A good product and an even better price (Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 WDH1U10000 1 TB)

Member Name: JsonRenlan

Product:	Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 WDH1U10000 1 TB
Date:	05/09/08 (171 review reads)
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Advantages: Good quality, WD brand, nice design, very good price, silent, robust and resistent

Disadvantages: USB2.0 is relatively slow, formated as FAT32

The price is unbeatable given the capacity and the manufacturer's brand. Though is the cheap series of external HDDs from Western Digital the quality is very good. The drive looks good, nice glossy design and is solidly built. The install is straight forward, just plug it in and your PC should recognize right away. The drive is quiet (it makes some noise, but it isn't annoying at all) and runs relatively cool (my ex-external HDD from IOMEGA has way hotter even on mild usage).
The only issue is that the USB2.0 interface is not the fastest thing around, but it is ok for data backup and operations that do not require considerable speed ... if you want speed than your better off spending a couple more money on the edition that comes with eSATA. Also by default the drive was formated with FAT32 probably for compatibility reasons, but since I use it only with Windows Vista/2008 and occasionally XP I've reformated it with NTFS. Don't worry is a simple and fast process. Also due to the binary conversion the actual usable space when plugged in is 931 GB, but any 1TB HDD will show the same.
So just small nuisances, no serios cons. It's a great overall product, and the price is really good.

Summary: Just small nuisances, no serios cons. It's a great overall product, and the price is really good.

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