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Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive
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| Price: | £59.07 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on orders over £15. Details |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #15 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
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Customer Reviews
Major, major risk
WD keep updating the outside of the box, but don't seem to have done anything about the fundamental problem which a lot of reviewers (including myself) have experienced: namely, after about 18 months you will get an I/O error, followed by clicks, followed by the disk being totally inaccessible. WD will provide a replacement, but all your data will be lost. This was a great storage solution until the day it died. As a permanent solution, experience has shown it to be unreliable.
Rock Solid
I just keep buying these!
Rock solid performance, easy set up. I now have 4 or 5 of these to store photos, videos and for backups of my laptop's hard drive.
No doubt I'll be buying a few more as and when my storage requirements dictate.
BEWARE the Click of Death!
Had this 6 months and it died suddenly - whenever I tried to connect it or power it up I got 3 slow clicking noises followed by 3 more then nothing....drive no longer found.
Whilst I had some DVD backups burned I was keen to try and get my most recent data off it. The recovery & replacement are expensive. WD support is automated and useless.
Luckily I found a method of getting the drive out of the case on Ransackery.com and while doing so noted that a large number of other owners have experienced the same problem. Turns out the power and USB connectors are less than robust according to posts on FixYa.
As a reasonably fearless person when it comes to opening up hardware I was able to recover everything and in fact I still use the internal disk drive itself as it's fine once connected to my PC which permanently has its case open anyway.
God forbid anyone non-technical should use this for backing up critical business data. I will steer well clear of WD products in future.
