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| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
Buy New: £51.00
New (27) from £51.00
Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 14
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
MPN: WDH1U5000E
Model: WDH1U5000E
UPC: 718037120928
EAN: 0718037120928
ASIN: B000WP0NM8
Release Date: November 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: new
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| Customer Reviews:
 BEWARE the Click of Death! August 13, 2008
Matteus
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Had this 6 months and it died suddenly - whenever I tried to connect it or power it up I got 3 slow clicking noises followed by 3 more then nothing....drive no longer found.
Whilst I had some DVD backups burned I was keen to try and get my most recent data off it. The recovery & replacement are expensive. WD support is automated and useless.
Luckily I found a method of getting the drive out of the case on Ransackery.com and while doing so noted that a large number of other owners have experienced the same problem. Turns out the power and USB connectors are less than robust according to posts on FixYa.
As a reasonably fearless person when it comes to opening up hardware I was able to recover everything and in fact I still use the internal disk drive itself as it's fine once connected to my PC which permanently has its case open anyway.
God forbid anyone non-technical should use this for backing up critical business data. I will steer well clear of WD products in future.
 Absolutely brilliant! August 2, 2008
Sue Whitehead (London)
My oldish PC (which runs XP) was really struggling as it was full to the gills with stuff, and I bought this to free up the hard drive. I have a load of photos and music on the PC now, although it was originally used just for Word and Excel documents.
Despite the reviews on here, I really doubted that the PC would be able to cope with an external hard drive.
But as soon as I connected it, it immediately recognised it, and I've had no trouble at all moving files over via Windows Explorer (I found it easiest to drag and drop, and then delete the files from the PC - cutting and pasting sometimes caused error messages to say a file was in use elsewhere).
It is all taking quite a while, but mainly due to the sheer volume of stuff I have to transfer.
Basically I'm delighted - so far!
I'm not too worried about the (surely very slight) risk of this hard drive failing as all my stuff is backed up on Carbonite anyway - I bought this solely to free up my PC but still have easy access to what is on it, which this does perfectly :)
I must also praise Amazon's Prime free trial - I ordered this product at 4.45pm one afternoon, and it arrived by Royal Mail at 9.30am the following morning - amazing!!!
 help with key code request July 28, 2008
K. F. Gibbons (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
great kit but I need key code to keep operating...its not on the box as is usual! Help anyone? Would have rate higher otherwise.
Superb! July 26, 2008
Chakrit Ratanamook (Manchester, UK)
Bought this quite awhile ago (several months back) and still using it. So far no problem at all. First of all, I don't need the software that comes with the harddisk, so I just format the entire disk with NTFS. The reason being that it will store longer file/folder name and bigger filesize limit. Apart from that, it's rock solid and relatively cheap comparing to other external USB drives. The HDD inside is a Maxtor.
good drive BUT... July 26, 2008
J. STAGG (LoNdOn)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is a awsome drive; small, quiet and good speeds. everything you could want! but do your self a favour and reformat the drives from FAT32 to NTFS! because you cant store a single file that exceeds 4gb with fat32. so if you have any large video files such as .mkv or .wmv-hd then your screwed. so just do it straight away. but sick drive all the same
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