1TB 7200RPM 16MB Ext HDD by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of 1TB 7200RPM 16MB Ext HDD
Digital camera Review: Beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
This drive has been a time saver. I hook it up to my xbox, watch movies and tv shows anytime, instead of watching them on the computer. Sometimes it goes to sleep and doesn't wake back up, so just a little pressing of the power button for 10 sec does the trick. Great Buy!!
Digital camera Review: Cheap case :-(
Summary: 2 Stars
Good price, good hard-drive but cheap case plastic :-(
Need an firmware upgrade !
Digital camera Review: Dependable
Summary: 5 Stars
Western Digital jut seems to do it right. Using this with "Apple's "Time-machine" is the best way to go. I have lot's or room and at a great price. Look's nice next to my G5 Power Mac too!Digital camera Review: Do NOT believe the marketing
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this device at Best Buy. I paid the extra money, because of the lure of the 3GB/s data transfer rate. I was EXTREMELY disapointed when I realized that the ACTUAL data transfer rate will NEVER exceed about 60 MB/s. I discovered that after being on hold with customer service for about 45 minutes. As the member of tech support informed me, the transfer rate tops out at about 60MB/s. However, that is ONLY if you are transferring files that are several gigabytes in size. If you are transferring a bunch of small to medium sized files, you will get the crappy performance that I received, which equates to a data transfer rate of 3-12MB/s. The 3GB/s, as stated by tech support, is only a THEORETICAL data transfer rate that MAY be available when solid state drives become available. It would be nice if this tid bit of information were on their website, or their packaging.
To their credit:
I purchased this device for a windows PC. Speaking of which, there was no information inside of the box for how to format the drive for windows (why put a windows logo on the outside of the box if you're not going to show how to make it pc ready on the inside???) However, one quick call to tech support showed me how to get it up and running in like 5 mins. Makes me wonder why I had to wait 45 minutes today.
Bottom line, I gave them 1 star, because had I known what I know now, I would not have spent the money to buy this drive to try and get an unattainable transfer speed. With that transfer speed, it will take like 6-8 hours to back up my laptop. That means that I'll be backing up my HD like once a year :(
Digital camera Review: Do NOT use on OS X
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a great product until most of my applications started to hung.
I thought it was because of OSX , so I reinstalled everything.
Same crap. I just unplugged everything from my computer, and everything worked great. Little by little, I plugged back all external HD I had, until it was the MyBook turn. Application hunging came back ! From my researches (thanks to the guys at #macosx@undernet.org channels), it looks like it is the enclosure of the HD. If you are going to use an external hard drive, you want to be sure that the enclosure will use OXFORD chips. Not like this one. GREAT HD, but not for OS X !