Western Digital WDG1SU5000 My Book Premium ES Edition 500 GB USB/eSATA External Hard Drive
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Customer Review: Don't Buy A plug-in external
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this drive and it taught me a lesson. I planned to use it with my laptop but since the drive needs it's own power supply it's not very mobile. I should've gotten a USB powered drive instead. If you want more storage space for your home, just buy an internal and have your kid install it. Also, WD's SATA enclosures are terrible. They bend the SATA cable at 90 degrees which causes guaranteed failure. So if you have one of these and it no longer works, take the HDD out of the enclosure and put it in your PC. You should be able to get your data. (Doing that will probably void your warranty)Customer Review: Works Great, then Dies leaving you scrambling, shame on WD!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I've had this for a little over a year, notice only a one year warranty comes with it. PLEASE do not store anything you really don't want to lose on it. I had about 250 gigs stored from my photography company, luckily I run more than one machine. It died, oh, it comes on and the USB port shows something there, but the device is clicking like a tap dancer on speed. Try to use one of WD's data recovery preferred partners with price starting at $595.00. I will be moving up to a more reliable brand after I try to get all my stuff off of this dead one. THANKS WD!!!Customer Review: gets hot. terribly hot.
Summary: 3 Stars
i believe these external cases are some of the worse things you could put a hard drive in. i dismounted the drive from the enclosure and mounted it internally in the pc drivebays. upon checking the smart info there was a registered maximum temperature of 97 degrees celcius. luckily the drive registerd more than 2 years of power-on time with zero relocated sectors or other critical smart info. Good drive I suppose, bad enclosure.Customer Review: Works Just Fine
Summary: 4 Stars
Works as advertised. I haven't been able to get an eSATA cable to try that out yet tho. The only quirk I've had with it is that it will turn itself on automatically when I boot up my computer and with Windows Vista, it hangs before getting to the Windows loading screen. It did not do this on my XP machine. Not sure why it does that, but it's not that big of a deal, and I hope when I switch to eSATA, it will fix that as well.Customer Review: Check customer reviews for the 500 GB Essential version - same story here
Summary: 1 Stars
Same story like some other customers:
After less than 1 year of usage (used it to store TV movies) the drive started to make strange noises - no way to get XP recognizing the drive anymore (tried several computers).
Got a new drive from WD, however, this one is not working as well. I wrote to customer support three times and didn't get ANY response for about five weeks now.
What else should I say?