Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB Review

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Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB
3.3 stars
Average rating for this product is: 3.3 out of 5

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Xbot's Review of Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB

25th Aug 2006

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Time External Device Owned
    1 - 6 Months
Good Points

500GB - wow!
Sleek, black case.
Stackable.
Gb per $ ratio is very good.
Shuts down with computer, and turns on with computer. Power button is easy to access.


Bad Points

No fan. For a 500Gb drive, it makes me wonder, though it still runs cool.
-USB transfer speed is SLOW, even on USB 2.
-You can't swap hard drives out, but that's not a big deal. It would still be cool though, being that the case is nice.
The software is garbage! Don't install it.


General Comments

Overall, the Western Digital My Book Essential 500Gb is a great piece of hardware. USB transfer speeds were slow, but worked.

I had to format it to NTFS. The software is total garbage, and it's just Google software, and not useful at all.

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