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Western Digital My Book Home Edition 500GB - USB 2.0 / Firewire 400 & eSata Hard drive | 
 enlarge | Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
Buy New: £64.90
New (25) from £64.90
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 882
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of the product.
MPN: WDH1CS5000E
Model: WDH1CS5000E
UPC: 718037121246
EAN: 0718037121246
ASIN: B000WP5VGG
Release Date: November 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The My Book II Home Edition has a triple interface for storing all your important data, and its unique paperback format makes it easier than ever to transport.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Mac/Firewire problem November 19, 2008
Benjamin Oglesby (UK)
As other's have mentioned, the drive's Firewire 400 connection doesn't function. (I am using an aluminium iMac)
There's nothing wrong with my firewire port - works fine with other devices. The drive passes power through when daisy chaining, but nothing else. It just gets stuck in a continuous power on/power off loop. Why pay for the FW if it's not even gonna work?
 Blew up within 2 days November 11, 2008
R. Griffiths (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
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.
 Good external hard drive, but firewire is slow November 9, 2008
Michael Lavocah (Norwich, England)
I wanted a large external hard drive for music backup / processing with a laptop that was top spec in 2006 and has a firewire port (Asus W3V). I got this version because I thought Firewire 400 would be faster than USB. I was wrong! A test transfer of 1.53 GB took 140 seconds with USB 2.0 and 180 seconds with Firewire.
Even so, I have decided to keep this, rather than send it back for a cheaper USB only model, mainly because the collapse in the exchange rate means that I got the drive for what is now a good price. Also I might want eSata in the future e.g. if I buy another desktop.
More generally: as others have said the drive is whisper quiet. I have not used the back-up software, which seems to be the reason some have given negative reviews.
It completeley failed after a few months of use November 8, 2008
Mr. Achilleas Rigas (UK, Cranfield)
Well I thought that WD was a reliable brand in hard drives and external hard drives. I was mistaken. My first external hard drive was on WD 500GB MyBook, it died after 8 months of use. I managed to save most of my data into another WD external hard drive that I bought, this time 1TB. This one died just 3 months after the purchase...
The worse is that I own a third one WD 1 TB external drive...It has not failed me yet, but after reading all those reviews in the net I do not believe that it will last much longer. Also one friend of mine that has bought one WD 500Gb had the same problem after a few months of use.
I am sending my drives to WD for replacement, but I am not optimistic at all that they will not fail me again..
Stay away from those Drives!!
good drive but wd support aint much October 17, 2008
M. Bates
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The drive looks good and performs good with esata BUT if you like me had trouble useing the esata on vista 64 dont bother phoning the wd support as i was told that the drive has not been tested with vista 64, at this stage i thought that the drive will be getting sent back, but i did a search and found out that i had to download a newer jmicron jmb36x chip set driver, (my motherboard is an asus p5ke with a quad core). western digital know nothing about this driver so i tried it and AT LAST it works. The transfer rates are great with esata compaired to usb and firewire and for this in my opinion makes the initial hasstle worth it. no esata cable which the wd support team thought came with it so only 4 stars from me and 1 star for the support.
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