Western Digital WDH1CS20000N My Book Home Edition 2TB USB/Firewire/eSATA External Hard Drive
Sep 16, 2009 in
Computers & Software
- Continuous and automatic backup of your important digital assets.
- Extra storage for your computer.
- An archive of the music stored on your MP3 player.
- Plenty of space for digital photo and video capture and editing.
My Book Home Edition is easy to set up and easy to use. 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. Automatic backup allows you to save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your email 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…. More >>
Western Digital WDH1CS20000N My Book Home Edition 2TB USB/Firewire/eSATA External Hard Drive
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5 comments
Jerry on September 16, 2009 at 8:32 pm
They work whenever they want to. I have now done 4 warranty exchanges in 1 month. SPEND YOUR MONEY ON ANOTHER BRAND!!
D. Comiskey on September 16, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I can’t express enough how awful these drives are. We bought a batch of 12 of them a few months ago, and half of them have now failed. We got these after having repeated issues with LaCie drives, which use mirrored/striped smaller drives. They seem to last almost a year before dying.
This is a single 2TB drive. They began failing out of the box, while a few waited a couple of months before unexpectedly dying. We have used these in conjunction with Macs and PCs; USB and Firewire. We constantly have media failures, directory corruption, etc. This is in a corporate setting, where we were rel;ying on these for temporary backups and archiving. They have been useless.
T. Patrick on September 17, 2009 at 12:24 am
This drive has been performing very well. Don’t know what the review that complained about heat was about, because this thing runs cool (barely warm after several hours of backing up data) and is nearly silent. Truly Plug-n-Play. Auto-detected and installed on Windows XP, 2000 and Linux with no problems. It even worked on my PS3 before I reformatted (it’s FAT32 out of the box, which limits file size, so I formatted it NTFS).
Firewire and USB 2.0 performance is on par with other fast externals I have used before. Haven’t tried eSATA yet.
Not the best $$/GB value, but if you need big this is the drive to get!
Mark Brickman on September 17, 2009 at 2:41 am
I’ve used WD drives for years with good results. I also had a 500GB WD My Book which recently died so I decided to get another one with more storage. It died in 2 days. I returned the dead drive but won’t buy another one because they seem to run very hot which is a concern. I’m now looking for a new back-up replacement and definitely won’t buy another one of these drives. I was very disappointed.
Kelly D. Painter on September 17, 2009 at 4:07 am
I have 3 of these and ordering a 4th. 8TB!!! I am using them to replace my older My Book 1TB and 2TB drives (much larger physically). They daisy chain well using firewire. The older ones had some problems in that respect. In fact, that is the primary reason I am replacing the older WD drives – I am having trouble with those daisy chaining now.
I haven’t had these drives very long so I can’t attest to their longevity but I have had pretty good luck with the older WD My Books. These drive run very cool. Heat kills HDDs so I think these will fare well.
The only minor complaint I have: I don’t like the wall wart. I prefer the power brick the older units used.