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: #5 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

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

WD External Good
Owned it for a month now.

Review: Simple and looks good on my desk.

Light goes through the whole case to other side, a little distracting.

Simple plug and play, I don't use the 'safely remove' hardware at all, I just unplug whenever the HD is not busy.

Had an older 250gb version of this one (now memory is full) and that has worked well. (Transported in baggage several times)

Recommendation: Format to NTFS (allows transfer of much larger files).

Problems: Tried to transfer from the external hard drive to DVD of a large file, 15 min into transfer the external hard drive made a really high pitched noise for 30 sec, I turned it over and shook it slightly, the noise went away and I finished my transfer. (this was before the format to NTFS)HOWEVER I then needed to put this file from DVD to a computer and it came up with I/O error.

A very nice piece of kit
I spent a lot of time reading reviews from various sites about different makes and models of external HDD. In the end I took the plunge and went for the Western Digital 500GB model. I have to say it has been simplicity itself to get it up and running. I took the previous reviewer's advice and didn't bother with the software packages. I did use the PDF manual and found the links to the support site useful, especially when it came to looking for instructions on how to reformat the drive into NTFS; it comes pre-formatted in FAT32. The drive powers up with my PC and closes down when I log-off, it is very quiet and if it wasn't for the two LEDs on the from I wouldn't know it was operating. I'm a very happy bunny.

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.