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Electronics : Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

from: Western Digital


Binding: Electronics Brand: Western Digital EAN: 0718037120928 Label: Western Digital Manufacturer: Western Digital Model: WDH1U5000E Publisher: Western Digital Release Date: November 25, 2007 Sales Rank: 11 Studio: Western Digital	Average Rating: Amazon.co.uk's Price: £58.99 Prices subject to change.
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Manufacturer's Description:
Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf

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External hard drive

USB cable

AC adapter

Quick Install Guide

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Fantastic external HDD

I was quite astounded by this product, so much storage and so cheap. It even looks good! It worked first time on both my Macbook and my PC.

Don't even try the included software; this disk is plug and play with any modern computer.

Highly recommended. You can be confident buying this.

At the risk of being a boring old fart, I will tell you that 30 years ago I bought a hard disk - 8MB, yes MB not GB. It was the size of a washing machine and cost 10,000 ... Read More

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- Major, major risk
WD keep updating the outside of the box, but don't seem to have done anything about the fundamental problem which a lot of reviewers (including myself) have experienced: namely, after about 18 months you will get an I/O error, followed by clicks, followed by the disk being totally inaccessible. WD will provide a replacement, but all your data will be lost. This was a great storage solution until the day it died. As a permanent solution, experience has shown it to be unreliable.

Rating:

- Rock Solid
I just keep buying these!

Rock solid performance, easy set up. I now have 4 or 5 of these to store photos, videos and for backups of my laptop's hard drive.

No doubt I'll be buying a few more as and when my storage requirements dictate.

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- BEWARE the Click of Death!
Had this 6 months and it died suddenly - whenever I tried to connect it or power it up I got 3 slow clicking noises followed by 3 more then nothing....drive no longer found.

Whilst I had some DVD backups burned I was keen to try and get my most recent data off it. The recovery & replacement are expensive. WD support is automated and useless.

Luckily I found a method of getting the drive out of the case on Ransackery.com and while doing so noted that a large number ... Read More

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- Absolutely brilliant!
My oldish PC (which runs XP) was really struggling as it was full to the gills with stuff, and I bought this to free up the hard drive. I have a load of photos and music on the PC now, although it was originally used just for Word and Excel documents.

Despite the reviews on here, I really doubted that the PC would be able to cope with an external hard drive.

But as soon as I connected it, it immediately recognised it, and I've had no trouble at all moving files over via ... Read More

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