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Western Digital My Book 250GB Essential USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
 
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Western Digital My Book 250GB Essential USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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Technical Details

  • Easy to set up, easy to use
  • The My Book drive turns itself on and off with your computer
  • The elegant case, iconic of a book, takes up less space on your desk, stacks horizontally
  • Inside the case is an exceptionally fast, ultra quiet, cool-running hard drive from Western Digital
  • Free Google software
  • Ideal for Simple add-on storage for your files, music, photos and movies
  • Adding virtually unlimited storage with multiple USB 2.0 external hard drives
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 5.7 x 17 cm ; 1.3 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.8 Kg
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  • Item model number: WDG1U2500E
  • ASIN: B000EXZAOY
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 11 April 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (168 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,265 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Western Digital My Book 250GB Essential USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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Manufacturer's Description
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.

Product Description
You can't measure memories in gigabytes. But you can use thosegigabytes to preserve the stuff that really matters - the photosmusic movies and documents that you never want to lose never wantto forget. My Book is full of life...your life. Small simpleeleg

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64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An essential for the travelling computer user., 4 Sep 2006
By T. Walters (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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When i decided to buy a laptop i sacrified space for specs, and whilst this was cheaper to begin with i soon found that my 40GB of space would not suffice.

I bought a Western Digital 80GB HD not long after and this served me well for a year or so, until i had filled it up with files.

Looking to expand my memory capacity by a substantial amount i stumbled upon this HD, made by the same company that provided me with such an excellent little portable drive beforehand.

For your money you get a nice little drive. It's not as big as it seems to be in photographs, in fact it's smaller when stood upright than my 80GB HD. The drive is designed to look like a book which is cute, and it has a nifty ring that surrounds the power button on the front that tells you when it's in use.

The drive can be used upright or on it's side and includes adhesive feet which can be added if you favour the second choice. The drive comes with a British and American AC adapter, and can be switched between the two with little hassle.

In addition to this i find that some of the reviews on this site are unfair on it's apparent noise issues. Mine runs very quietly and only makes a small amount of noise when i am transferring alot of files either from it or onto it.

Overall i would recommend this for anyone who wants an affordable solution to a small hard drive.
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84 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stylish Drive for your Digital Media, 29 May 2006
By N. Potter (UK) - See all my reviews
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My review refers tothe 400GB version of the WD My Book.

I needed a new external hard disk to backup all my DVDs to so I could have digital versions to play through my Media Centre PC in the living room. As such I needed something that was both stylish in design and quiet when running. The WD My Book is both.

Setup is a snap with nothing to install. Although the drive does come with Google Desktop/Toolbar and some Windows Backup software I chose not to install these. Once plugged in the drive appeared under My Computer and just worked.

It is an incredibly quiet drive but beyond this something you would quite happily display on a shelf in your living room. The matt black finish with the slightly rounded corners along with the simple circle of light on the front are obviously the result of some determined design thought from WD.

I will certainly be buying at least one more of these and would wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone else.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great value, easy to use product, 28 Nov 2006
By Mr. A. Howat "whodaman" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
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I'm a Mac user, which means I'm rather wary of buying non-Apple products that may only work properly with PCs. I've had this a month now and it worked straight out of the box. It's relatively quiet, responsive, and once I erased it and reformatted it to Mac OS X (journaled), it was super-quick when doing backups with Carbon Copy Cloner. Best of all it's super-cheap! I'll be hanging onto my receipt in case it's too good to last of course, but so far I'm delighted with this product.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Reliable, noisy backup solution
I've owned this product for about 2 years now and thought it about time to write a review. The reason for not writing a review sooner is that my key requirement for buying the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mark Charlton

4.0 out of 5 stars Good on the desktop as part of a bigger backup suite
I'm relatively happy with the 250Gb version of this drive. It's stylish, quiet and fast enough for everyday use. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Kenny_Consumer

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
I have had the WD MyBook for over a year now and despite it being a bit bulky (and sometimes noisy), it hasn't had any problems so far. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Kailash Nadh

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't like cold starting
I only use this occasionally, and over time, it has developed a tendency to resist cold start. I think there's an issue with the "button" on the front panel, it may be a bit... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Bandidoz

1.0 out of 5 stars Died and couldn't get a refund
I bought one of these for myself and one for my mother about 6 months ago. 10 days later, my mothers hard drive stopped working for no apparent reason... Read more
Published 18 months ago by smawbone

2.0 out of 5 stars Great, for a year or so! Now it is slowly dying...
I bought mine sometime around october, 2006, when it was around £65 here on amazon (why exactly is it now more than double the price, more than a year later???). Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. Ca Strain

5.0 out of 5 stars A proper workhorse
I've had my drive for well over a year now, bought it to support the 60 GB drive supplied with my laptop and I've been impressed, throughout the year I've hurled a fair amount of... Read more
Published 18 months ago by D. Johnson

1.0 out of 5 stars Not good enough
Like other reviewers here I have had my WD Book for just over a year. During that period it worked fine until just recently when the PC stopped recognising it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Simon C. Evans

1.0 out of 5 stars You've been warned
I have owned this product for only 10 months and now it has just stopped. Believe me it is a nightmare to contact WD, when you finally get through very little help available, they... Read more
Published 19 months ago by buyboy

3.0 out of 5 stars Works great then like others here, click of death
I had a similar experience to others on here, drive worked fine- I used it everyday but fairly light use - anyway came to power on yesterday and CLICK CLUNK and flashing green... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mark R

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