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: Disappointed in this WD hard drive...
Summary: 2 Stars
I had owned a WD 80gb external hard drive for a year before buying this WD 500gb external hard drive. I was VERY happy with the 80gb, but just as equally disappointed in the 500gb drive. This drive locks up my computer and will not let my computer boot up on a regular basis. I have to manually unplug the hard drive EVERY TIME I restart my computer. The only reason that I am giving it 2 stars, is because it does store data.
I called WD about the problem and wrote to them but they were no help and offered no solution. As such, I am getting ready to purchase another external hard drive in the near future, but will not be purchasing another WD product because of their lack of support. I would strongly urge everyone to look at the reviews here and decide for yourself! Good luck...
Digital camera Review: Do not buy this - you may lose data
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't buy this if you think your power will ever go out, or you might pull the plug.
My hard drive was getting full. I had lots of family photos and music files and various other stuff. So i bought the Western Digital 500GB My Book and 'moved' 62G of files onto it. A week later I go to find something and there are no, zero nada files on it. I do notice that the drive letter shows that there is only 420GB free. First help person says, did you ever unplug it. Sure I say, afterall it's a hard drive like the one in your PC you should be able to turn off power. He says oh your data is gone then!!!!
I tell him that there must be something on there taking up that space but he doesn't understand me so i ask him to escalate (we're dealing with India now). Finally after several hours and requests to escalate since I know there is data on there, I get a very smart person who understands right away what i am saying regarding only 420GB free, must be data on the drive. He has me run some sort of scan and it finds all my files!!!! Whoohoo right?
Wrong, it just finds the data, and gives them new filenames like 000001.chk, 000002.chk, 000003.cha and so on for 30,000 files or so. The help desk guy then sympathises and recommends some software, you can purchase, that will go through all the files and put the correct extensions on them.
So hour and days later i have 3,000 .txt files with no names, and 2,000 .jpg files and 5,000 .ppt .... and so on. Now i get to open each one and name it appropriately.
Do you want to go through this experience? If you have no fear that your power will ever go out, or you'll accidently pull the plug then go ahead, buy it.
I do own a Maxtor exernal for my other PC, 2 years now, multiple power downs and no data loss.
Digital camera Review: Does the job
Summary: 5 Stars
Like other WD drives, this unit does a good job and I find it reliableDigital camera Review: Does what I expected, at a good price.
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a product that does what it is supposed to do, with NO glitches. I copied over 290 GB of MP3's in about six hours, and am enjoying them now. 62,000 songs, all happily living in a plastic book shaped drive. Quiet, pretty, and smart. Like a good woman.Digital camera Review: Does what it needs to do
Summary: 4 Stars
This product does what it needs to do. You have to manually back up your information to it. Pretty easy setup just plug it in and off you go. Comes up as a My Book (k) on my computer.
I like that it shuts off when my computer goes to sleep, this will help with the life of the hard drive because it isn't running all the time. I would give it a 5 star if it has auto-backup on it.