Western Digital My Book Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital My Book Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive
Digital camera Review: Clicking Sound of Death
Summary: 1 Stars
These are totally unreliable. I've had two die within the last year. Stay away! You've been warned.Digital camera Review: Connection does not work
Summary: 1 Stars
I will never buy Western Digital external drives again. "My book" crashes (blue screen) my Vista computer whenever i connect it to the computer using the IEEE1394 connection. I now have to use the slower USB connection. I'll see whether it will continue to blue screen.Digital camera Review: Couldn't be happier
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second time I purchased this product. The first one I am using for my Time Machine backups. This second one stores all my images, music and movies. These devices are silent, stable and unlike many competitive products which seem to favor a Windows OS architecture, the WD MYBook was Plug-And-Play for my Mac Mini running OS 10.5. A great value, they come highly recommended by me, if that carries any weight.Digital camera Review: Crashed after 6 months
Summary: 2 Stars
Disk crashed after 6 months of use. All the data on it was wiped out, just like that. I have an IOmega that sits right next to the WD, and that has been running fine for over 2 years, so I know its not something in my PC or the heat in the stand that caused the crash.
On the plus side, Western Digital has a replacement service that is easy to use and they shipped the replacement drive out fairly quickly.
Digital camera Review: DO not trust Western Digital!
Summary: 1 Stars
i have the 500gb and 250gb
250gb died after 1.5 years (last week) - so the warranty is out
500gb died after 1.1 years (today) - so the warranty is out
btw, i didn't die of power surge, that's what the customer service blame on.
losy 50gb of pictures! memories, yes, i didn't get backup thinking of getting it next month since i'm busy with work!
even the warranty is in, would you dare to send in for warranty with all your personal stuff in there? plus they don't warranty recovery.
search around the internet for failure of this drive, you will get plenty. Plus some side show you how to open the case and try the hard drive on the external drive to recover your drive. Most of the case, it won't work. Will not buy anything from this company. Try Seagate that has better quality.
for some reason i got to repost...it got deleted...mught be BELKIN situation