Western Digital My Book Essential BACW0020HBK 2TB
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12 years ago
Western Digital My Book 4 TB (WDBACW0040HBK) Review
Western Digital's My Book series has been around for some generations now, catering to users who want huge capacity but are not necessarily looking at portable drives. With the My Book 4TB drive WD offers a desktop drive with the maximum capacity available on a single drive.
12 years ago
WD My Book Essential - 1TB USB 3.0 External HDD
Does what it is supposed to do - nothing more, nothing less. I bought this HDD as it is on the certified external drive list for the Wii U and thus works great with the said console.
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.
15 years ago
WD MyBook
All-in-all it does what it's supposed to do, hasn't failed on me yet, and it's always a good idea to keep your important data backed up. Plus now it's way cheaper than it was a year ago. I give this product 4 eggs.
Pros:
- Configured as a RAID right out of the box
- Recognized on both Apple MAc and Windows OS platforms
- Have had it for over a year now and hasn't given me any problems to date
- Works great as a backup drive for my music, movies, photos
Cons:
- No eSATA or firewire 400/800 connections for faster data transfers
- The USB connection on the back is poorly made
- The UBS cable falls out a lot so I had to use a plastic cable zip tie to secure it to the back of the drive
- Also you cannot use any other drive other than WD Green Drives.
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
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
9 years ago
Great improvement over older version/model
Great - has a metal cradle which attaches it to the back of the TV out of the way Also has no addition power adaptor (like in the older model) as it gets its power from the TVs USB powered slot - therefore it has just the 1 cable to connect into the tv
7 years ago
Lasted seven and a half years
I bought this drive back in 2011 and it lasted until a couple of weeks ago. I have used it in various ways primarily for backups, using Windows backup for awhile to do image backups, and then moving to Crashplan local until they ended their free home license.
13 years ago
Slow
Wanted to use this for streaming video, music and pictures, which it does faultlesly, but geting the files onto the drive is soooo sloooow! Even over a 1gbit wired network. I have a 4 year old other make that is almost instant when you access your files.
Pros:
- Media streaming
- Capacous
- Software Easy To Setup
Cons:
- Slow
- May Need Help With Shares
- Clumsy Interface
15 years ago
Only buy it if you really need a dedicated 3TB drive, and only to use with a 64-bit OS.
The Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB external hard drive with USB 3.0 ("super-speed USB") support. I decided to pick one up because I recently also purchased a D-Link Boxee Box which I was hoping to use it with.
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