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Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive | 
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| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
Buy New: £53.50
New (31) Used (1) from £49.99
Rating:  155 reviews
Sales Rank: 88
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
MPN: WDH1U5000E
Model: WDH1U5000E
UPC: 718037120928
EAN: 0718037120928
ASIN: B000WP0NM8
Release Date: November 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW & BOXED
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| Customer Reviews: Read 150 more reviews...
 Disastrous! December 1, 2008
Whack (UK)
Bought 6 of these - 4 failed within less than a year. There are far better drives available. Would like to give WD drives a zero rating but amazon doesn't allow it. I'll never buy a Western Digital drive again.
RUBBISH1 November 30, 2008
M. Titmus (London UK)
This item is TOTAL RUBBISH, when I removed it from the packaging and changed the plug over from US to UK, it simply wouldn't work, no lights, no set up software....NOTHING... back it goes, what a waste of time! A lot of reviews about this product are very poor, SAVE YOUR MONEY, Do YOUR RESEARCH and buy something else!
Seriously don't buy this drive! November 26, 2008
J. Clarke (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Before buying this drive, I read all the reviews, even the negative ones and thought it won't happen to me as long as I buy from Currys. I was initialld disapointed to ifnd a crack in the case, just below the light, but ignored it. I had the drive 4 weeks, saved loads of work on it and was generally happy. I had noticed it spark a few times when I plugged it into the USB but didn't think anything of it. Recently, I plugged it in, it sparked and went bang. The hard drive is no more. Rang western digital and they offered to replace the drive with a refurbished drive. Its only 4 weeks old and only used half a dozen times!!!!!!!!!!. I might as well have bought a second hand one and saved some money.
You might be like me and be sat there reading this thinking it won't happen to me. I can assure you, it will !!. This drive will let you down.
 Pretty Vacant November 25, 2008
L. Connolly (Glasgow)
Okay, so lets start with the positives - it's small (hardback book sized), it's extremely pretty, fast data transfer, mac & PC compatible, its storage capacity is sizeable for the price and it is very quiet...
In fact that is just the problem, on the 3rd day of use mine is just a little too quiet. You see, after 3 boots my mybook unfortunately no longer wishes to power up which is a tad annoying given i've just transferred a whole load of data to it.
I do appreciate that "these things happen" and can happen to any manufacturer however i was surprised that it failed so quickly. Using it as a backup drive for all my precious photos, I would honestly think twice before ordering another one, or do as the previous reviewer suggested and backing up in 2 locations - my problem being I don't want to worry that my backup is not safe.
Very sad to write a bad review but I wasn't impressed with the short life of this unit.
lasted 12 hours.... November 14, 2008
A. K. Monro (London, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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