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| Customer Reviews |  | | Value |  4.5 | | Performance | 4.5 | | Ease of Use | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4.5 |
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5 of 5 works great Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Customer from Boston, MA
Use it for Time Machine auto backups on iMac and it has performed perfectly. Great drive, no complaints Was this review helpful?  
5 of 5 Western Digital My Book Office Edition Tuesday, September 16, 2008
teresawillis from Miramar Beach, FL 32550-5272
Simple to install and use, and it comes formatted as NFTS which elimnates the step of re-formatting from FAT32 which seems to be norm for similar products. Also, has on/off button (my others have to be unplugged). The diagnostics software is a great feature. Researched all relative products on net and found it to be the best for the price, looks, weight and quality. I'm a very satisfied customer and highly recommend Western Digital products. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Exactly what I wanted! Friday, June 20, 2008
A Customer from Las Vegas
Easy to install, easy to use. Great for backing up. Love it! Was this review helpful?
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
4 of 5 Bundled Software Annoying Tuesday, June 03, 2008
A Customer from New York, NY
The hdd itself works great and was extremely easy to set up. The bundled software is a little annoying as I haven't had time to figure out how to disable it from starting when windows loads. And to piggyback off of other comments, the activation process is confusing since the software is a year long trial version.
Overall, I'm very happy with the hdd. Very sleek, smaller and lighter than I thought. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Excellent Saturday, May 10, 2008
newbest from Hallandale Beach FL
Excellent Product. Very efficient Was this review helpful?
4 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
3 of 5 Software driver much to be desired. Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Don H. from Buffalo, New York
Even though Western Digital claims their product is a plug and go drive they are not telling the whole story. After I finally found the driver on line, it turns out not to work with XP's backup program in the operating system. You are then forced to use W.D. back up software which as far as I can see does not allow the user to program a set time and day for backup. You either have the backup on or off. As far as the performance of the drive it does operate very nice. The other software which they claim you can access your drive away from home is only a 30 day trial. After which you pay $30.00, and the software conflicts with XP. Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Problem with MioNet Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Liboriogomez from Atchison, Kansas
Everything works fine, except the MioNet. It shut down my Windows XP operating system when I tried to set it up for use. So, it's useless to me. The storage part works well. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Just in time! Tuesday, April 15, 2008
A Customer from McMinnville, OR
Two computers were choked with data. Now they're quick and nimble again and Western Digital drive has lots of room to spare. Some enclosed software didn't want to uninstall. Price was fantastic. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Best Value Monday, April 14, 2008
New(Happy) XPS owner from Charlotte, NC
Plug and Play
Easy and Fast Data Transfer
Best Value for your Money. Nuff Said. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 External Hard Drive Saturday, March 08, 2008
pbenz1 from Merrill, WI
It is a great piece to work with. Ease of putting my info that I wanted to keep on here. Hook up was easy also. Was this review helpful?
2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
4 of 5 Great piece of Hardware Tuesday, March 04, 2008
sierrareal1 from Whetstone, AZ
The hardware execution is virtually flawless. Western Digital has made a very solid piece of equipment for a small business network and loaded it with some useful software to facilitate its use. Unfortunately the software falls a bit short of Western Digitals standards for their hardware. The "back-up" utility loaded easily and did a good job of retrieving and "backing up" most of the files, however, some files seem to cause a problem in their path, and the unit continuously searches for them in an attempt to "back them up". There is no utility that I've found yet for "excluding" certain specific files from its search. Also, the other software comes as "trail" versions, with some confusion resulting from trying to "decipher" whether the "activation code" provided will make them "full versions" or not.
The back-up also continuously siphons resources from the computer, and uses Network resources as it constantly "updates" backed up files. There is no software adjustment provided for altering how often the unit checks computers on the network for changes. That would help a lot, and make the product a "five star" across the board. Was this review helpful?
0 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Replacement for lost item Friday, December 21, 2007
stu_hoag from Winfield Kansas
Very happy with results after product was reported "lost in transet" Received replacement item in timely action. Thanks. Was this review helpful?
2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Great External Hard Drive Wednesday, November 28, 2007
paul20436 from Walnut, CA
Very easy to install the software, except the software that came with the Drive would not work with my computer (Dell desk top running Microsoft XP Professional). I had to contact the software vendor that came with the External Drive (Memeo) and they had me download a brand new version of the Memeo AutoBackup software and now everything works perfectly, fast, as I expected it should etc. I am very happy with the unit. Was this review helpful?
4 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Solid Performer (Mac User) Friday, November 16, 2007
A Customer from Aberdeen, NJ
I managed to pick this one up for $139 with free shipping and actually got it the next day to my pleasant surprise. It was a breeze out of the box to plug it in and start using it right away. (True plug & play). As a Mac user, didn't have much use for the auto backup software and the remote access is apparently only for Windows users so mac users looking for that feature, look elsewhere. I quickly & easily reformatted (Mac Journaled format) and have had no issues with the drive. It's quiet and the sleek silver/aluminum casing looks nice with the Mac. The external "gauge" isn't very useful but looks pretty. All in all, this is a great value and I was very happy with the purchase. Was this review helpful?
2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Excellent Friday, November 02, 2007
A from here
Very easy to use. Don't use the software that they offer though. I use Norton's backup feature. Was this review helpful?
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