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500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Your baby's first step, your wedding in Bali, all your important milestonesall captured in digital photos and video. What could be more important? Store them safely and keep them backed up on the 500GB My Book Home Edition external hard drive. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive- you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in. Save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your e-mail and contacts to your iPod, and back up all your precious files to your My Book. Set it and forget it; every time you save something it's automatically backed up. The My Book takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. The drive turns itself on and off with your computer and Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written (works with the USB and FireWire connection only.) The My Book enclosure’s heat dissipating design with Morse Code prevents heat buildup a notorious data killer. The My Book is environmentally-friendly, designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. When you’re ready to use it, it wakes up automatically.
Average Customer Rating:
3.5 out of 5
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5 of 8 (63%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.
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Customer Reviews for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
45
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
Great price & good performance
Date: May 20, 2009
Written By:
VideomanFrom: Arkansas
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Average
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet, reliable, Highly Compatible Cons: no on/off switch
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive This hard drive was extremely simple to connect and use. I've had it now for a couple of months and it has worked fine. The only thing I would change about this hard drive is to add an on/off switch. The only way to turn the power off is to unplug it. I just leave it on all of the time.
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Review 2 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Top 250 Contributor
Mac Enthusiast
Overall Rating:
45
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
45
It turns itself on/off.
Date: May 12, 2009
Written By:
GordonAtMarketSoftFrom: San Jose, CA
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive Time Machine wanted to use it right off. I gave in and abandoned my purchased backup SW. I partitioned the drive. I gave the largest partition to Time Machine and kept the other partition for assorted files. It is very fast, even with USB 2.0. It turns itself on when plugged into the appropriate port. And, turns itself off, when 'ejected'. The flickering lights can be confusing.
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Review 3 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
Good product
Date: April 11, 2009
Written By:
boywonderFrom: AR
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Average
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet, reliable, Highly Compatible
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive This product was easy to set up and has worked very well for the 2 months that I have had it.
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Review 4 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
25
Performance:
35
Ease of Use:
45
Not so compatible with Mac OS
Date: April 7, 2009
Written By:
BensonFrom: Napa, CA
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Good
Pros: fast, high capacity, quiet Cons: not bootable on mac via firewire
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive I bought the WD Home Edition drive specifically as a boot disk for my Mac Mini. The specs read "Compatible with Mac OS 10.4 or higher". I took this to mean compatible with Mac OS 10.4 or higher. Right? Wrong! OS X wouldn't even allow me to install a system on it, much less boot from it. Now, what good is a backup drive if you can't boot with it in an emergency? Nowhere in the manual, on the box or on the support website does it say it cannot be used as a boot disk via firewire.
I finally got the straight answer from WD support via telephone. It was not designed to boot on a Mac. Shame on you WD for not disclosing this.
I highly commend PC Connection/Mac Connection for giving me full refund and free return shipping. I purchased from them 2 LaCie d2 Quadras even before I shipped the WD drive back. Good prices and prompt service.
I love the LaCie drives. If you own a Mac, do yourself a favor and grab a couple.
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Review 5 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Top 250 Contributor
Overall Rating:
35
Performance:
45
Ease of Use:
35
External HD
Date: April 7, 2009
Written By:
JohnGFrom: Louisville KY
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Average
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, high capacity, quiet, Highly Compatible Cons: difficult to use
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive Solidly built unit. Easy to hookup. I was somewhat disappointed with the installation and use of the software for automatic backup. The indicator light really doesn't do much other than tell you it is on or off. Needs a cradle of some sort so you can stand it up without blocking the air vent holes.
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Review 6 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Top 1000 Contributor
Overall Rating:
45
Performance:
45
Ease of Use:
45
Works great for me
Date: March 5, 2009
Written By:
JennFFrom: Glendale, CA
Owned this Product for:
3-12 Months
Level of Expertise:
Average
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive I bought this hard drive mainly to back up all of my pictures on my home PC. So far, I have not had any problems and it's working great. It was very easy to install. I have no complaints!
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Review 7 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Top 100 Contributor
Overall Rating:
35
Performance:
45
Ease of Use:
35
Could be better
Date: January 29, 2009
Written By:
LooperFrom: Riverside, CA
Pros: clean design Cons: lack of back up program
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive I was hoping that this unit, being a well known brand, would have a solid back up program that wasn't just some trial piece.
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Review 8 for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
35
Performance:
35
Ease of Use:
35
Not bad, could be better
Date: January 5, 2009
Written By:
rbneilFrom: Groton, MA
Pros: good price Cons: not bootable on powerpc, useless software
Reviews & Ratings for 500GB My Book Home Edition USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA External Hard Drive I bought this drive as a backup device for my iMac G5. It works, is acceptably fast, and the price is reasonable. However, it is not bootable on a PowerPC-based Mac, and you have to dig into WD's support site to find this out. The included Mac software doesn't do anything useful. And I find the "dancing lights" on the front panel to be annoying.
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