Western Digital - 1Tb 7200 Rpm 16Mb Ext Hdd by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital - 1Tb 7200 Rpm 16Mb Ext Hdd
Digital camera Review: A helpfull item to save all your data
Summary: 5 Stars
It is very usefull to save big amount of data, like movies, series, music (mp3). Now I can move all the data in my local disks and have a lot of space there, I'm happy with it.Digital camera Review: A short lived Data Center on a shelf...
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased one of these almost a year to the day ago, and out of the blue Windows reports it can't connect because of a USB error - drive is not recognized. I've worked with it for the past several days, but to no avail. It is still under warranty according to their website, but I guess I just expected this thing to last for a while. But I guess that's just how business operates these days; build a zillion widgets in some far away land where people make 18 cents an hour, don't worry about quality or QC; So some units fail, we'll still be way ahead in the long run... If they do send a replacement I'll probably just sell it on eBay. Western Digital had a lot of problems with quality over 20 years ago, guess some things never change...Digital camera Review: Absolutely Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
Best thing I could have ever bought. It holds all my music & my games w/o tying up the memory on my harddrive. & if I fill it up, I can buy another one & use both simultaneously. It's wonderful. Installation was breeze & coming from someone who would have paid someone to plug it in, is saying a lot. Definitely worth the money.Digital camera Review: Acoid totally : Replaced umder warranty, fingers crossed, buyers beware
Summary: 3 Stars
Aug 31 2009 : The replacement unit for my first unit turned its toes up last week.
With this one I was only using it one a week for a 1hr 30 min backup. With all the time invested (a) changing the format to FAT32 to the other type I didn't even bother to ring WD. Straight back to Officeworks "WD have had a batch of units with power supply problems... I wasn't sure whether this was the power adaptor or something in the HD case itself. Whichever there was no way I was taking a 3rd one of one of these turkeys homne (in 6 months) and investing more of my valueable time.
Officeworks credited me back $AUD199 (the units are now on sale for $AUD159 and by Xmas they could be $AUD100).
I wouldn't take one of these even if they were free. A complete heap of junk... I never want to see that green box or that stupid blue light again.
My first WD 1TB external drive purchased in Mar 2009 had a short but chequered career... ultimately after a recent series of the drive not be accessible and a couple of hour long sessions on the phone to WD support in Singapore when after re-formatting the drive, I only had 1GB free space (but no files on the unit) they said take it back to where you bought it as there is nothing further we can do over the phone.
So I took it back to Officeworks (a sort of Australian Home Depot) and against my better judgement came home with a new replacement in a box. Secretly I would have loved to have come home with another make or model after my first experience.
So second time around I installed #2 closer to the desktop computer I use it on. #1 was connected via a 3m USB extension cord. Finding #1 is that having #2 connected on the factory supplied USB mini lead made no difference to the backup speed. Once again I reformatted #2 in NTFS format... this only takes a few minutes. I backed up the WD files on a separate USB stick first so as to be able to copy these straight back after formatting.
#2 device I've decided only to have running during actual backup... in my case Acronis True Image 2009 which takes about 2hrs a week to image 50GB.
So before starting this I plug in the WD AC adpator and then plug in the USB lead. #1 was probably running about 60hrs a week.
So in summary based on my experiences with my first WD drive I don't think these external drives are very robust (nothing like internal ones in this dept) and hope cutting usage back to actual backup time only will extend its life. I'm also planning to alternate Acronis backups to another external HD (not a WD but a Verbatim 250GB drive).
Based on my experience I wouldn't be solely relying on one of these drives for backup and certainly as an extension to a laptop or desktop they are not reliable enough in my experience to be used for extended every day usage. Perhaps my 3 stars should be a 2.
Digital camera Review: Amazing Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
Drive works perfectly. Came with lots of cable options (three). Amazing deal with a 5 year warranty!