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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1 TB External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $379.99
Buy New: $175.99
You Save: $204.00 (54%)
New (16) Used (2) from $175.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 43
Format: Cd
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 7 x 5.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WDH1U10000N
Model: WDH1U10000N
UPC: 718037122700
EAN: 0718037122700
ASIN: B000VZCEUI
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Easy to set up, easy to use: Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install. | | • | Automatic backup: every time you save something it's automatically backed up. | | • | Interface: USB 2.0 | | • | Fits right in: Takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. | | • | Environmentally friendly: Our environmentally-friendly drive is designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. When you're ready to use it, it wakes up automatically. |
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 54 more reviews...
 HugesStorage in a small quiet package August 24, 2008
Since I'm sure you understand the basics of an external hard drive so let me make this brief. This drive worked perfectly right out of the box. It is quiet, it is fast, the software provided is garbage trial-ware but you don't really care because you're going to delete it all when you reformat the drive to NTFS anyhow. 1TB for this price is fantastic. I've had the drive a month and it's great.
Best of luck to you.
Well Worth It August 24, 2008
This is my second WD drive and I must say they have not disappointed me one bit. The quietness and durability of these drives are awesome in my opinion. I have own them for over a year and no problem whatsoever. If you really need a large storage external drive, WD is the way to go.
If I need another drive, I would not hesitate to buy another external hdd from WD again. Go Western Digital !!
 Frustrating August 22, 2008
I got this for use as a backup drive using third party software. I've had a couple other WD drives which I liked fine. This one was a problem from day one, however. There were two major issues:
1) The drive would just randomly unmount/disconnect after a few hours.
2) The drive was painfully slow.
Unfortunately, I had some travel and was past 30 days when I returned. I tried several things -- too many, really -- to try to fix this without success. When I have time, I may remove the drive from the casing and see if it can be salvaged.
Meanwhile, I ordered a SimpleTech drive and it works like a dream, much faster with no complications, for the same price. I will be using SimpleTech in the future.
 Large capacity, poor performance August 15, 2008
August 15, 2008
This external drive was purchased for the large capacity it provides. The hard drive is enclosed in an attractive two piece plastic case. One piece mimics the cover of a book and is attractive glossy black. The other piece looks like the pages of a book and provides ventilation for the drive. A bright blue LED is located on the front of the drive. It is divided into two sections that blink in unison or alternately depending on function being performed. Overall, it is a very attractive unit.
Unfortunately, the case of the unit I received was not fitted together correctly causing one corner on the bottom of the unit to stick out slightly. This caused the unit to wobble. In additon to this problem, the performance of the drive was lackluster. After formatting the WD unit as one large NTFS drive (which took over 4 hours), I compared the WD unit with another external hard drive unit I own. The other drive consists of a Nexxtech USB external case housing a WD 200gb ATA/100 drive. The comparison consisted of performing a 7gb file copy from the local PC hard drive to each external hard drive. The copy consistently took approximately 6.5 minutes for the WD but only 4.5 minutes to the Nexxtech.
At this point, I have returned the unit due to the case defect. I have not decided yet if I will order a replacement due to the poor performance or look for another model on Amazon.
As always, Amazon customer service was excellent!
August 24, 2008
Decided to order another one since performance was not my #1 priority (though important). New drive just arrived and has a small scratch on cover right above LED which is annoyingly noticeable because of the shiny cover. Is it too hard to expect a product to arrive without cosmetic defects? Bought this unit because of the price but may end up getting an internal drive so that I don't have to worry about cosmetics (not to mention better performance since internal drive will use SATA connection).
Plug and Play External Drive August 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I currently have 2 terabytes of storage, 6 do-it-yourself "DIY" external drives housing various sized hard drives, and a MyBook. This review compares their performance. All drives are currently on-line connected to a 7 port USB hub.
In the Box
A black box housing the drive, a brick power supply, and a USB cable are key items. 2 instruction sheets, and a warranty card complete the kit. The My Book is about the size of a bible one finds in hotel and motel rooms.
The drive case, power and cables leave a very clean design. All my DIY drives comes with stands, awkward sized power supplies and cable placements that are not well thought through.
Installation
Simple: Plug the USB cable into the MyBook, and into your PC USB port. Plug in the power supply to AC and the MyBook.
The MyBook has no power switch, and turns itself on/off if the USB port is powered, when the PC is on.
The drive was recognized by WinXPSP2 without a hitch, and re-formatting the drive to NTFS was easy using WinXP built in disk utilities. The drive ships with FAT32 format, which is less desirable if NTFS can be supported. I backuped the shipped "trial" utilities inside the MyBook in case they were useful; they were not, and it was not clear were it was stored: C:\Program Files\Western Digital. I used Western Digital's disk utilities that shipped with my other drives to check partitions and drive status. These programs can also be downloaded free from Western Digital's web site.
Break-in
The drive ran over 1 week for 24/7 for a burn in, and has done a 24 hour long disk encryption format routine. it is currently a month old running 16 hours/day. Its surprisingly silent, and runs cooler than my DIY drives.
USB 2.0 Speed
It has a transfer rate of 10MB/sec. This is not the raw transfer rate, but includes delay from encryption I use. This is about 6x slower than the maximum USB transfer speed of 60 MB/sec but is the same rate as my other DIY drives.
Conclusion:
Excellent bang for buck. The cost to build a DIY external drive today may often be more than buying a pre-made external drive. USB 2.0 transfer speeds suggests the MyBook drive is a decent speed drive. The auto on/off feature is very helpful, given most DIY kits require manual power-down.
Note, there are a number of complaints about the higher end MyBook drives. The simple electronics of the low end 'Essential Edition' maybe the saving grace to this drive's performance, keep this in mind as the display boxes look the same. Further, all drives can malfunction, so a burn-in is a must to insure your drive is not among the few bad eggs.
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