Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180 in Consumer Electronics
• Model: WDH1U10000E
• Released on: 2007-10-07
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 2.13" w x 5.39" l, 2.54 pounds
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Manufacturer's Description
Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

Stay away from this one!!
I bought this just over a few days ago. Transferred over 500 gb of data (documents, videos, music files etc). A few days later, I wanted to add more data to it but when I turned it on it was not being recognised by the PC. Blue light was on, disc was spinning but not appearing on the desktop. tried it on a friends computer and his laptop but still no success.

I have owned the 500gb version for a year or more and it NEVER gave me any problems. You want 1TB? Buy two of the 500gb WD My Book 2 (not this style but the one with a green circle--it costs £135+ for a 500gb...I wonder why? !!!!) OR face the risk of files being lost...NOT WORTH THE RISK!!!

Useful piece of kit.
This has been a great buy for me, I have managed to get the kids to dump all their music, movies and 12 megapixel photographs on this to free up space on our PC.
I still have a small issue to resolve, my PC keeps trying to boot off of this before the main hard drive but if I get time to sort this out it will be perfect.
Steve

An external hard drive that actually looks nice.
Okay, there are a lot of reviews for this product already and a lot of misinformation so I thought I'd try to clear the air a bit and lay down the key points for external hard drives:

* You will not get 1TB of storage on this product. The industry measures 1TB as 1000 GB, but your computer measures it as 1024GB. The same goes for GB into MB. The true capacity of this drive when formatted will be in the region of 930GB.

* It comes with a multi-plug. Follow the instructions to clip off the USA plug and clip on the UK plug. No tools are required (except fingers) and most children of 5 could complete the task.

* The drive turns on and off with your computer and 'sleeps' when inactive to reduce power consumption and heat. In sleep mode it uses less power than your mouse, but if for whatever reason you want to turn it of simply right-click the drive icon and select 'safely remove'.

* Don't let the 'I lost all my files' reviews put you off. Some hard drives do fail. This is the same for all manufactures and cannot be avoided. Valuable data should always be backed up on two separate devices.

* If you are planning to store video on the drive it would be a good idea to format the drive to NTFS straight out of the box, don't worry about overwriting the files that come on the drive, you don't need them.

Compared to other drives on the market this one is nicer to look at, and thanks to it's sleep mode, quieter and cooler than most. Getting (nearly) a Gigabyte per pound isn't too bad either!