Western Digital My Book Office Edition Hard Drive - WDH1B5000N - with Automatic Backup & Remote Access Feature!
Western Digital My Book Office Edition 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Mfg Part#: WDH1B5000N
UPC: 00718037122212
Buy.com Sku: 205761518
Item#: C4MD2L
Buy.com Sales Rank: 81456
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That 200-page business plan, your e-mail records, all your company’s digital assets…what could be more important? Store them safely and keep them backed up on My Book Office Edition external hard drives. On the road? Take advantage of free lifetime remote access to your files on this drive.

Ideal For:

  • Continuous and automatic backup of your important digital assets
  • Extra storage for your computer
  • Archiving business documents and e-mail
     
  • 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; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in.
    Automatic backup - Back up important data to multiple destinations including file servers, portable drives, and My Book. Synchronize working files to keep them current and secure. Set it and forget it; every time you save a change it's automatically backed up.
    MioNet DriveAccess™ - You can access this drive from anywhere and securely share the files on it free for the lifetime of the drive as long as the computer it’s attached to is turned on. (Windows only*)
    Small business tools - Take control of your desktop remotely, share a computer screen for online meetings, and gain access to files on any of your computers These MioNet premium services are free for one year.
    (Windows only*)
    USB 2.0 interface - A simple connection that offers convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.
    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.
    Capacity gauge - See at a glance how much space is available on your drive.
    Smart and energy efficient - Turns itself on and off with your computer and Safe Shutdown™ prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written.
    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.
    PC and Mac compatible - Works with both Windows® 2000/XP/Vista and Mac® OS X 10.4.8 or later

     
    Tech Specs
    Performance
    Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0): 480 Mbits/s (Max)

    Physical
    Capacity: 500 GB
    Interface: USB 2.0

    Physical Dimensions
    Height: 6.5 Inches (Max)
    Length: 5.4 Inches (Max)
    Width: 2.1 Inches
    Weight: 2.5 Pounds

    Environmental
    Operating: 41° F to 95° F
    Non-operating: -4° F to 149° F

    Electrical
    AC Input Voltage: 100-240 VAC
    AC Input Frequency: 47-63 Hz

    Warranty
    Warranty: 3 Years

      
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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
     
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    0 of 1 customers found 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.
     
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    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!
     
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    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.
     
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    5 of 5 Excellent Saturday, May 10, 2008
    newbest from Hallandale Beach FL  
    Excellent Product. Very efficient
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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