Western Digital My Book Essential Edition WDG1U5000 500 GB

This is a 500GB hard drive from Western Digital, capable of storing anything you can store on your computer. That include photos, videos, music, documents, programs, games - you name it, this thing can hold it. It comes with a power cable and USB lead to connect it to your laptop or PC. One important factor to bear in mind is that you will definitely not get access to the full 500GB when you purchase this hard drive. In any other industry, you have a right to expect whatever quantity that is advertised in a sale will be what you receive - if a bottle of milk says two litres on it, it contains two litres. Unfortunately, for whatever reason the computer world is ...  Read the complete review

I first got my Western Digital My Book for a specific reason. It was christmas day, I just opened up an 80GB iPod and i was thnking great, I can put all my MP3's onto it and enjoy. Being the IT person I am i needed to make sure I had a system in place for a neat setup, because storing 80GB of music in an iTunes folder in My Documents was not practical, would make backing up My Documents a nightmare, meaning it wouldn't happen, meanig I could loose data if my hard drive died. Further to that I knew that adding all my CD's etc would mean very quickly to get over 80GB of music, and my C Drive on my main laptop could not cope with that, as it was only ...  Read the complete review

General Western Digital specialises in producing external hard drives therefore their products are of good quality. The My Book Essential offers 500Gb which is more than enough for a standard user (Family usage). You can back up your pictures, videos, documents and programs without running out of space. Design The HD has a slick design and the shape of a book; it is small however not small enough to be a portable hard drive. But this is not meant to be one so when you consider buying this HD think of it as your home HD. Performace It is fast and reacts accoring to the computer - when system is being shut down the external HHD ...  Read the complete review