Western Digital Elements BPCK5000ABK 500GB
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18 years ago
WD My Book Home Edition 500GB
With hard drive prices crashing to crazy levels, now is as good a time as any to invest in additional storage. Western Digital has updated its external range, and it includes this new My Book Home Edition 500GB drive.
Pros:
- Choice of interfaces
- Quiet
- Value for money
Cons:
- Lacking performance
18 years ago
The WD My Book Home Edition 500GB is a cost-effective external hard drive which offers a flexible set of connections, but it's not very fast.
Pros:
- Lacking performance
Cons:
- Choice of interfaces
- Quiet
- Value for money
17 years ago
ATI Radeon X1650 Update: Passive cooling and DDR2
Recently we posted an article reviewing the Radeon X1650 Pro graphics cards by HIS and Sapphire. We have received cards by Gigabyte and MSI, and both manufacturers have tries to make something spaecial out of their versions: Gigabytes effort uses a c...
17 years ago
"Completely satisfied"
I bought this on the basis of knowing WD is a reliable brand, and I'm happy to say the results have been solid. I've owned this drive for around 10 months, and usually move large chunks of data around (between PC and drive) without any issues whatsoever.
Pros:
- Fast data-transfer (USB 2.0)
- reliable
- nifty look
Cons:
- FAT32 (if chosen
- noisy)
- USB 1.0 (potentially slow
17 years ago
This is an easy-to-use external hard drive for your computer. It is perfect for storing music, photos, videos and other files from your computer. Great for backing up all your files which is a must if you are like me who has lots of photos, videos and audio in my computer and need to make room in my...
17 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1 TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
I bought this and another My Book with the idea that I would be able to use the automatic backup software that was included. The Memeo software that's "included" with this My Book is TRIAL SOFTWARE however and you have to pay another $30 to use it.
17 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500GB review
Western Digital's 500GB My Book Essential Edition looks classy thanks to its glossy black case and glowing blue status indicator. It isn't expensive either, with a low cost per gigabyte of just 12p. The Essential was the fastest desktop USB disk here when writing small files.
17 years ago
A Great Hard Drive. Very Quiet.
I bought this hard drive to replace another from Cavalry that recently failed on me. I use it to gain a little extra storage for files I want to keep, but don't need access all the time.
Pros:
- Easy to use
- Fast
- High Capacity
- Quiet
Cons:
- Increases boot time
17 years ago
Great value! Easy to install
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Pros:
- Attractive Design
- Easy To Setup
- Easy to use
- High Capacity
- Portable
- Quiet
Cons:
- No Power Switch
17 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1 TB
Definitely not good for streaming movie files. I always have to hard reset my media center in order to unfreeze it from idle. If you run it constant then it works but once it sits idle for 3hrs, it's frozen until you either unplug it or hard reset the computer.
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