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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
 
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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive + Western Digital TV HD 1080P Media Player + Fisual Install Series GOLD Plated HDMI Cable 1.5m
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Technical Details

  • Easy to set up, 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
  • USB 2.0 interface - A simple connection that offers convenience and compatibility among multiple computers
  • Fits right in - Takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf
  • Smart and energy efficient - Turns itself on and off with your computer
  • PC and Mac compatible - Works with both Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
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  • Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 5.4 x 16.5 cm ; 1.2 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.8 Kg
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  • Item model number: WDH1U10000E
  • ASIN: B000W9RNOA
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 29 Sep 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (365 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,408 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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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

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244 of 248 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. Quiet, compact and reliable. Plus - a tip for Mac users., 10 Jul 2008
By JackJack (Glasgow, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive (Electronics)
This is the third My Book drive I have bought. I have been very pleased with all of them, and am still using the (smaller capacity) one that I bought 3 years ago!

Reasons to recommend this drive:
- Quiet
The external power supply and well-ventilated design means that this drive can stay cool without a fan.
- Reliable
I have never had a problem with any of the 3 My Books that I have bought over the past 3 years.
- Small
The drives take up very little space on a bookshelf, and the external power supply is tiny.
- Stylish
I'd much rather have this thing on my desk than a bulky horizontal case. If you're going to use a drive every day, might as well have it look good!

Essential tip for Mac users:

- THIS DRIVE IS PARTITIONED FOR WINDOWS. Please excuse the capitals, but this is important and it isn't in the manual. If you want to use this disk with a Mac, the first thing you should do is repartition it.

Go to Disk Utility, click on the My Book disk, and select the "partition" tab. Create at least one partition (don't just leave it at "current"). Then click "options" and select "GUID partition table" if you have an Intel Mac, or "Apple Partition table" if you have a PPC mac. Finally, click "Apply". Then reformat the drive in HSF Extended + Journaling format.

Why bother doing this? The default MS-DOS parititioning will work, but it will be slower and you are more likely to run into errors. I honestly believe that failure to repartition the drive is the main reason that people have reported problems with using this drive on a Mac.
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385 of 400 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An external hard drive that actually looks nice., 20 Sep 2008
Okay, there are a lot of reviews for this product already and a lot of misinformation so I thought I'd try to clear the air a bit and lay down the key points for external hard drives:

* You will not get 1TB of storage on this product. The industry measures 1TB as 1000 GB, but your computer measures it as 1024GB. The same goes for GB into MB. The true capacity of this drive when formatted will be in the region of 930GB.

* It comes with a multi-plug. Follow the instructions to clip off the USA plug and clip on the UK plug. No tools are required (except fingers) and most children of 5 could complete the task.

* The drive turns on and off with your computer and 'sleeps' when inactive to reduce power consumption and heat. In sleep mode it uses less power than your mouse, but if for whatever reason you want to turn it of simply right-click the drive icon and select 'safely remove'.

* Don't let the 'I lost all my files' reviews put you off. Some hard drives do fail. This is the same for all manufactures and cannot be avoided. Valuable data should always be backed up on two separate devices.

* If you are planning to store video on the drive it would be a good idea to format the drive to NTFS straight out of the box, don't worry about overwriting the files that come on the drive, you don't need them.

Compared to other drives on the market this one is nicer to look at, and thanks to it's sleep mode, quieter and cooler than most. Getting (nearly) a Gigabyte *EDIT 10Gb* per pound isn't too bad either!
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242 of 254 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great external Hard Disk, 28 Jan 2008
By John Nunn (Coventry, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive (Electronics)
A superb external HDD, the USB2 connection ensures a good transfer rate with high reliability. The Supplied MIO software is unfortunately absolutely appalling and only a trial version at that, do not install despite the recommendations in the instructions. The device is very much plug and play with no drivers needed. I have got a pair of these attached to my development PC and they are great for storing old project data, iso images, unused virtual hard disk files and pictures. I would not recommend using this to run applications or virtual machines from as the performance is not good enough, but it should help free some static storage from your internal HDD's.
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