Western Digital Elements BPCK5000ABK 500GB
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14 years ago
REVIEW: Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB external hard drive
If you're looking to do some super-quick, super-painless PC spring cleaning, you'll want to grab an external hard drive with USB 3.0 transfer speeds. Western Digital's My Book Essential range offers as much as a massive 3TB of external storage, and transfer speeds three times as fast as USB 2.0...
14 years ago
Perfect for USB 2.0 only
This hard drive sometimes tends to not be recognised by my Win 7 64 bit when I plug it in to USB 3.0. Even though you succeed in it you it may disappear afterwards and it is not easy to get it back. Restart of system doesn't help. whereas there are no issues so far with USB 2.0.
14 years ago
The hard drive is of good quality, though the included software is absolutely trash. An experienced user would fmt the hd as soon as they get it, but I suggest non-experienced users to do so as well.
Pros:
- Sturdy external hard drive
Cons:
- software that comes with it is horrible and confuses "newbs
14 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB
It comes with 2 TB of storage .The scores are pretty decent for 2 TB drive .Its a definitely good buy .
14 years ago
The Western Digital My Book series of external hard drives have been a part of our daily lives since a good part of the last decade. The WD My Book hard drives are the household standard for data storage and backup, easily available in every high street retailer and for a very reasonable price as...
14 years ago
Just what I'd expect
eSATA would be nice instead USB, or perhaps both. Thinking I may remove the drive from the enclosure, and stick it in another enclosure.
Pros:
- Small, lightweight, and looks fine sitting on your desk
- I bought one and loaded it up with approximately 900gb of random content over the first week
- No issues yet
Cons:
- The WD software is annoying
- I don't use it, and don't plan to
- You cannot actually remove it from the drive itself
- I suspect it's not on the drive itself, but flashed to a board just before the drive
- Have not confirmed this yet
15 years ago
Hardware good, software confusing
WD's software for this big 2TB drive can get in the way of Apple's excellent Time Machine backup program, unless you find your way around it-without instructions to that effect. Otherwise, it seems to work OK, and the price is right for May, 2011.
15 years ago
An Excellent Storage Device That Holds Loads Of Data
Although my laptop has a fair amount of hard disk space, I prefer to store my music, movies & photos on external drives and up until recently I've got by on a couple of Western Digital Passports with 360gb each.
15 years ago
My Book Essential 3 TB
External hard drives are a nice storage- and back up media, but when getting one you must first choose the connection you want. Network drives are handy if there are many users of PCs sharing the same data, e-SATA has been a fast, dedicated connection for external drives, and then there's USB.
Pros:
- Compact
- Fast
- Stylish
Cons:
- Limited backup software
15 years ago
Great Product for backup
I needed a larger backup hard drive. The My Book Essential meets my needs perfectly. I had already been using my own backup software so did not need the software that came with the My Book.
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