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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Value |  4.5 | | Performance |  4 | | Ease of Use | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4 |
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1 of 5 Just doesn't work Monday, July 21, 2008
A Customer from Fairfax, va
Like a few others on here, my computer first wouldn't see the drive, then I switched which USB port is was in, and it saw it?(my other drive works find in the original USB port). I can't write to the drive...even one small .jpg. It constantly freezes up my computer (it's high end with plenty of power), and as of now it's useless. I wouldn't buy another one and I'm contacting buy.com to see what they can do or recommend. It was a huge disappointment. Was this review helpful?  
5 of 5 A.O.K. Sunday, July 20, 2008
Brent from Lorton, VA
I've had this hard drive for about 2 weeks. So far it's working just fine. I have it connected as NAS to an 802n Apple Base Station. I've found that the hard drive will spin down when it isn't used for a bit (not sure how long, but less than 1 hour). But, at least for the Mac users, I've found that you will have to repartition the drive before formatting it. You need to do this to change the partition table. The Apple Disk Utility can do this for you, and of the options available you'll have to select the partition table you want for the task(s) that the hard drive will do - the options are explained in the Apple Disk Utility. After repartitioning, it's been working fine at about 930GB. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Seamless performance x2 Sunday, July 20, 2008
-FG- from Doylestown, PA
This is my second USB-connected 1GB MyBook from WD. They came formatted as FAT, so I immediately reformatted them as NTFS partitions, and have had no problems with either. I use them for my main system backup storage (2x daily), alternating them weekly so even if one of them fails, I will never lose more than a week's worth of new data if my main system also fails.
The only performance issue is that because they are USB devices, it takes a while for full backups, but that's the limitation of the USB-II interface, not the fault of the drive(s). It's the best 'bang for the buck' I have found, and I have had no reliability issues with either one. Even so, I would not use only one for primary storage -- I believe in always having a backup. ;) Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great External Storage Sunday, July 20, 2008
deanruben@gmail.com from Cumberland, MD
This is the second WD Mybook terabyte external for me. It works flawlessly. I'd be lost without it. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Works great Sunday, July 13, 2008
A Customer from New York, NY
At 190 bucks, this was a steal. Runs nice and cool, and in NTFS, it's the best 1 TB hard drive available. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Works Fine So Far Sunday, July 13, 2008
wordwonk from Boca Raton, Florida
I added this device to my external storage storage devices to store approximately 66,000 music tracks, and as a backup for my video files. I have additional space to which I am backing up my desktop PC. It was a fabulous price too.
It's all good! :>)) Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 nice and quite Saturday, July 12, 2008
A Customer from TX
drive work like it should. nice design and quite Was this review helpful?
2 of 5 Don't do it. Monday, June 30, 2008
Ed Trillo from Los Angeles, CA
I am a pro photographer so I need tons of external storage for my files (I shoot in Raw format so each picture is 14mb each, and I shoot hundreds/thousands of shots per photoshoot). I have lots of external storage devices and it seems that all the ones with Western Digital drives crap out on me more frequently and sooner than Seagates (I only buy WD or Seagates).
TWO of my WD Mybooks have already failed. One was working perfectly fine, until I shut it off safely and re-plugged it into another computer. It then showed up as "E:Local Drive" and when I clicked on it to browse, it asked if I wanted to format it. UGH. Thankfully I have a copy of Active@ Undelete Pro and I was able to recover all my files (after about 6 days of transfer time), to my Seagate external drives.
I can't even start to tell you how many of my Western Digital internal drives have failed on me in the past too. Anyway, if you have a choice in two drives of similar capacity and price, and one of them was WD, I'd go with the other. Was this review helpful?
2 of 5 Plug and play Saturday, June 21, 2008
valimdj@gmail.com from France
But if you have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with winxp sp2 your "plug" will worck but the "play" you will have to search for it. And if you find something just tell me cos I searched 15H and didn't find anything Was this review helpful?
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4 of 5 Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential USB 2.0 Monday, June 09, 2008
Matt from West Lafayette, Indiana
Western Digitial is dedicated to quality and it shows.
Not enough good things to say about this hard drive.Not a single problem yet...and I don't expect one! AND buy.com was able to have the cheepest price on the market at the time! Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Western Digital 1TB MyBook Essential USB 2.0 Exter Thursday, June 05, 2008
Robby from San Francisco, CA
So far so good. The drive works well without any glitches. Online FAQ is very helpful when it comes to converting FAT to NFTS. The only thing I was sad about was that the casing scratches easily. Was this review helpful?
1 of 5 Impractical Friday, April 04, 2008
lukeyes@hotmail.com from Seattle, WA
I am extremely disappointed with my purchase of this item. I was looking for an external hard-drive to store video. However, since the hard-drive is formatted in FAT32 with no ability to reformat it to NTFS, the drive has a 4 GB file size limit.
A 4 GB max file size on a 1 TB drive? Impractical, just impractical. A waste of money for people who want to use this drive for video. Was this review helpful? |
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