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Western Digital WDH1CS10000N My Book Home Edition 1 TB USB/Firewire/eSATA External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $399.99
Buy Used: $179.99
You Save: $220.00 (55%)
Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 1270
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Clothing Size: 1 TB
Size: 1 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDH1CS10000N
Model: WDH1CS10000N
UPC: 718037122816
EAN: 0718037122816
ASIN: B000WBJDUA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
E-SATA - USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 Interface
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 Failed right out of the box October 4, 2008
Scott W. Compton (Castro Valley, CA USA)
I purchased the 1TB unit for my Mac G5 Intel (OS X 10.5.5) and found immediately that it did not support the HFS+ (Journaled) format of my internal HD. Then, oh-lucky-me, I tried to look at it and repair if necessary with Apple's Disk Utility, and it said in bright red letters "Unable to verify disk" and the disk icon disappeared forever. Returned the sucker the next day. Now looking for a more compatible brand/unit.
Very good, but consider the bundled software October 1, 2008
T. Jagla
OK, from what I've read, you're going to be better off with the Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme. Why? Because from the research I've done, the backup software that comes with the Western Digital My Book Home Edition is only a 30 day trial version. I had a hard time finding thorough reviews of the latest hard drives (October 1, 2008). The Western Digital and Seagate models I've mentioned are pretty equally ranked. However, what sold me on the Seagate FreeAgent Extreme is that it has built-in software (not trial software) for backing up your data. That means no additional expense for the software. The reviews from various sources like PCworld.com, cnet.com, bit-tech.net, consumersearch.com, had good things to say about both the Western Digital and the Seagate hard drives that I've mentioned.
This obviously isn't a full review of this hard drive -I'm no computer guru, but the software package is very important to me and I thought this little bit of information might be helpful to someone else too.
The drive can be powered up after automatic standby September 29, 2008
LL
As another reviewer mentioned that the drive goes power down state and the drive letter in windows explorer just disappear and nothing can bring it back until recycle the power up/down. He also mentioned the reset button does not work.
But actually, the reset button on the back does work. The correct way is to push the button and hold it for a few seconds until you see the front light started brinking again. Then after a few seconds, windows will recognize the drive letter again....
However, I will rate this as 3 stars. The reason is I also encounter the drive goes into 'semi-'standby mode when I watched a movie directly off the drive and then I pause the movie. Then I came back after more than 10 mins. My Windows appeared to be freezed. The reason being I guess the drive just tried to sleep again even while some program is still accessing the drive.
So far, I have use the drive for about 5 months now. Still the drive is working. There are some clicking noise when I access files on the drive which I think.. is normal for any harddisk.
 perfectly happy so far September 14, 2008
gao (Puerto Rico)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have bought a few months ago a My Book 320 and I thought of getting something bigger this time.
Hooked it up to my iMac intel by firewire, and like his little brother did (though through USB that one) it worked immediately.
Chose it to be my Time Machine back-up drive and...voila' .... and by the way I love the ice-cold light in front, it's cool.
I'm surprised that this little fella has received so many bad reviews.
I was almost going to buy something else... but then I stuck to my previous positive experience with this product line and went for it. Although I bought it at Costco, just to make sure I could return it easily. ;-)
So far so good and gret value for money.
Maybe I am just lucky.
It is clear that if so many rotten apples have been shipped out... WD should get a new quality control manager in place rather quickly!
 OK September 6, 2008
Jerico Zavalahinojosa (Japan)
I have had the drive for 2 weeks and it works fine. I'am currently using the USB connection and it could be a lil faster, the disk takes some time to repond, maybe because its big. Other than that,the Hard drive is working fine for now and I recomend you get one.
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