Western Digital My Book Essential 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1U10000N
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Customer Review: Low Tech Issues Cannot Be Ignored
Summary: 2 Stars
The operation of this drive is pretty nice -- quiet, not too hot, plenty adequate speed, a relatively small footprint on my desk. But the plugs for the power and the USB are very insecure. I have seen the power cord slip out just because I bumped up against my desk. I was lucky I didn't lose a bunch of data. I thought "technological" problems like this had all been solved by about 1978 or so. It's a good drive only if you intend to make sure that it is always handled with kid gloves.Customer Review: Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 640 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Summary: 4 Stars
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The above item works great, and the price was better than any other I found.
Customer Review: Consumer Report
Summary: 4 Stars
Amazon is better than consumer reports. I purchased this drive from BestBuy before I read the amazon reviews. I am a geek and wanted a drive to backup family member computers after virus cleanup. This device will do the job but I had to figure out how. I first loaded the smartware backup software and gave it a password for 128 bit encryption. Then I backed up my 200gb hard drive. After 30 hours I canceled the backup. The slow speed was because of the encryption. The backup software doesn't backup the Operating system so it wasn't as good as my other backup software (including microsoft's). Also, the smartware continiously backup changed files which left my hefty machine crawling. I found you could only use their backup software if encryption was turned on. I searched "remove" and found an option to remove the backup data (to free the disk). I turned the encryption off and formated the hard drive to NTFS. Then I uninstalled Smartware. Now I can use the drive as I intended. I have 3 complaints, 1. unpluging the drive gives you a blue screen of death so you have to dismount it first. 2. There is no power switch. 3. It leaves a CD partition for installing the smartware software. I gave it the 4 rating even with these problems because the price was right.Customer Review: Stops working after one week
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this product and the initial installation went really smoothly it worked as expected. I made a full back up. I had no idea it was my first and last backup. After one week I diecovered that the computer did not recognize the device. I tried to fix it according to the instructions on the support page. Then I tried my laptop and it did not recognize the device as well. The instruction says that in this case it is probably broken and should be returned. Some people seem to have good experiences, but this product really seems to have high rate of defects, which I noticed, but I told my self well I'll just give it a try. Well, I should not. I really reccommend that you look elswhere.Customer Review: a must have
Summary: 5 Stars
beautiful sleek black.
i have it as a DVR add on.. it sits and fits in perfectly with all the other entertainment stuff in our living room.