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Western Digital My Book Studio Edition 500 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800/eSATA External Hard Drive WDH1Q5000N
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List Price: $174.99
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Manufacturer: Western Digital
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Western Digital
EAN: 0718037121383
Feature: Plug-and-play setup for easy installation
Hard Disk Size: 500
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Western Digital
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Model: WDH1Q5000N
Publisher: Western Digital
Special Features: nv:Capacity (GB)^500|Interface^USB 2.0/eSATA/FireWire|Spindle Speed (RPM)^7200|Buffer Memory^8MB|Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0^Up to 480 Mb/sec|Data Transfer Rate on FireWire^Up to 800 Mb/sec|Data Transfer Rate on Serial ATA^Up to 3000 Mb/sec|Temperature, Operating (°C)^5 to 35|Temperature, Nonoperating (°C)^-20 to 65|Type^Retail
Studio: Western Digital
Warranty: 5 years warranty
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Features
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Plug-and-play setup for easy installation
Automatically backs up important data, synchronizes files to keep them current
Compatible with USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800, and eSATA
Formatted for Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, can be reformatted for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
Turns itself on and off with your computer and Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written
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Editorial Reviews:
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Speed is what you need when for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and thats what this drive delivers with FireWire 800 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Simple, reasonable, works just fine.
Comment: I recently had "Leopard" installed on my iMac G5 and needed an external hard drive for the "Time Machine" feature to work more effectively.. My Mac consultant suggested the Western Digital as simple and sufficient for my needs. I bought it, installed it myself and am very pleased with its performance. And Amazon was "amazin'" as usual. Alan Zwiebel
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Summary: Terrible enclosure, good hard drive
Comment: I primarily got this to use as an eSata drive, and as an external eSata drive, it is absolutely terrible. For whatever reason, as others have mentioned, this drive periodically goes to 'sleep', and can thus disappear from Windows. The only way to bring it back is to restart. For that fact alone this drive should be avoided.
My only disclaimer is: the hard drive inside of this inferior enclosure is of normal WD quality (pretty good to great). If you have the know-how, open up the enclosure and either install the drive internally or buy another enclosure (that doesn't suck) and use that with the eSata connection. I received two of these drives as warranty replacements and, since they were essentially free, I tried both; ripped out both drives and installed one internally and one in an Antec MX1 enclosure. Both drives have been working with no problems since then.
Bottom line: Western Digital enclosures suck, but the hard drives are reliable (most of the time), so be prepared for pain if you buy one of these.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Confused
Comment: After I purchased Western Digital's My Book Studio Edition (500GB) external hard drive, I went to check whether it had actually backed up my data using Apple's Time Machine. When I tried to open any application from the external hard drive I got error code -10657. I called Western Digital and they said it was probably saving your data. I was uncomfortable with that response and I sent it back. I bought another hard drive (G Drive Q 500GB) and am getting the same error code. I am feeling that something else is going and the WD drive was probably fine. It seemed to be working when I first set it up and the company included all of the cables. I am giving one less star because of the "help" I got from the support person.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy on MAC....easy on PC
Comment: Its create, at home we have both MAC an PC, and it works create for both with out making partitions or give new format to the drive. How? We connected to our wireless network (Airport Extreme Base Station) via USB and it can be written for both systems.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Silent drive
Comment: Unlike some of the other My Books and despite saying on the box that it's XP/2000/vista ready, the studio is only plug and play on the Mac. Plug it directly in to a PC and it will not show up as a drive - but it will show in your hardware device listing perfectly fine. All you need to do is reformat it for 2000 or XP or NTFS or whathave you. This is really my only complaint as it takes a bit of time to format a 500 GB (real world 465.76 GB) drive.
Pros: Really silent and free of any vibrations. Not expensive.
Cons: The time required to reformat for PC.
Other Cons: This isn't about the drive but it's an annoyance: The WD web site- if you search for the KB 1550 article it gives you every INSTRUCTIONAL pdf which references the KB article but doesn't give you the KB article itself. (This KB article explains how to get the drive working on a PC.)
Here's a tip to save some time: go to the Knowledge Base, click on your product family, click on your product (in this case the studio edition) and THEN search for article 1550.
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