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.
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Great drive for Macs! Love it!
I’ve done a lot of research in purchasing an external drive for my iMac and this drive came as my #1 choice.
First of all I would like to address all the other reviewers saying they have problems with this product - please note that YOU MUST UPGRADE product’s firmware software [...]
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Nice drive but picture misleads
Having dealt only with seriously ghetto enclosures prior to this one, it was nice to get a drive of quality heft and construction. Install was a snap, and I got no complains on performance. Only quibble I have is that the drive I got is a more subdued blue, [...]
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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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Couldn’t be easier!
Paired with Apple’s Time Machine backup software (which is part of the current OS X.5 operating system), backup are a breeze! I bought this to use with my MacBook which lives in the living room most of the time but does move around. When I want to run a backup, I [...]
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Western Digital quality is unsurpassed!
Been using Western Digital drives in my 24/7/365 machines for a while and they are built like tanks. Low heat dissipation and quiet. SMART status alerts you to problems well before the dreaded crash. Keep up the good work WD!
Update (9/7/2010): This item is currently on sale here [...]
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Excellent drive
I bought this drive to replace my measly 30GB boot drive that came with my Dell. In order to replace your boot drive, you need to MOVE your OS to the new drive, and make it bootable. Simply dragging files won’t do it at all.
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big and quiet
This 250Gb drive replaced the original 80Gb drive in my G4 PB. The drive affords plenty of extra storage space and by thus adds some extra life to the machine. The reviewer who mentioned that the drive is noisy must have gotten a defective unit: my drive is as quiet as it could [...]
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Disk good, packing bad (no, make that bad/bad)
There IS a reason to buy RETAIL disks, not OEM disks, from Amazon, and that is the shipment’s packing.
Received this disk in a “standard” box (those just fine for BOOKS), with some brown paper wadded in along the SIDES of the disk’s own box. No [...]
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Unique ID isn’t unique
This is an OK enclosure to invest in if you are positive that you will never need more than one, but if you ever plan to add another, beware. MacAlly ships every unit with the exact same internal GUID, in violation of the FireWire standard. The GUID is supposed to [...]
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