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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. There is no CD to install
  • The included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in
  • Automatic backup - Back up important projects to multiple destinations including files servers, portable drives and My Book. Synchronize project files to keep them current and secure. Set it and forget it
  • Every time you save a change it's automatically backed up
  • Powerful quad interface USB 2.0 - For convenience and compatibility among multiple computers
  • FireWire 400 and 800 – High-performance interfaces that are perfect for Macintosh® computers
  • eSATA 3 Gb/s - The ultra-fast eSATA interface gives you speed comparable to a state-of-the-art internal hard drive
  • Formatted for Macintosh - Set up with HFS+ Journaled formatting for complete Macintosh compatibility. Software included requires Mac® OS X 10.4.8 or later. Can easily be reformatted for Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • 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
  • Capacity gauge - See at a glance how much space is available on your drive. (Works with the USB and FireWire connection only)
  • Environmentally friendly - Our environmentally-friendly drive is designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. When you’re ready to use it, My Book wakes up automatically
  • SmartPower™ features - This drive turns itself on and off with your computer and Safe Shutdown™ prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written. (Works with the USB and FireWire connections only)
  • Designed to keep the drive inside cool - The My Book enclosure’s heat dissipating design with Morse Code prevents heat buildup… a notorious data killer. How cool is that?
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 5.4 x 16.6 cm ; 1.2 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.8 Kg
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  • Item model number: WDH1Q5000E
  • ASIN: B000W9KI42
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 29 Sep 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,645 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Speed is what you need when video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and that’s what this drive delivers with FireWire 800 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them

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  • USB cable
  • FireWire 800 cable
  • FireWire 800 to 400 cable
  • AC adapter
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    116 of 117 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Quiet and easy to use., 12 Mar 2008
    By Kevin Leah (Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
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    Buying this disk was an extremely hard decision. Based on the reviews on Amazon of the various models of MyBooks it was either going to be noisy and unreliable or quiet and easy to use. I'd been bitten before with an Iomega drive that sounded like a vacuum cleaner and reset itself if you put it under any real strain.

    My requirements, in order, were:
    1, It must be very quiet as it is for home use.
    2. It needed to be large - at least 750MB
    3. It had to store my data reliably and easily
    4. Firewire was desirable

    So what are my impressions so far?
    It's connected to a MacMini G4 running OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard) via Firewire 400.

    Well to start it is incredibly quiet - I have to put my ear up against it before I can hear it.

    It's 1TB and that's "Marketing" TB not real TB (Base 10 rather than the Base 2 that computers use). This translates to 932GBs of usable space. No surprise here, hard disks have always been sold in this misleading way, and it is way time the practice was stopped. The difference between marketing and real was trivial when disks were only a couple of MBs, but now we are up at the high GB and TB level it is a bad joke.

    Connecting it to Firewire, I experienced the same problem reported by others - You have to power the drive on before you connect the cable or your Mac might not recognise it. Once recognised, it is immediately available to you. It comes with some Mac OS X 10.4+ software to allow the capacity gauge to work and also some trial backup software. This is NOT on a CD, it is stored on the disk. I made the mistake of partitioning the disk before I realised this and therefore lost it. Once you register you can download the software again (which includes the Windows versions).

    In the box are a Firewire 400 to 800 cable, Firewire 800 to 800 cable and a USB lead, each a metre in length. The power supply is a fairly small brick, with a generous length of cable coming from each end.

    I downloaded and installed a firmware upgrade, which is supposed to improve functionality under OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - I've no idea what difference this may have made. There is also a downloadable replacement for the bundled ButtonManager , called WDDriveManager.

    As to reliability - only time will tell - I've only had the drive one day. In that time I have backed up the MacMini and a Macbook (over the network) using TimeMachine. I've also copied all the data off of the noisy Iomega drive. Throughout that process the drive has remained quiet, the case has remained quite cool and there are no vibrations.

    Overall.
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    It's quiet, easy to install and has a good range of connections. It has met all my requirements and exceeded my expectations

    My only dislike is the array of white LEDs on the front - they scan back any forth anytime the drive is active and are most distracting - there is no way I can see of disabling them. A single LED would have been completely adequate.


    ** Update 14 June 2008 **
    It's been three months and the drive is still excellent - it has two Macs backing up to it using Time Machine with no problem.
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    52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Performance Data, 10 Jan 2008
    By Max (UK) - See all my reviews
    Similar connectivity findings to both previous posts but to help with limited performance data posted anywhere (especially FW800) here are the results of initial tests using a MacBook Pro with Internal 200GB 7200 HDD by copying a 2GB MPEG:

    USB 2.0 - 22 MB/s
    FW400 - 31 MB/s
    FW800 - 50 MB/s
    eSata - not tested
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    41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, quiet and support were really helpful, 10 Jan 2008
    By W. Nicol "Bill" (UK Scotland) - See all my reviews
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    Bought this for new intel based iMac 24" as an external drive, to store pictures and video files. When first plugged in the iMac did not recognize the myBook. Called the help desk (Europe) and they were very honest saying that there are issue with Leopard OSX 10.5.1. So the button manager does not work. (It will not work with Firewire 800 anyway, as advertised in booklet). Anyway, set it up and if you follow the procedure properly, the iMac eventually recognized it through Firewire 800 and it is indeed REALLY fast. In fact, it seems faster in transfer between iMac and myBook than between folders on the internal HDD! GREAT.....also like the 3 year limited warranty. Finally, looks gorgeous in brushed aluminum. One slight issue at the moment. When I shut down the iMac, the front light pulses every 20-30 seconds as on standby. This issue will be resolved when the firmware updates and Leopard updates in due course (I am told by Euro-help).
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