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Скроменый эксперт
21.03.2008
2/10
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Ужасно
I have had 2TBs worth of these 500gb drives die on me. i have lost sooooo much files its not even funny. I have one left and i am orderign drives from other brands and backing up everything like i am somekinds squirel or something. These drives have just over 1yr lifespan if your lucky. And theres no warnign sign. they just die...
Скроменый эксперт
05.03.2008
4/10
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It worked fine for about 6 months, but then without warning died on me. It says the drive is unformatted and asks if I would like to format it now? I knew I should have bought 2 of them and had one back up to the other. Some of the stuff I had on there I had been collecting for years and cannot be replaced. Don't put ANYTHING on this drive you can't afford to lose!
Скроменый эксперт
29.05.2007
8/10
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Хорошо
I also have the Western Digital My Book Premium Drive 500gb and when it was time to add more space I decided that I didn't need Firewire/400 and backup software. Even though they look like the same drive physically, the "Essential" drive looks cheaper. Probably because of the lack of Firewire port, the essential is slightly smaller in volume. The Premium edition had nice a nice hard feel and rubber footing around the edges of the top, back and bottom of the unit. However, with the essential, there's only 2 rubber footing on the bottom, thus it just feels cheaper than the premium.With that in mind, I think it's still a better value than the premium, since you're getting the same storage, you save 40-50 bucks by not having Firewire and backup software.Performance-wise, my 2 mybooks have been performing just dandy. I've only had the essential for a couple of weeks, the premium one I've had for I think about 8 months. I use it to backup all my video, music and photos and it's a solid performer. I transport them back and forth and only turn on the unit when I save data off my main powerhouse windows computer, then I use the drives to access my files off my Apple laptop at my loft.They do come with small power bricks, but overall I like the black design, it goes nice with my PC but doesn't look that great next to my powerbook.
Скроменый эксперт
12.12.2007
10/10
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Великолепно
I bought this product mainly to backup my files and free up some room on my aging laptop. You can find cheaper and more expensive models but I felt this one would do well.So far I had it for a few months and works well. I backed up my laptop a few times. I only backed up the files I use, not the whole computer, which filled about 8% of the drive. Since everything was working well I decided to move all my music and videos on there.My laptop is connected 24-7 and the drive is working probably 6 hours of the day. I have no complaints.The blue light does cool swirly patterns when writing/reading and when shutting off. Nothing real crazy but a cool detail.
Скроменый эксперт
07.11.2007
2/10
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The rubber gasket cording, whatever it is called, which surrounds the perimeter of this product totally came off. The case came apart. It still works, but obviously this is not good.I called western digital and they will not stand behind the product. they will not replace the drive.I bought it 2 months ago. I always buy LaCie drives and decided to try this - bad decision it appears. Furthermore the customer service representative could barely speak English leading me to think perhaps I was really talking to someone in another country?? Whenever I have had an issue with a LaCie product, whose call center is located in the US - they stand behind it 100%, no questions asked. I rate this one star, because they do not stand behind the product and have bad customer service.
Скроменый эксперт
30.12.2007
6/10
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Плохо
Here is my only complaint. The drive is indeed easily set up on most computers (plug it in and it's good) however the power cord and physical size make this fairly unwieldy. You will groan each time you have to yank the power cord and brick out of the wall to move it to a different computer or travel. For me, it wasn't worth it to put up with this when similar storage-size USB powered drives that are half the size and 1/3 the weight are available and require no power cord.If you plan to leave it on one desk and not move it much then it should be fine! It does work well and is speedy.
Скроменый эксперт
20.02.2008
4/10
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I had this drive for over a year. I had it just about full of important video files. I had it standing up instead of flat, and when the cat bumped it, it tipped over. That's right, it just tipped over. It didn't fall off the desk or smash on the ground, it just went from standing to sitting. Well, I guess that was enough, because after that, it stopped working. Goodbye files. Overall, I'd say look elsewhere.
Скроменый эксперт
13.02.2008
10/10
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Великолепно
This turned out to be wicked external hard drive. Its so idiot proof, you just plug it in... and yeah, thats all you have to do and POOF, it works. Really, REALLY easy to use. My only qualm is that the drive doesn't actually have 500GB of space, but actually ~465GB. Not very happy about that, but it's only ~35GB off of 500GB so its not very critical, I just wish it hadn't been advertised as 500GB, instead of it's actual capacity.
Скроменый эксперт
15.02.2008
10/10
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Великолепно
My friends and I bought these to store our digital and scanned photo collections. The "Book" is really "plug and play." There was none of the frustration sometimes found with new tech devices. If you can manage a USB stick you can manage My Book. If you can't have a computer for each person in the family, a solution is to get a 500 GB individual storage device for each person. For ease of use and capacity, it's a good buy.
Скроменый эксперт
22.12.2007
2/10
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I feel like the luckiest person today (knock on wood). I purchased this drive about 8 months ago and had filled it about 80-90% over that time. I had backed the data up to other sources, but not consistently. Last week, I was reading reviews of other people that had bought this drive and figured I was pushing my luck so I backed the entire drive onto a second drive, just in case. This week...? The entire thing crashed and everything is gone. Computer won't even recognize it anymore. These drives seem to have some serious problems with them. I definitely wouldn't use them as a primary storage drive.
Скроменый эксперт
15.11.2007
10/10
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Великолепно
Worked beautifully. NOTE: you can't install the card, and then connect the drive.I bought the seperate SIIG card, and SIIG cable. (This drive only comes with a USB 2.0 cable).You have to have everything installed and connected, then fire up your computer, and it needs to be connected to the internet. Vista downloads and installs the drivers automatically. It works awesome! If you don't have internet access on your box, you can get the driver files from the SIIG website.SOOOO FAST! Puts FW800 and other interfaces to shame.(speed only as fast as the slowest drive in your configuration, of course. Example: if you are copying a file from an internal 1.5Gb/s SATA drive to this drive, it is only as fast as the 1.5...)enjoy
Скроменый эксперт
26.03.2008
2/10
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Ужасно
Do NOT buy this drive. Western Digital My Book is unreliable. I've had two of these drives, and they both died after a few months of very light use. In both cases, the drive suddenly started making the infamous clicking sound of death, and all the data was lost.
Скроменый эксперт
21.02.2008
4/10
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Hopefully they will invent Flash drives that have large amounts of spacebecause Hard Disk are not trust worthy, as I have learned from my own expirience. So if you buy this, buy 2 of them. One as your main and one as your back up. They are just to fragile. Overall its not a bad product and will et you by for a while till the fash drives with 500GB make thier apperance!
Скроменый эксперт
20.03.2008
2/10
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I had the WD for about a month then all of a sudden my home and laptop computers no longer recognizes it as a drive. I have tried many tech supports and all say I am screwed and my data is lost. WD will replace it though...cool to bad I had 300gb of info on it right!
Скроменый эксперт
03.05.2008
10/10
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Великолепно
I've had this hard drive for 5 months now, everything is perfect, works like a charm! Super easy to setup as well :)
Скроменый эксперт
03.02.2008
2/10
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This drive is nothing but headaches. I just recieved it in the mail about 3 days ago. First of all they dont tell you, that you need to reformat it when you first get it. You have to basically already know how to do that. It takes a couple hours to format. Well once that was done it worked for about a day or 2 then my computer stopped seeing it. Time to get a refund i guess....by the way my maxtor external works fine.
Скроменый эксперт
12.11.2007
2/10
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Our family purchased 3 of these (1 x 250) and 2 of the 500's here. We use them to supplement storage realtime and also for backup. Wish I would have read the reviews here first!One of our 500 has just died. Most of the data is backed up (on another Western Digital unfortunately) but what a waste of time and money! We will not buy another Western Digital or Maxtor (similar experience) for a long time.Update: Our second 500 GB Western Digital died after just 2 weeks of "primary" use (it had been our backup). Ordered a Calvary unit and it wouldn't even turn on out of the box - customer service recommended returning it. We bought a Seagate FreeAgent. Quite and fast - so far so good....
Скроменый эксперт
26.02.2008
2/10
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Ужасно
I have had this for a little over a year and it failed. It started making clicking noises. When I googled this I found out I was not alone. LOTS of people have trouble with these drives - they are very unreliable. I recently bought another one and am now scared that I will lose the data on that drive. DONT buy a MY BOOK!!!!
Скроменый эксперт
10.01.2008
6/10
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Плохо
The power supply failed on this thing after I backed up tons of files to it. I found another power supply to try with it so I could find out if the actual drive still worked. It didn't. It's less than 2 months old.UPDATE 10/31/11***I wound up buying a brand new WD power supply on a whim, hoping it would work and I could retrieve my lost files. It DID work and has continued to work ever since. So I have upgraded the stars rating on this to 3, instead of the 1 star I gave it earlier.
Скроменый эксперт
24.02.2008
10/10
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Великолепно
If you use this with a Mac make sure you format it for one (unless you plan on using it with a PC). I bought this last May or June and have had no issues with it whatsoever. I use it primarily as a backup for my music and office files and for large movie files. I'm considering buying a bigger one so I can store more stuff.
Скроменый эксперт
19.04.2008
2/10
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Waste of monies + let alone the problem of losing data, I bought this hard drive and it failed in six months, wouldn't buy another WD.
Скроменый эксперт
12.01.2008
2/10
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Ужасно
Take it as a warning and don't buy this product. Worked the first time we plugged it in an transferred 30 gb worth of photos and videos of my baby and family. Thank god we decided to check them on the drive before deleting them from our laptop and guess what?? We could not access the drive after that. It kept on coming with an error message and couldn't be opened....so it was dead in just one day.Just wasn't worth for even a cent. It was a piece of trash!!
Скроменый эксперт
19.03.2007
8/10
Оценка пользователя
Хорошо
First the pros: The unit worked out of the gate and is very quiet. Reformatted to NTFS and that worked out fineSecond the cons: The drive comes with no discernable way to upgrade to another drive later. 1TB drives will be at this price point next year and I didn't want to especially buy another external appliance. Also the fact I have a power brick is not great. My other external drive has a direct plug into the wall, so this is another piece to bring along. It would be nice if there were some actual instructions as what the software was on the drive. What was there was .pdfs of the included installation instructions. I don't need an installation manual, I would like to know what the bundled software is (was). As many other have said, the case is made of a cheap plastic. I hope it holds up.UPDATE: ok, I have been using the drive for a little while now and I have to say that I am not as happy as I was earlier. The drive is relatively slow compared to my other two external drives (not WD). Access times are slow and navigating is slow. Worse, the drive seems to go unresponsive occasionally for several seconds at a time, causing my laptop to become unresponsive. My other two external units do not perform this slowly nor do they cause these performance issues. I'm not changing the rating, but if you could put up with a little extra noise, I would recommend getting a good Seagate or Samsung drive and sticking it into an external drive enclosure yourself.
Скроменый эксперт
25.03.2008
8/10
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Хорошо
I was surprised by the amount of information I can store on this product, and since its power mode is tied into the computer, you don't have to worry about it randomly turning on and off. Great product.
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