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Western Digital My Book  Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive
From Western Digital

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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #10 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

Editorial Reviews

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

  • External hard drive
  • USB cable
  • AC adapter
  • Quick Install Guide


  • Customer Reviews

    Superb!5
    Bought this quite awhile ago (several months back) and still using it. So far no problem at all. First of all, I don't need the software that comes with the harddisk, so I just format the entire disk with NTFS. The reason being that it will store longer file/folder name and bigger filesize limit. Apart from that, it's rock solid and relatively cheap comparing to other external USB drives. The HDD inside is a Maxtor.

    good drive BUT...4
    this is a awsome drive; small, quiet and good speeds. everything you could want! but do your self a favour and reformat the drives from FAT32 to NTFS! because you cant store a single file that exceeds 4gb with fat32. so if you have any large video files such as .mkv or .wmv-hd then your screwed. so just do it straight away. but sick drive all the same

    Review of External Hard Drive1
    I bought this product a few months ago and it has broken, I have been unable to get any of my files off of it and it would not even let me reformat it so I have had to bin it