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1.Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive from: Western Digital November 25, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £59.94 Prices subject to change.
I got my 1tb My Book on Monday, it lasted a whole day and then started smelling of burnt electronics. Contacted Amazon, they were excellent and sent me a replacement Thursday, started it up, backed up some files. Got home backed up some more files from home pc then suddenly it died. It lasted 8 hours. Thankfully Amazon seem really good about replacing dodgy products but why stock them in the first place.

2.TrekStor DataStation maxi n.u a 3.5" External Hard Drive. 160GB SATA - USB 2 from: TrekStor August 13, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £29.99 Prices subject to change.
I bought this over a week ago and I am still waiting to hear any noise from it at all ! If it was not for the neon light I would not know it was working. And it works perfectly. So far I have downloaded over 50 CD's of music and synced them to Windows Media Player. Non stop music. Definitely recommended.

3.Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive from: Western Digital October 07, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £89.98 Prices subject to change.
I got my 1tb My Book on Monday, it lasted a whole day and then started smelling of burnt electronics. Contacted Amazon, they were excellent and sent me a replacement Thursday, started it up, backed up some files. Got home backed up some more files from home pc then suddenly it died. It lasted 8 hours. Thankfully Amazon seem really good about replacing dodgy products but why stock them in the first place.

4.Western Digital Elements 640GB USB 2.0 External DeskTop Hard Drive from: Western Digital June 30, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £55.99 Prices subject to change.
I have had this drive for about a week now and it seems to work really well. I paid £60 which seems good value but it's now a bit cheaper. It comes formatted as FAT32 so it's compatible with more systems, but I have reformatted it as EXT3 as I use Ubuntu (Linux) rather than Windows. (I could have used NTFS if I wanted to use it with both operating systems). I like the silicon plastic bits that protect each end of the disk and stop it sliding around on my glass top desk. It powers up and down automatically when I switch my laptop on and off which is handy. I have not tested how it copes with being accidentally switched off or unplugged while in use!

5.Freecom Classic 3.5" 1TB External Hard Drive - USB2, Black from: Freecom July 06, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £89.99 Prices subject to change.
Fast, reliable and cheap? Normally you get two out of three but with this drive it's a full score on all three. One terrabyte for 99 pounds? Seemed too good to be true given other drives for 500mb were around the GBP70 mark. I've had this for about 2 months now, waiting to see how reliable it was before sharing a review. It has been superb, no issues at all, and with no drivers needed, it could not be easier to use. I use it for storage of high def video and backups of my 160GB laptop. A conversion to ntfs from fat took about 5 minutes with no issues at all (needed if you have very large files (eg video). I haven't been able to verify that I get full 480mbps throughput when writing ... Read More:

6.Western Digital Elements 1TB USB 2.0 External Desktop Hard Drive from: Western Digital June 30, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £88.97 Prices subject to change.
It's difficult to find reliable hard drives, external or otherwise; having lost everything from two failed WD My Book 1 TB drives (despite being mirrored), plus one LAN drive with a WD 1 TB disk, a couple of Lacies and several Maxtor/Seagates (which, frankly, have been the worst of the lot) there were two ways of looking at where to go next. Either avoid WD at all costs or hang on to the premise that lightning cannot continue to strike in the same place . . . my network. So, needing a replacement back-up for my backed-up back-up, I decided to risk WD once more and went for this Elements USB drive. With no time to consider the ramifications of having to format and mess around, this drive went straight onto one of my Macs and is accepting everything quite happily ... Read More:

7.Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500GB External Hard Drive EU & UK 3,5" 7200RPM 8MB USB2.0 from: Seagate February 04, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		Used Price: £46.41
I've now owned this drive for almost a year - mainly for media storage and to occasionally back up my own documents. The drive is elegant and sits neatly on the end of a desk, and looks rather sleek. It is quiet at all times, even when being scanned or during transfers. Transfers themselves are quick and reliable. It is also easy to set up - I was up and running with it within minutes.

8.Western Digital My Book Home Edition 500GB - USB 2.0 / Firewire 400 & eSata Hard drive from: Western Digital November 25, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £64.99 Prices subject to change. Used Price:
I got the My Book to do a back up of my Mac. I plugged it in and it linked up fine and started doing a backup faultlessly. The next evening it was making a little more noise than normal and I realised it was no longer in communication with the Mac. I phoned the Western Digital help desk 3 times. They were helpful but they could have made their instructions a little easier to follow. On the third phone call they did admit there didn't seem to be anything they could do, particularly as the Mac remained out of contact with the My Book. So off the disc went back to Amazons suppliers with everything my Mac contained aboard. The next day I spent several hours changing passwords with all those companies on the web that I visited. Definitely not reliable.

9.Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 500GB External Hard Drive USB2.0/FW400 from: Maxtor November 29, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £73.79 Prices subject to change. Used Price:
I bought the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus from Argos about six weeks ago. It came with a robust British plug, unlike some of the units reviewed earlier. The setting up instructions are rather confusing... the natural inclination is to try using the supplied CD, but that is for recovering your PC when the PC's hard-disc has failed. The actual set-up program is on the Maxtor disc, and is "launch.exe" which would not be obvious to someone not PC literate. As suggested, I copied all the initial software, (instruction manuals etc), on the Maxtor onto my PC. I later realised that the manuals are repeated in 101 languages, so I later deleted all those except the English ones, so saving a lot of space on my PC hard drive. The software driving the Maxtor is very easy to use. I ... Read More:

10.Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1TB USB 2.0 Firewire & eSata External Hard Drive from: Western Digital October 07, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £115.95 Prices subject to change. Used Price:
I got the My Book to do a back up of my Mac. I plugged it in and it linked up fine and started doing a backup faultlessly. The next evening it was making a little more noise than normal and I realised it was no longer in communication with the Mac. I phoned the Western Digital help desk 3 times. They were helpful but they could have made their instructions a little easier to follow. On the third phone call they did admit there didn't seem to be anything they could do, particularly as the Mac remained out of contact with the My Book. So off the disc went back to Amazons suppliers with everything my Mac contained aboard. The next day I spent several hours changing passwords with all those companies on the web that I visited. Definitely not reliable.

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