None
Overall Evaluation: I have now purchased 6 of these drives and I have not had any problems. I am using them for video storage and they work great. I have owned quite a few Western Digital external hard drives and I have been very impressed.
03-07-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Large capacity and fast
Weaknesses:None
Overall Evaluation: 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.
03-04-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: sleek and black
Weaknesses:slow on the uptake
Overall Evaluation: 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?
02-20-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Very quiet, power conserving.
Weaknesses:Backup software is trial.
Overall Evaluation: 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 command "convert D: /fs:ntfs" where 'D' is the drive letter assigned by your system. The conversion only takes about 5 minutes since the drive is essentially empty. With NTFS the drive is pretty fast although I haven't actually timed it. But I'll say it again, the backup software from Mateo is a 30-day trial -- absurd! The 1-yr warranty may be a concern but right now this is probably the market choice.
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