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4 Star Review
Reviewed by: dpowellvirginia
Updated: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.
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5 Star Review
Reviewed by: nature47
Updated:04-01-08
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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.
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5 Star Review
Reviewed by: zhengtli
Updated:03-07-08
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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.
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4 Star Review
Reviewed by: JCONDE
Updated:03-04-08
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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?
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4 Star Review
Reviewed by: olderguy
Updated:02-20-08
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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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2 Star Review
Reviewed by: wtba
Updated:02-19-08
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Strengths: Big and cheap
Weaknesses: Mac Unfriendly
Overall Evaluation: While one review says you can format for the Mac, when I run Disk Utility it only lets me erase it with MS-DOS (fat). The Western Digital utility says it should, but it doesn't. The Mac sees it and it seems to work, but I'm not sure how it will work with apps like Time Machine. This is with 10.5.2 of the Mac OS.
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5 Star Review
Reviewed by: nandan02
Updated:02-17-08
Duration of ownership:12 Days
Strengths: One single 1TB drive; Compact in size; Plug & Play.
Weaknesses: None
Overall Evaluation: Reasonably priced nice external hard drive with lots of storage space. Reformatting to NTFS is fast from FAT32 standard the drive ships with (I use PC).Used it at a stretch for over 32 hours---transferred 700GB for another external & some back up---amazingly, drive does not run too hot. The plastic vents on top seems to do a good job of air circulation & ventilation.Speed of transfers seemed pretty much ok to me--though there are newer & costlier interfaces out there.The only minor gripe--uses a different type of USB connector cable, especially the part where it connects on to the External--guess it is the mini-USB type; so have to make sure to have it. Personally, I preferred the earlier USB cables---the ones you could plug into the printers or the External hard Drives.Highly recommended as a reasonably priced storage solution.
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4 Star Review
Reviewed by: cheungke
Updated:02-11-08
Duration of ownership:6 Days
Strengths: Large size, single drive, easy to use
Weaknesses: Short Warranty Period
Overall Evaluation: 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 drives in their previous models. Overall a good drive except for the short warranty period.
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1 Star Review
Reviewed by:
Updated:01-19-08
Duration of ownership:99 Days
Strengths: It worked for 6 months.
Weaknesses: It trashed a backup file and would not restore.
Overall Evaluation: It would not restore a file backed up to it and never showed it had any errors until it was too late. No management capabilities, doesn't self check itself and its files. Consumer style product, not designed for using it every day. Selling stuff like this is why compusa went under with so many dissatisfied customers.
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5 Star Review
Reviewed by: maytineektp
Updated:01-03-08
Duration of ownership:1 Days
Strengths: Good looking, and working very well with reasonable price.
Weaknesses: -
Overall Evaluation: 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!!
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WD My Book Essential Edition External 1TB Hard Drive
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