Product Description

Save space on your PC's hard drive and store your photos, music, videos and other important files on the My Book II Essential Edition external hard drive. You won't believe how easy it is to configure and use! 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDH1U5000E
• Released on: 2007-11-25
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 2.13" w x 5.39" l, 2.54 pounds

Features

• Hard drive - external
• 5.4 cm x 13.7 cm x 16.6 cm
• 1.15 kg
• Middle East, Africa, Europe
• 500 GB

Manufacturer's Description
Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf

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Customer Reviews

Bad book
My Book has certainly been a disappointment for me. Initially I was impressed but after a couple of months, it produces problems. Now I have lost all data as it keeps coming up with 'I/O Device error'. Tried to reformat but it doesn't allow me to. Also tried the Western Digital website for download but that doesn't help at all. It also does not come with a CD application which means once any software faults arise, that would be the end.

Tried & Tested...
Well I thought I'd wait for a while until I review this Ext HDD.
It came pretty quick, the interchangeable plug isn't a problem. I think it's quite clever myself!
Setting up is a piece of cake, just plug & play. It looks stylish (which doesn't really bother me) but like what most people say, it doesn't have an on/off switch. But you can switch it off from your desktop by safely removing the USB drive. This will switch it off.
Compared to my ICE BOX 500Gb drive, it is slower in read/write speeds. I found this strange as they are both 7200RPM drives, but it definitely works slower. The ICE BOX is like lightning, and it has an on/off switch!

All round it's a good buy, and does the job of backing up all of your important data.

Excellent
I found the reviews of this drive useful so thought i'd add my own to help other people in the future.

I bought it about a month ago to back up my work and home computers and to allow me to easily transfer files onto the home desktop after reinstalling xp.

It worked straight away; XP installed drivers for it as soon as it was plugged in, so no need to use any of the software that comes with it.

Although not portable I did take it to work to make a back up copy of my hard drive. Transfer of 19gb took about 15-20minutes. I would not make a habit of moving the drive about for the afformentioned reasons.

The plug I got with it is kak. It has interchangable pins for seperate countries, I managed to snap the clip on the GB 3 pin, so have had to tape the the adaptor to the plug body with electrical tape. Not a problem, but this should not have been an issue.

Since then it has been great, although the real test will be time.