"Drive failed critical functionality, plus poor support"
From the start, this drive was difficult to work with. Although setting up the RAID1 config was easy, It was often unrecognized by windows even after installing and re-installing the drivers. The...
I decided to ignore the negative reviews warning about the noise levels of this and when I found it on a great sale I picked one up. "How loud can it be?" I thought. Well, PRETTY LOUD - and...
The only downside to this little unit is the speed. other than that, it's a great little unit.. easy to setup, lots of features. Being based on a linux system, it's easy to find external sites on...
Network hard disks, of which the new Western Digital My Book World is one, sit on a home network and allow users to copy files to and from their computers or from other devices. For instance, you...
Network hard disks, of which the new Western Digital My Book World is one, sit on a home network and allow users to copy files to and from their computers or from other devices. For instance, you...
This product was great to use once I had my computer buddy set it up for me. Fast file transfer but difficult to do for a beginner level computer person.
I found this NAS drive to be adequate performance and overall a decent investment. The web inteface to configure the device is slow to access despite on a 1GB switch. The folders are renamed to...
As I said, with work you can work your way thru the install for 1 drive, but if you try to install 2 World Edition drives on the same home LAN, using the MIONET software provided, you will find...
First of all ,I am using it on an xp server machine. I cannot boot the pc up with the hd connected . One must boot and then plug in the power to MyBook and let Windows detect it. After googling...
Quite possibly it is pre-formated to FAT32 so your PS3 will recognize it, without your having to search for a program to format it to FAT32 (Been there, done that)
I have been using this connected via FW800 for about 6 months now with no problems at all. My primary drive gets backed up to this drive every night - it worked perfectly right out of the box
I have a Macbook with a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo drive and 2 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running OS X Leopard. I bought this drive about three hours ago. I brought it home, unpacked it, and started it up...
Liked this product, but only had a one year warranty. It died after 2 years of use. No way to recover data without 3rd party intervention. It makes a very beautiful paperweight.
I have had 4 of these Western Digital 500 GB USB 2.0 drives(and one also had the eSATA option). I also have 3 of their 1 TB USB drives, and I've used 3 of their older 80 GB USB drives too. As you...
We will discuss a new external solution from Western Digital supporting three different interfaces: FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. As you will see from the results of our test session it...
About 6 months after purchase, unit failed to be recognized. Sent in for repair, they sent back a refurb, which failed same way after 8 months. They wouldn't replace drive. Stay away!
This Western Digital 320 GB MyBook external hard drive is a snap to set up. It's easy to save your My Pictures and My Documents files. Saving your emails is a different matter entirely. I...
Right away it's clear to see where the name of the product comes from - it looks like a book! The front of the My Book has two clear rings. The inner ring is lit with a blue LED to show the...
I really liked the Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition , which yokes two 1TB hard drives together to provide a terabyte of mirrored (RAID 1) storage. Think of the Western Digital My Book Studio...
I primarily got this to use as an eSata drive, and as an external eSata drive, it is absolutely terrible. For whatever reason, as others have mentioned, this drive periodically goes to 'sleep',...
After I purchased Western Digital's My Book Studio Edition (500GB) external hard drive, I went to check whether it had actually backed up my data using Apple's Time Machine. When I tried to open...
Unlike some of the other My Books and despite saying on the box that it's XP/2000/vista ready, the studio is only plug and play on the Mac. Plug it directly in to a PC and it will not show up as a...
Interesting note, however, it is noisy. Time to turn on the power saving features that suspend HDs if you want to be able to think over the dull noise.
Prior to connecting the My Book, my G5 ran problem-free. After connecting the drive, I experienced multiple crashes. Sometimes the icon for the drive would show on the desktop, and other times it...
Western Digital's My Book Studio caters primarily to Mac users, but it can be used on PCs, too. It's a versatile drive, which can be plugged into any computer thanks to the inclusion of four...
I recently purchased this drive for use with my PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2002. It worked right out of the box and after setting it up for RAID-1 I was able to transfer a few test files. However...
Would be great, if the silly thing didn't unmount itself for no reason. Usually when there's no activity, although I dread the day is happens in the middle of a video edit. (There are reports...
I have been Very happy with my purchase. It runs great on my Macbook pro. I run it in raid 0 as a storage backup for my photography business. It was easy to setup and runs very fast (I run it on...
This drive started acting funky from the very beginning. It was noisy and the fan would come on for no apparent reason. It would appear that it may have just over heated itself into oblivion. I...
I thought this drive would finally release me from my worry that my backups will melt away before my eyes. The Greenpower concept seems well and good but I don't know about the long term viability...
We've long been encouraging people to invest in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. They let you store all your commonly used files, like music, videos, pictures, and maybe even spreadsheets...
This drive has an unreal slow data transfer rate. I thought I had network issues, but I went straight to the drive thought the switch and it is so slow there is no way to use it, I wish I could...
I must say I was hesitant about opening the package after reading some of these reviews on the WD My Book, but what the heck I thought. I can always return it. It is amazingly small and quiet. I...
Just attach this drive to your network and figure out the IP address the drive is using (typically 192.168.0.x). Then in your web browser type in the IP address (mine is http:192.168.0.10) to...
We've long been encouraging people to invest in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. They let you store all your commonly used files, like music, videos, pictures, and maybe even spreadsheets...
"drive is a little slow but ok, do not install mionet"
Overall i think the product is pretty good, would rank it in the category of " I don't feel like I got burned" and once I figured out that mionet was my problem I have been pretty happy. My...
I'm using this HDD for music, movies, and photos. I'm huge on media so when I saw this HDD for $99 I knew I couldn't go wrong. It's stylish and quiet for it's size. I've had this for almost one...
I set this drive as a Time Machine backup for my Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5. The drive is absolutely stunning especially with the pretty led lights in the front. It was great for... two days, and it...
I will just add my confirmation that this drive works for the purpose of archiving material from your DishNetwork DVR. I have Dish Network with the Turbo HD package (I'm not sure what my DVR model...
I purchased this hard drive mostly for back-up purposes and chose this particular one for it's size and firewire connection. I did not use the included software since this drive is connected to a...
Right away it's clear to see where the name of the product comes from - it looks like a book! The front of the My Book has two clear rings. The inner ring is lit with a blue LED to show the...
Bought this for my daughter's new Dell laptop. This product comes with trail software which means use it for 30 days and then you have to buy it for 39.99, Ther is no users manual so if you don't...
There isn't much to this My Book Essential Edition drive. In fact, it's aptly named as you won't get any unnecessary features or connections. It's small, button-less and, apart from a distinct blue...
Good drive .... but comes with a junk power supply
WD is known for its hard-drives and I think they should stick to just that. I bought this drive about 6 months ago from an online retailer. The drive works slower than a cheaper, unbranded make I...
"Died in less than a year - recertified disk inside"
Basically the problem with the product is mine was a recepticle for an unwanted recertified disk. Combine this with poor thermal design (no ventilation and plastic enclosure) and the results is a...
Purchased item with no problem and it has been working for less than a year perfectly! However, I am a bit annoyed that it is not really 500 GB, but rather 465GB which is a big difference!! If it...
There isn't much to this My Book Essential Edition drive. In fact, it's aptly named as you won't get any unnecessary features or connections. It's small, button-less and, apart from a distinct blue...
I have had this drive for about a month now and I am loving it. All you have to do is hook it up, pop in the included software, and you are ready to roll. It does not make much noise and has more...
The software installation took nearly 20 minutes. That was the first Bad Omen. Then, with the DC power plug in the unit, the drive's "ON" blue light was intermittant. It seems that Quality...
I've owned this drive for about five months at this writing, and use it to store all my video and music files (both mp3 and wav). And I still have 400GB of free space!
I wish I had read the previous two reviews... they were spot on regarding this product! I bought the 160GB model specifically for photo storage, and talk about slow! Also, it sat by my monitor and...
The Western Digital MyBook Premium Edition external hard drive is physically portable but still humongous in terms of capacity. The 500GB unit we tested offered the most mixed performance of any...
The drive does what it's supposed to--holds data. Compact, not unattractive, and reliable to this point (6-12 months). Using it as a time machine drive for two macbooks (via firewire) and as a...
Rápido para lectura, lento para escritura. Es tolerante a fallos y no pierde la información. Pero presenta problemas muy frecuentemente, para resolver estos problemas es necesario realizar...
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