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

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Electronics
EAN: 0718037122724
Hard Disk Size: 1000 GB
Model: WDH1U10000E
Release Date: October 07, 2007
Sales Rank: 180

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Useful piece of kit.
This has been a great buy for me, I have managed to get the kids to dump all their music, movies and 12 megapixel photographs on this to free up space on our PC.
I still have a small issue to resolve, my PC keeps trying to boot off of this before the main hard drive but if I get time to sort this out it will be perfect.
Steve

Rating:

- An external hard drive that actually looks nice.
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 ... Read More:

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- Great piece of hardware.
I have now got four of these drives. That should be all that needs said. I bought my first one of these terabyte drives over a year ago and have never had the slightest problem with it. The drive works great as soon as it's plugged in. I use these drives to store music, videos, photographs and software and have never had a problem or lost any data. The lack of a cooling fan is very good as it lets the drive run almost completely silent. The drive spins down after a few minutes of idleness but takes only a few seconds to get back up to speed. Only has about 930GB of space but it's normal to not get the full capacity that's advertised.
A few pointers to get started with it though -
- Reformat the drive before using it (to NTFS if you ... Read More:

Rating:

- So Far, So Good
Been going a fair few months now with no problems (touch wood). It stores most of our DVDs and gets used daily. Cool, and more importantly, quiet and the fact that it sleeps and wakes with your computer is excellent.

Will certainly look at Western Digital again when it's time to upgrade.

Rating:

- Stay away!
I used the drive to rip my dvd collection to, as I did not have the space for them. So I used this drive which worked perfectly for the last 3 months, woke up today the drive was dead, will not take any power. I have lost 900 Gb's of video. I am gutted! Stay away from these drives!

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