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Western Digital My Book Home Edition 500GB - USB 2.0 / Firewire 400 & eSata Hard drive

Off The Bookshelf's Price: £77.43
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Electronics
EAN: 0718037121246
Hard Disk Size: 500 GB
Model: WDH1CS5000E
Release Date: November 25, 2007
Sales Rank: 3173

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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Does the eSata connectivity actually work
I bought this product over others purely for the eSata connectivity and the greater transfer speeds this enabled. Everything works fine except for the eSata connection. I have tried the using the existing socket on the back the desktop, purchased a eSata II PCIe card, all to no avail. Now after visiting various websites it seems that many others are having the same problems. I wish i'd done more research first and gone straight for a network drive


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Simple to use, Brilliant Product!
Like another review said, If your a bit of a computer geek, or you know what your doing. Don't bother looking at the software pre-loaded. Just format the device to NTFS.

Speeds are good on both USB + Firewire, Can't speak for eSata because there was no cable!

I've Partitioned the hard drive into 4 seperate parts and it works lovely!

The only thing which confuses me is how to turn the drive off, I know theres a button on the back - But you push it, the lights do something but it remains on.

So what you do is, 'Safely remove the device' from your computer. Then Hit the power button. Then its switched off :)

One handy product is the little WD icon tray program that allows you see ... Read More:


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - software needs further purchase
If you are tech savvy then you probably wont need the bundled software and wont install it but if you do you are in for further expense. A lot of people have written to their website FAQ complaining that the product advertising does not mention further expense required and are unhappy about doing so.. I certainly am


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - First Impressions
Very please with My Book as an external hard drive but not so please with supplied software. Paid significantly more for this product over the price of equivalent "Essential" EHD so as to get the automatic back-up software. Once downloaded this software did required back-up and as promised continued to keep tabs on what was happening so backing up as it went along. However system was so so slow. After matter of days had to remove and back-up by drag and drop. By slow I mean very very slow. So slow that it could not log on to internet. Once removed all back to normal broadband speeds. So my recommendation - If you want back-up buy the cheaper "Essential" product.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Very Good HDD overall
So far only using the external HDD as a backup drive, and so far so good, managed to copy under 200 GB in a few hours using USB 2.0, not tried the firewire nor the esata connections yet. It's also not too big nor too heavy (slightly bigger than a thick book that I'm reading at the moment) which is good.

My only gripes so far are the fact that I'll have to buy my own esata cable, which over here isn't in great supply yet, and the trial software bundled in with the HDD. Fortunately I have no actual need for the software as I can use the existing windows interfaces to do what I need. I would have liked to pay more if I could have got an esata cable bundled in with the HDD (the reason for the 4 stars) but now I'll have to try and find ... Read More:

 



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