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)
Summary The following is a summary of the more detailed analysis of the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS hard drive. For all the in-depth analysis and testing you'd expect from us, be sure...
I ordered this drive a few months ago when it was on sale for well under 300 dollars. There's a firmware update that's available if its noise bothers you. So far it's provided reliable service...
I invested in it only 2 months ago and was sure it will work. It's extremely slow. Sometimes it connects to the computer sometimes it doesn't and tells me cannot find the program. Sometimes while...
Very portable, somewhat reliable, with a few drawbacks
I have had my Passport for a little over a year. It is not the same size drive, but as most of the products should function similarly, I felt like this should be very relevant.
Western Digital has revamped its My Passport line of portable notebook hard drives with the My Passport Elite range. Available in 250GB and 320GB options, the new range offers users a sleeker,...
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 purchased this 500 GB drive to replace a smaller one I had. The drive works flawlessly and stores a lot of data. This is especially useful because I use a Mac at home and Windows at work. I am...
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...
good backup hdd, have it 1 day, so far so good, will update if need be. it does take forever to back up the first time--5 hrs to back up 40gbs thru firewire, more than enough storage (pc has only...
Worked great for about 14 months; Then the drive started to disappear on my PC. After doing many things. New Firmware update, different cable, tweaked, updated, and rolled back drivers to no...
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...
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...
This drive is very quiet and cool, i have to say transferring my data to it was slooow , i had that problem with a lacie 1TB drive but on the WD once the data was on it it was quick to access it, i...
this hard drive is very slow, at 1st i thought its my computer so I tried it on other computers and it took me about an hour to move 3gb of data, burning 2.5 hour movie onto a dvd is about 3 gb and...
based on the other reviews, i got this drive about 4 months ago. plugged it up, worked great, i was having a blast and used it primarily for my music collection, which was outgrowing my current...
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...
My Book Pro II/Premium II family great; problems with Vista.
This review covers the family of My Book Pro II/Premium II drives from Western Digital, since the primary differences between the 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0Tb dual-drive models involve the size of the drive...
Cant find if each backup is only changes since last use or complete copy of everything. Can't tell if more than 1 PC can be copied & separated. Skimpy manual (8 pages + cover sheet) refers often to...
I formatted this HD right out of the box to get rid of the pre-installed sync/backup software. I prefer to figure my own way to backing up my data, and I gain more control over the device as...
Very portable, somewhat reliable, with a few drawbacks
I have had my Passport for a little over a year. It is not the same size drive, but as most of the products should function similarly, I felt like this should be very relevant.
Notebook users would be wise to keep a portable backup of their drives contents, as they are prone to dying at a young age from being moved around so much. Western Digitals solution to this...
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...
Very portable, somewhat reliable, with a few drawbacks
I have had my Passport for a little over a year. It is not the same size drive, but as most of the products should function similarly, I felt like this should be very relevant.
This drive was DOA. I tried using on Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Home Premium systems and it didn't work on either. I must have got the dud drive and I returned it.
Notebook users would be wise to keep a portable backup of their drives contents, as they are prone to dying at a young age from being moved around so much. Western Digitals solution to this...
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 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...
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