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Beware - My Book drives fail if left on 24/7
I'm an experienced computer technician with 20+ years of on the job experience. I am a firm supporter of Western Digital internal drives, and have always used them. When the My Book drives were released several years ago, I was enthusiastic that a low-cost external drive solution was available from my preferred hard drive vendor.
After years of using these drives in both a professional and personal capacity, and after having the last of my 5 personal My Book drives die today, I felt c...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/21/2009
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One of the better ones around...
Design & Portability
I had 2 external HD's, which were 250GB and 150GB. It was in two different enclosures, so where ever I went, it was a real hassle carrying two HD's. MyBook is pretty compact with 1TB platter inside, helps slimming the width. Its piano black enclosure is really slick in HD design. I would give this HD the best design in its category. Very simplistic, no buttons, small slit of blue LED in front.
Out of the box
Everything was packed, there were no mounting ...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com]
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02/22/2008
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100%
(22 of 22) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Fantastic working and fantastic looking!
I have had this hard drive for about a month now and have had no real problems with it. It is very quiet and has not had any hiccups. The only thing I have noticed may be a problem with Windows Vista. When the computer goes to sleep (hibernate and off works fine) the hard drive becomes unrecognizable when booting back up. However, all you have to do is unplug the USB port and then plug it back in and it works like a charm. Also, the drive will park itself after a while and when accessing it...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/06/2008
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100%
(17 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful
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V2.0 Replaces The Old Series
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
Pros: Price, storage space, looks reasonably stylish, XP found it and configured it easily and quickly.
Cons: Unknown longevity record (the original series had high failure rates), short warranty. Less common USB mini plug, no power switch
Other Thoughts: V2.0 replaces the original Essential series. No power switch, but the most recently produced v1 versions drop...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by Phillip Dampier can be read at Newegg.com]
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Phillip Dampier
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11/10/2007
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96%
(27 of 28) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Excellent Drive. Needs formatting!!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: Great Design. Simple and elegant; sturdy as an ox. This drive has been mistreated (Accidently, of course) several times. Dropped from 4ft several times and landed on the ground. Case was scratched, and joints were popped out, but a quick squeeze snapped everything back into place, and it continued working w/o fail. No connection problems or data corruption. Tons and tons of free space. Exce...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by Deevlo can be read at Newegg.com]
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Deevlo
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12/28/2008
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92%
(12 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Works for me
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Works with a Macs. Plugged it in and everything worked fine as expected.
Cons: A 1 Terabyte drive is really only 930 GB. But you should already accept that. :) The only odd thing was that unlike the other My Books I own, this one gave an error when I tried to change it's format from Fat to OS X's Journaled format. I had to "...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by Garthok can be read at Newegg.com]
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Garthok
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11/17/2007
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86%
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A-Holes who are too ignorant to write Reviews
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
Pros: I have purchased as many as 5 Western Digital My Book Essentials ranging from 250GB to 500GBs. I have never ever had a problem with any of them. Now I am ready for even more space and this 1TB is exactly what I need, LOTS of Space for a GREAT Price.
Cons: NONE
Other Thoughts: I believe when writing a review, it should be based on your own personal experience in usin...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by BrotherGary can be read at Newegg.com]
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BrotherGary
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09/30/2008
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78%
(11 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Know your reliability specs b/4 purchase
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: I bought this at Costco for $229 -- great price for 1T.
Cons: Understand drive failure parameters before buying (other thoughts). Got nervous because it ran hot even though I was just using it for Time Machine backup. Investigated drives a bit, and decided to go with the more expensive "server grade" Seagate 1T plus an IcyDock enclosure from NewEgg. Costco'...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by N/A can be read at Newegg.com]
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N/A
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07/10/2008
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73%
(11 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful
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works great
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: You can set it up to load as main drive and load up say vista off of it so that when you plug it in some one else's computer, it takes over as main drive and it will be like your on your computer, all your settings, info, data, files will all be there. plays movies, music, programs strait from it without problems, I used a file synchronizer and sent over 400gigs...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by GzN Pupa can be read at Newegg.com]
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GzN Pupa
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11/08/2007
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64%
(16 of 25) Users Found This Review Helpful
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FAT32 is for Compatibility
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: FAT32 is for compatibility. You really should leave it formatted as FAT32 unless you never intend to use the drive with anything other than a Windows PC. Setup as FAT32, you can use this as easily as you would a thumbdrive with other devices like an XBOX360 or PS3 AND it guarantees maximum compatibility over a network.
Cons: If you re-format as NTFS, forget about getting it to work with...
[Western Digital WDH1U10000 H1U10000N 1TB MyBook Essential External Hard Drive review by jg0001 can be read at Newegg.com]
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jg0001
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08/04/2008
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60%
(6 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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