Western Digital My Book Essential BACW0020HBK 2TB
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19 years ago
Western Digital My Book 500GB
Why is this external hard drive different from all other external hard drives?
19 years ago
Western Digital 320GB USB/FireWire My Book
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 remaining free space on the drive.
16 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
500GB My Book Premium eSATA/USB2
THIS IS ONE BAD ASS STORAGE DEVICE!!!
15 years ago
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB and My Book Essential 3TB Drives Reviewed
Two months ago I looked at the world's first 3TB desktop hard drive . It was a 5 platter, 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT inside an external GoFlex Desk chassis. The performance of the drive wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but the poorly ventilated chassis seemed ill equipped to deal with the thermal...
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
14 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB (WDBACW0030HBK) USB 3.0 External Storage Review
Western Digital sends us a large chunk of storage meat to evaluate. A 4x 750GB platter based Western Digital MyBook Essential 3TB with ...
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...
13 years ago
Western Digital My Book Essential 4TB Review
Western Digital has taken a "more is better" approach with its latest iteration of the WD My Book Essential HDD. The top model features a single 4TB drive and a USB3.0 interface to help speed up the process of filling it up.
Pros:
- Good value
- Includes backup software for Windows users
- Top availalable capacity for single-drive externals
Cons:
- Mac users and those PC users who want more performance to go along with raw disk size my want to consider the My Book Studio series
13 years ago
First time using a WD hard drive, currently doing brilliantly. Price is very good on Play-Asia.
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