Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDG1U5000 by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDG1U5000
Digital camera Review: Dangerous - This Drive Deletes Data
Summary: 1 Stars
You put the data on there, you turn it off, you turn it on and poof- data all gone. It's magic, but not the kind of magic you ever want to see worked on your valuable data. I would strong recommend that you avoid this drive. You shouldn't have to lose important stuff the way I did. Sad but true, this product won't protect your files- it will destroy them.Digital camera Review: Data loss
Summary: 1 Stars
Not only is this product noisy and loud, it is unreliable. Beware all potential customers, I lost all of my data. The only customer service option is to send it back for $500.00 for data recovery.Digital camera Review: Dead On Arrival
Summary: 4 Stars
UPDATE:- The replacement worked fine and so far 3 yrs after (cross fingers) no issues with either of my WDs!
The drive arrived and reported bad clusters from Windows. Tests using Western Digital's own utility initially reported bad sectors and asked to repair them - Now Im not a physics expert who knows magnetic theories quite well, but how do you "FIX" a bad sector?
In either case it "fixed" it successfully but rerunning the same diagnostic test and 6 hours later it returned "error code 8 too many bad clusters found".
Ive returned the item to amazon and they are shipping out another, let's see if this one is any better.. will keep you posted.
Digital camera Review: Death....
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had 2TBs worth of these 500gb drives die on me. i have lost sooooo much files its not even funny. I have one left and i am orderign drives from other brands and backing up everything like i am somekinds squirel or something. These drives have just over 1yr lifespan if your lucky. And theres no warnign sign. they just die...Digital camera Review: Definitely worth the price
Summary: 5 Stars
Great transfer speed, easy installation. It's probably the best value-for-money external hard drive for 500 GB capacity.