Western Digital My Book Essential BACW0030HBK 3TB
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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.
15 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.
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 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
Western Digital My Book 500GB
Why is this external hard drive different from all other external hard drives?
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
"An Essential Hard Drive for everyone!"
Overview Western Digital are famous for Hard Drives and this is one of their drives in their Essential's range. On the face of it, you get a whopping 2Tb of space (more than you could ever use?) that is packed into a stylish modern casing. But what are you really getting?
Pros:
- Stylish Design
- Large Capacity
- Plug & Play
Cons:
- Slightly overpriced
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
Pretty quiet. Good size drive. USB 3.0 Bad Points: About 350mb of bloatware on the disk, before you even start Shell shows every finger print. Easily breakable/scratchable case as cheap plastic Off button could have been more easier to locate and use, Stable when stood, but ever so easy to knock...
Pros:
- Good looking and sleek
14 years ago
it stores your stuff.
Cause it was cheap, i like that it was cheap i dislike that its so big and requires a power output this is obviously an outdated hard drive and isn't advanced as 2011 + range.
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