Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDG1U5000
- Store and back up your music, photos, videos and important documents with this external hard drive
- Easy to set up and use with built-in installation software
- Simple user interface features USB 2.0 connectivity
- Device holds up to 500 GB of data
- Measures 5.55 x 2.25 x 6.71 inches (WxHxD)
Product Description
Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you’ve got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies.Amazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description Is your computer loaded with photos, music, video, and all sorts of important files? If so, you should make extra room, back them up, and keep them safe on Western Digital’s WDG1U5000 My Book Essential Edition 500 GB Hard Drive. This reliable, easy-to-use external hard drive is the perfect storage solution for all your precious digital assets.
Save and back up all your digital assets with the My Book Essential Edition Hard Drive. View larger.
Simple, easy-to-use design.
Connects to your computer via USB 2.0 interface. View larger.
The elegant case takes up very little space. Installation is a breeze because you don’t really “install” anything — just plug it in and it’s… More >>
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDG1U5000
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5 comments
Abhishek Gupta on December 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Pros
1. insignificant humming noise
2. fast transfer speeds
Cons:
1. it says 500 GB on the cover, and the actual product has 460GB. There is a 40GB mismatch.
Super Topher on December 3, 2009 at 4:41 pm
It’s a hard drive. It holds things. Though not physical objects, i.e. don’t try to use it as a coaster or a coffee table.
Oh, and it looks like something out of Star Trek.
B. Shi on December 3, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Time of writing: Agu.2007
which one is worse, Vista or MyBook?
Plain and simple: do NOT use 1394 is you want Vista! Or do NOT use Vista if you want fancy hardware!
I’ll return it!!!
ozone on December 3, 2009 at 7:57 pm
The first thing that happened when I plugged the USB only version of My Book into my computer was a hard crash. Meaning that I had to shut down the computer and reboot. Every time I tried to boot the computer with the drive plugged in, the computer would crash. When I booted, then turned on the drive, sometimes it would come up and sometimes it wouldn’t. Once up, I had to format it to get the larger file sizes (You’d think with a drive this big, it would be understood that the user has large files). Not a problem, but why?
Transfering files was painfully slow. It took about 24 hours to transfer about 70GB. When I realized that I was going from one external drive to another, I made sure to go from an internal drive from that point on. However, it still took overnight to transfer about 30 GB. My USB port, might be 1.1, however, accounting for the slow speed, but the crashes were ridiculous and I was happy just to get the data back onto my internal drive.
I already owned 2 Maxtor One Touch drives, so I returned the My Book and paid the extra money for another Maxtor and as with the other two, I plugged it in and it worked immediately and flawlessly. Voila. I should have just done the (firewire) Maxtor in the first place, but I was trying to save a little money.
Luiz F. O. Campos on December 3, 2009 at 9:51 pm
For me that wanted an External disk to work with this OS it has been worthless. But if that’s not your case, you may buy it. Regarding other
aspects is a good hardware.