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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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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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.
After unsuccessfully using Norton Ghost 9 [...]
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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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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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WARNING - not what the description says!
The description for this product says “Full kit includes drive cables, installation and management software, and illustrated instructions”. All I got was an OEM drive… just the drive with no cable, rails, software, instructions or anything else. I don’t know if an underpaid stockboy just screwed up [...]
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Western Digital Passport - A Great Value In Portable External HDs
The Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Midnight Black) is the largest capacity in the portable essentials line-up. This comes in a variety of colors including Pink, Real Red, Artic White and Intense Blue. They say that this [...]
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