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Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1TB USB 2.0 Firewire & eSata External Hard Drive | 
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| Category: CE
Buy New: £110.50
New (14) from £110.50
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 416
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 53.9 x 21.3 x 65.4
Model: WDH1CS10000E
UPC: 718037122823
EAN: 0718037122823
ASIN: B000W9KHOI
Release Date: October 7, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Backup software is full version not 30 day trial October 6, 2008
M. Davies (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So far so good. I just installed the drive painlessly via eSata, using the 3 cable supplied by Amazon (it does come with firewire, and usb cables), so it would be usable without. It does need to be firmly pushed in, but that is something you should expect to do with a drive cable. As for the performance, without any speed enhancements enabled for this drive, on eSata, I got a performance that was above those of the drives installed internally, using real world type testing.
Included software:
This comes as a bunch of installable items on the drive itself, rather than as a cd or dvd. If you want to reformat the drive, then you will need to burn these to a cd or copy to another HD first.
The included backup software is a full version. If those that complained about this were to click on the "buy now" button when the trial warning pops up, which it does on the first use, they will be sent to a page explaining that the product key needed to register the backup software is included in the packaging. This is a bit misleading because you may be inclined to think the number is the serial printed on the bottom of the Box.
However, If you look on the back of the large instruction sheet that comes with the drive you will find a white sticker with the aforementioned key stuck on just below the Technical support Services phone numbers.
One further thing to look out for, is that the instructions do quite clearly indicate the initial sequence of connecting up the drive (IE with PC powered off) - if your esata cable doesn't seem to work - maybe that's why. In addition, there is a power switch on the rear of the case that is easy to miss.
 A great external Hard Disk October 6, 2008
John Nunn (Coventry, U.K.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A superb external HDD, the array of conections means this drive can be used on virtually any computer straight out of the box, it is a real shame that an eSATA cable is not included where as both USB and Firewire cable are in the box.
The device is very much plug and play with no drivers needed. I have got one of these of these attached to my development PC and use it for storing Virtual PC images and as a scratch disk for animation work as well as video editing.
The included eSATA interface means the performance is good enough to run applications or virtual machines from.
eSata problem solved September 24, 2008
Pete (England)
For a long time I could not get my computer to recognise this disk on the eSata connector. I finally solved it by trimming down the outer collar of the eSata lead with a scalpel. It seems the MyBook case would not allow my eSata lead to enter fully to make contact. I trimmed of about 2.5mm all around and voila. I hope this helps someone.
Otherwise a nice quiet drive. Let me reinforce what others have said - any manufacturers drive can fail so BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA TO A DIFFERENT DEVICE and if it is really important keep a copy in another building.
 Problematic Firewire September 18, 2008
Tsonix (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I got the 'Home' edition to take advantage of a (faster than usb2) firewire connection.
In a nutshell, this drive cannot connect to a Mac via Firewire.
You can google to find several people with the same problem on WD drives. The drive connects ok with usb2, not with firewire.
The drive itself is not 'defective', I have managed to connect it via firewire by daisy-pairing it to a lacie firewire drive. It all points to a firewire power issue...
Firmware upgrade did nothing, unplugging the mac & all devices for 20 minutes did nothing. I have yet to try other suggestions like PRAM reseting.
But seriously... is WD asking users to be reseting PRAMs and unplugging devices etc.. just to connect the drive??
My lacie drive works fine out of the box, take notice WD...
Again, this drive will not connect 'out of the box' to a mac via firewire.
I recommend going for the usb2 only version, or another brand if you do want firewire on a mac.
Not the easiest thing to set up! August 22, 2008
Sparky Matthews (Lancashire, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First things first, I am not a technophobe. Nor am I a computer whizz kid. I place myself in the middle, Mr Average when it comes to all things that require input from the National Grid to get them whirring.
I bought this drive so that my main computer would not get bogged down with the storage demands of thousands of high quality music tracks (the high quality bit refers to the file size, not the quality of this author's musical tastes).
On connecting the drive to the computer via USB, the PC would not boot into Windows (I have good ole XP). Disconnecting the drive solved the problem. Bit of a small problem that, having to manually plug in the drive every time you wanted to use it, I thought.
After trawling through the Western Digital website I came across a fix. Apparently with many PCs, the USB Legacy has to be disabled in order for ones PC to boot into Windows when the drive has been attached. Quite a technical thing to do when these drives are supposed to be Plug and Play.
The good news is that I managed to circumvent this problem, so 99.9% of the Amazon buying population should be able to do the same.
Since connecting the drive, I've had no problems whatsoever - it really is a massive amount of disk space 1TB!
Recommended!
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