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Western Digital WDH1CS5000N 500GB USB 2.0 7200 rpm Hard drive External

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The Western Digital hard drive is designed to maximize desktop computer performance for activities requiring high-performance storage such as computer gaming, digital video editing, and file server applications.

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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 02, 2008 Type: User Review Firewire seems buggy - Where my ESATA CORD!

Honestly I love this HD, and the design is spectacular for space saving. However, I am a bit disappointed with the Firewire being fickle. For two days it worked fantastic, then all of a sudden (without a reboot or software install) the Firewire...
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 30, 2008 Type: User Review Great with Apple AEBS

I connected this drive to the USB port of my Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (i.e. as an AirDisk). It works great as a network drive in this configuration. The drive is a fast performer and over this network (802.11n) it is able to supply...
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 23, 2008 Type: User Review MAC USERS-- Run screaming into the night! Copy and paste from My Book to restore to Mac

I really had high hopes for this and it's probably great if you have a PC

So--I bought My Book to backup my Mac hard drive before I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. I used the WD Anywhere software for Mac that comes with the My Book....
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 22, 2008 Type: User Review Awful Backup Software

I bought 2 of these for our computer and our son's new school laptop. While the drive hardware works fine and can be connected via USB or Firewire or e-sata, the software is unacceptable.

On our XP machine, setup wasn't nearly as...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 28, 2008 Type: User Review Firewire support lacking

I have two of these, so I think they're OK...I do wish that instead of (or in addition to) the non-standard 6-wire IEEE1384 (firewire) cable, a compliant 4-wire cable was included. While the 6-wire configuration is fine for Macs most Wintel...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 14, 2008 Type: User Review Included Software is Garbage

I purchased this at a local big electronics box mart for $119. I purchased it for the fact that it had Firewire (my computer only has USB 1.1 and Firewire) and because it was larger than the two hard drives in my computer, combined.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 10, 2008 Type: User Review I just want to write and let the world know what kind of company this is. I have owned 3 Western digital (WD) hard drives. All 3

I just want to write and let the world know what kind of company this is. I have owned 3 Western digital (WD) hard drives. All 3 have not lasted longer then 2 years, the most recent has only lasted 1 yr.. 4 months. But the kicker of this situation...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 07, 2008 Type: User Review works great

this product works great! we bought this as a secondary back-up to another 500 GB drive. with 2 backup drives and 3 year warranties i am not worried about losing any digital pics!
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 01, 2008 Type: User Review The worst drive!

I have only had this drive for a year. My issues are it never mounts when it's suppose too. I have to keep restarting it to mount and it has died twice on me after a crash. Now I am trying to recover my files on it and not sure I will be able too....
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 30, 2008 Type: User Review Mine died just after warrantee expired, too! Wassup with that?

I have a different model, the My Book Essential, but it died just about a month after the warrantee expired, too! I see that there are a couple of other reviewers who lost theirs just after the end of the warrantee period. What's going on,...
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