Posts Tagged 500gb

WD5000AAKB Western, Does the job

Does the job
This drive is exactly as advertised. It is a bare drive, no cables or mounting gear included (although you probably don’t need either). It does not include instructions either; so you should know what you are doing if you are buying this hardware. It is an excellent choice for an older computer.
Update (2/5/2012): [...]

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WDH1U5000N Western, V2.0 Of The My Book Series..

V2.0 Of The My Book Series Is Out - Will It Be More Reliable Than V1.0?
[Update: 3/2009: It's been more than a year since I wrote this lengthy review and I wanted to return and let people know how these drives are performing.
I have a total of ten of these drives - four [...]

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WDG1C5000N Western, Yes it works with power..

Yes it works with power strips, Yes it can be shared on a network!!
I’ve been using this drive for about a month now. BUY IT! I don’t know if there are some defective drives out there or what but several of the negative claims sounded very odd to me. The first thing I did when [...]

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ST305004FDA2E1-RK, Mac OS X 10.5 and your..

Mac OS X 10.5 and your external drive…
I ordered this drive because of the capacity and the price figuring that when it arrived I would simply reformat it as HFS+ and plug it into my Macintosh Network. The problem was that every time I tried to use Disk Utility to reformat it I kept getting [...]

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