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Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N

Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N


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Product Detail Information:
ASIN:B000XRK3LG
Sales Rank: 42
Catalog:Ce
Binding:Personal Computers
Product Group:CE
Product Type:COMPUTER_DRIVE_OR_STORAGE
Brand:Western Digital
Manufacturer:Western Digital
Model: WDH1U5000N
Part No: WDH1U5000N
UPC: 718037120805
EAN: 0718037120805
Batteries Included: No
Hardware Platform: Mac
nv:Capacity (GB): 500
Interface: USB 2.0
Spindle Speed (RPM): 7200
Buffer Memory: 16MB
Average Seek (msec): <8.9
Track-to-Track Seek Time (typical read, ms): 2.0
Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Temperature, Operating (??C): 5 to 35
Temperature, Nonoperating (??C): -40 to 65
Form Factor: 3.5"
HardDisk Size: 500 GB
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No


Features:
  • Includes - External hard drive, USB cable, AC adapter and Quick Install Guide
  • Smart and energy efficient - Turns itself on and off with your computer
  • Saving and organizing your digital photo collection
  • USB 2.0 Serial Bus Transfer Rate - 480 Mbits/s
  • System Requirements - Available USB port, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
Product Description:

Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.cent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.



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Great product for price
8/16/2008
this is a bare bones hard drive that works great. just plug in and start using. no bells, no whistles, this is for the do it urself back-it-upper. love it. even talked family in to buying one and they love it as well.
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Worst product ever
8/15/2008
As many reviewers are already commenting, this product is the worst I've bought in my life. 2 My book, one of 250GB and another of 500 GB failed in just a year in the same way as explained by most of the reviewers (from one day to another any computer is capable of recognize de drive)... The sad thing, is that aside of the useless warranty, you will surely loose ALL your data.... so is MORE THAN "BAD LUCK" as customer support people said to me..
PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCTS, NOT ANY "MY BOOK" hardrive, YOU WILL REGRET IT AND DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T TELL YOU...
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Well, at least it still works...
8/12/2008
I bought my WD drive (320 GB) without reading any of the reviews. There are many reviews saying that it dies after a year. I don't know, I guess I'll wait and see since I've only had mine about three or four months.

My main gripe is the way this damn thing works. It takes extremely long to put all your data on it, it comes with Autosync, which it INSISTS on opening automatically each time I turn on my computer, slowing my laptop down to a crawl. The instructions are virtually non-existant. Need help with something? Too bad. Figure it out yourself.

I was so frustrated that I've already bought a new external HD (because I don't trust this one and it drives me crazy) and the new Toshiba that I bought worked so much more smoothly. No software starts up when I turn on my laptop, no slowing it down and the program it comes with (NTI Shadow) is easy to use and contains detailed PDF instructions.

I give it two stars because it still works.
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Bought the 320 GByte version of this model line
8/10/2008
I purchased the 320 gigabyte version of this model line from a national office supplies store. For what I paid for it, I thought it was a good deal, to act as a backup for files, and not as an everyday drive. If the
files are very important, I burn them to a CD/DVD. I prefer Western Digital drives to their competition, since none of my WD drives have failed. I can't say the same for the likes of Maxtor, etc.
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It's a HDD, it works.
8/9/2008
Not much to say because it is an external HDD. It works.

Plug it into my PC USB port and it turns on when it senses power on the USB port and turns itself off when there is no power on the USB port. There is no manual power switch.

On par with other external HDD's with respect to speed and noise.

No real positives, but no real negatives. Like I said, it's an external USB HDD. It works like it should.
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