Western Digital Elements BPCK5000ABK 500GB
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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.
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
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.
13 years ago
Western Digital My Book (4TB)
The Western Digital My Book (4TB) ($209.99 list) desktop-class external hard drive gives the photo, music, or video collector a place to keep a whole lot of files. It's basic, utilitarian storage that will get the job done, and sometimes that's all you need.
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
13 years ago
I bought this for providing storage for a Freeview DishTV digital receiver via USB. It came with back up software which was surplus to my requirements. The Receiver reformatted it and recognized the drive without a hitch. All video seems to be stored and replayed without any problems.
15 years ago
Great Product
Im a computer tech and love to keep my files in order. This device is so easy to use and file items. It shows me how much space via the lights on the device or just hovering over the icon in lower tool bar. I highly recomend this for anyone who loves to organize their music and movie files.
10 years ago
My first HD
As is the description it is my first hd but sadly it needs power to run. Hd is very good in terms of read and write ratio. Out of 1tb only 989gb is available. Formating of the hd is also v easy. It can be connected to any pc or laptop and also to tvs for entertainment purpose.
9 years ago
It does what it needs to do.
I had it for quite a while and still working fine. I don't use it much and most of the time is off as I have it as backup but still I think is good. The only problem you may have is that it takes long for some systems to recognise it when you switch it on.
9 years ago
Must buy
Nice product... The only problem is we have to give power supply. No heating problem. I tested 3 computers and one hdd to hdd the maximum speed is 22-25 MBps
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