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: Device Not Recognized
Summary: 1 Stars
This was my third external hard drive; I thought the price for this device was too good to be true, but I had faith in the WD name. After more than an hour, I was still unable to get this hard drive to work. My previous two drives were a breeze to install, but this one was absurd. The online "help" was useless, and even the various tips and tricks from online reviews did not work.
Even if I got the drive to work at this point, I'm still returning it. I need a drive I can rely on; if this one is so flakey right out of the box, what's it going to be like in a year?
Digital camera Review: Device performs it's tasks
Summary: 5 Stars
Fast and high-quality HDD. It works a day and night and I am very glad of this purchase.Digital camera Review: Died During Its Second Year
Summary: 1 Stars
I have over 10,000 mp3 files (which were already backed up) on the unit. One day, I used Explorer to search for a mp3 by title, and the drive hangs up and the Explorer just gives me a slow progress bar. I click around and the drive gets itself lost. I rebooted and it was fine...until I tried a search. Same thing. The drive hangs up. I can't access the drive. I can't turn it off and on again unless I reboot the computer.
I rebooted, and transferred all of my unbacked-up files to another external drive (Seagate) which worked fine as I was using that drive for storing files I don't often use as well as some backups.
Fortunately, it was still working enough to save everything before I decided to make it into a permanent doorstop.
I'm buying another brand. No more Western Digital.
Digital camera Review: Died after 6 months
Summary: 1 Stars
Our family purchased 3 of these (1 x 250) and 2 of the 500's here. We use them to supplement storage realtime and also for backup. Wish I would have read the reviews here first!
One of our 500 has just died. Most of the data is backed up (on another Western Digital unfortunately) but what a waste of time and money! We will not buy another Western Digital or Maxtor (similar experience) for a long time.
Update: Our second 500 GB Western Digital died after just 2 weeks of "primary" use (it had been our backup). Ordered a Calvary unit and it wouldn't even turn on out of the box - customer service recommended returning it. We bought a Seagate FreeAgent. Quite and fast - so far so good....
Digital camera Review: Died after a year.
Summary: 2 Stars
Like some of the reviews. I was very happy until last night when I tried to access the hard drive. I received the error, that it was not formatted and needed to be so. I have over 450gb of files, pictures, and home movies that I think are lost. I used it as a back up now the back up is fried. Please read all the reviews before you put your files, functionality, fate into this flounder.