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: Best bang for the buck drive in the 1TB category
Summary: 4 Stars
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1 TB External Hard Drive
My setup: IMac (w/Intel processor).
I bought this drive about a week back and hooked it up to my computer and right off the bat it found it and I could go ahead and read and write to it. So in that regard, WD did keep their word, this definitely was a plug-and-play thing with the Mac. In addition, the user manual is just a single page - so for all those Mac users (who hate manuals) this embraces the same philosophy.
The first thing I did after buying this was formatting it to HFS (for my Mac) from the default which is Fat32. This is not something that you *need* to do if you have a Mac, but I'd imagine Mac's would work better with HFS than Fat32. Doing this formatting with the Disk Utility on the Mac was a breeze.
The read speeds from the drive are pretty decent - although I'd imagine if you were doing intensive operations such as photo/video editing of files on this external drive you would see some lag. The write speed is ~30-35 Mbps, this is just a tad disappointing since USB 2.0 is supposed to support upto 400 Mbps. Then again, this could be the computer's fault and not this drives.
If you are like me, and plan on using this for back-ups (which will not be that frequent) and would be reading stuff a lot more from this drive than writing to it - then you really can not go wrong with this drive.
Style points: It does look pretty good . Some folks hate the glowing blue lights and feel they are too bright. I beg to disagree. The drive also powers off when the Mac is put on sleep, so the lights do not remain on all the time.
In conclusion, this is a great deal for $200 for a 1TB drive. It would have been perfect with a Firewire option -- hence the 4 stars.
Digital camera Review: Best brand - Great Price!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have tried Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate external hard drives and all have failed except Western Digital. You never know when your computer will fail and you lose pictures, home video, MP3s, etc. I trust Western Digital to back-up all data that I simply can't lose. This 1 TB is small and works perfectly. I just plug it in and it runs everytime.
Digital camera Review: Best of the Best
Summary: 4 Stars
PROS:
Ultra quiet drive - even when moving massive files, you can barely hear a thing.
Runs super cool - It makes my Buffalo drive feel like a space heater.
Attractive - Best looking external case by far.
No Fuss Operation - Device powers itself on&off with the PC.
CONS:
A manual front power switch have been nice.
Comes FAT32, had to format it to NTFS to avoid the file size limitations.
Overall, a worthy purchase and a downloaders must-have item. By the time you load your OS,games and applications, a 250GB internal doesn't cut it anymore.
Digital camera Review: Big Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Honestly, there is not too much to say about an external storage drive. The high points to me have to do with my ultimate satisfaction with Amazon. Name brand merchandise purchased at a very good value with excellent shipping terms and fulfillment reassurances; why would anyone want to drive to a store? This is a great buy and with this much room there is no excuse for not backing up everything you have.Digital camera Review: Big HD
Summary: 3 Stars
It is big not only in storage capacity, but also in size. It's fast and stable. The fact that it needs to plug in the power is anoynig sometimes.