Western Digital My Book Essential BAAF0010HBK 1TB
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14 years ago
Western Digital has been a leader in the hard drive and solid state drive market for over 20 years. With a reputation like that it's no surprise that the Western Digital My Book Essential has snatched up our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award for the best desktop external hard drive you can buy.
Pros:
- This drive secures data with several different avenues of encryption
Cons:
- When reformatted to use with a Mac
- only USB 2.0 connectivity is available
15 years ago
Big let down
I bought this product a couple days ago. I tried to back up files on it tonight and found the product to be in read only mode. I tried using the unlocking program with it- and it said it was for different operating system or the drive was locked. DUH! I am returning the product in the morning.
15 years ago
DO NOT BUY!
This is not a standard USB hard drive. It has a virtual CD image that is NOT REMOVABLE. You cannot format it away, it just sits there and takes up about 600MB of your drive space. From what I've read (after purchase unfortunately), you cannot remove this drive from the enclosure and put it in a PC...
13 years ago
WD My Book Essential 2TB XHD
Two days later, after using it with no problem hours earlier, this thing just wouldn't be recognized by Windows. It was in Device Manager, but didn't have a drive letter assigned and it was impossible to assign one, because it refused to allow me to initialize the disk!
Pros:
- It looks pretty cool, and if it had worked out would have been a slick addition to my desktop
- Unfortunately, it didn't work out.
Cons:
- I'll keep it brief: This thing sucks
- It worked perfectly fine for the first 2 days I had it, without any issue whatsoever, so I was pumped to finally have the storage we needed to save our family photos
14 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition WDG1U5000 500 GB: Old reliable?
Good, but not perfect
Pros:
- Good value
- probably quite reliable
- some minor shock proofing
Cons:
- not enough shock proofing
- a 50% track record of failure (in my case)
- requires independent power
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.
16 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.
Pros:
- Excellent capacity
- Fanless.
Cons:
- Had trouble with our benchmark tests
- Lacks capacity indicator
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...
15 years ago
WD Book rocks
This is my 2nd WD drive, my first was a WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA, this one is an external USB2.0 drive so I didnt expect it to be as fast. It is not bad actually, just takes a little longer to spin up. Im not sure whats the drive model inside the enclosure since I never opened it.
Pros:
- Excellent speed for external USB 2.0 drive
- Reliable after about a years operation.
Cons:
- It gets warm after a while Seek noise could be quieter
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 .
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