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

Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies

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• Reviewed by: swccman

  12-24-09

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Works totally PNP under Linux and Windows.

  Weaknesses:None really, it's kind of big but, that's cosmetic. I've never actually seen it copy at 480 Mbps (USB transfer limit rate)

  Overall Evaluation: Good quality product, I've seen it along with the CPU and Video memory buffer movies well. A good piece of hardware.

• Reviewed by: gr8horizon

  04-09-09

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: no

  Weaknesses:no

  Overall Evaluation: ignore last review. It was for the online dealer JAZ technologies

• Reviewed by: consumerunhappywithWD

  04-28-10

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: none that I found. Only used it once though.

  Weaknesses:Doesn't work when it is needed. Took a dump right after the warranty period.

  Overall Evaluation: I was using this to back up computer files. Only used it once. Went to retrieve info after warranty already expired. I think they must have the shortest warranty period! Must be because that is when they are known to fail. Seems there are a lot of people out there with this problem. WD has bad external drives and doesn't care. Researched and found a better external drive. No bad reviews and is actually less expensive. Easy to use and much more reliable than WD. Thanks for nothing Western Digital. You won't be getting any of my money again.

• Reviewed by: drgold2000

  07-31-09

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  Strengths: 1. Hibernate mode when computer is in sleep mode2. Runs extremely cool3. Extremely quite4. Nice blue light5. Energy efficient

  Weaknesses:1. No on/off switch 2. Mini-USB and not standard USB cable3. Reformatting to NTFS ships with FAT32 for compatability4. Short warranty period of 1 year but entered serial at WD site and says 3 yr

  Overall Evaluation: 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 other 6 Sxxxxx drives which get so hot and have long warranties but have been crashing lately. Western Digital must have the best quality control. I do wonder how hard it is to get inside if I ever need to retrieve the data from a dead drive ... the Sxxxxxx USBs that I have are very difficult to get into without the video from our most popular site, Yxxxxxx. Found a good one with photos for this case with a search. Hope I continue to LOVE this Drive!

• Reviewed by: mwloveland

  07-10-08

  Duration of ownership: 2 Days

  Strengths: Fast speed, sleek, reliable, small

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

  Overall Evaluation: 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 noisier than my other HD but nothing I wouldn't have expected from 1TB of info being stored in such a small box. I have had zero problems with it and am very pleased with my purchase.

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